Where to buy home in a recession

The link gives a map of the places to buy homes in 6 major USA cities. The suggestions are based on the expectations regarding the effect on the economy of these cities and data in the last 2 months.

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/real_estate/0804/gallery.best_buy_home.moneymag/3.html

Any decision-making process such as buying a home, involves besides taking personal factors in consideration to include macroeconomic criteria as well. Due to the recession in the house market, therefore the weights for the macroconomic criteria have become higher. The CNN article has evaluated the houses on one simple criteria: The 6 cities where home prices are likely to rise the most - or fall the least - in the next 12 months.