I’m finding it hard to believe all of them would pass any sort of inspection to live in. The author might be confusing real-estate properties for homes. Not to say they’re empty lots, I’m sure there is a structure on site but from my anecdotal experience of vacant homes, they won’t provide any more protection from the weather than a cardboard box. I’m not even talking about crackhouses in a cirty or anything either. I’m saying in rural America if granny doesn’t die till 90 that house hasn’t been worked on for 40 years and is always in need of more work than the entire property is worth.
Edit: Yeah I missed where it even has the audacity to list Detroit as having the most 🤣 the author is clickbaiting the fuck out of this stat if they think even 20% of the vacant homes in Detroit are livable.
Fuck it edit 2: The real article should have been about how there is only twice as many homeless as there are fucking tax exempt churches. So two. Two fucking homeless people per church thst doesn’t pay a fucking lick of taxes. Don’t have any references or articles on this, I saw it posted on Lemmy tho like a month ago.
Yea, but even if only 5% of them are livable that’s still enough to cover everyone. I also think it says something that there are that many houses no one is doing anything with while developers are constantly building new homes. (or worse entire neighborhoods of tiny homes…)
I’m finding it hard to believe all of them would pass any sort of inspection to live in. The author might be confusing real-estate properties for homes. Not to say they’re empty lots, I’m sure there is a structure on site but from my anecdotal experience of vacant homes, they won’t provide any more protection from the weather than a cardboard box. I’m not even talking about crackhouses in a cirty or anything either. I’m saying in rural America if granny doesn’t die till 90 that house hasn’t been worked on for 40 years and is always in need of more work than the entire property is worth.
Edit: Yeah I missed where it even has the audacity to list Detroit as having the most 🤣 the author is clickbaiting the fuck out of this stat if they think even 20% of the vacant homes in Detroit are livable.
Fuck it edit 2: The real article should have been about how there is only twice as many homeless as there are fucking tax exempt churches. So two. Two fucking homeless people per church thst doesn’t pay a fucking lick of taxes. Don’t have any references or articles on this, I saw it posted on Lemmy tho like a month ago.
Yea, but even if only 5% of them are livable that’s still enough to cover everyone. I also think it says something that there are that many houses no one is doing anything with while developers are constantly building new homes. (or worse entire neighborhoods of tiny homes…)
Subway stations and freeway underpasses also don’t pass inspection to live in.
You nailed it with the church thing though!
Yah, this one sounded like bullshit from the start.