- cross-posted to:
- housing_bubble_2
- cross-posted to:
- housing_bubble_2
Based on currently available numbers, there are about 31 vacant housing units for every homeless person in the U.S.
Based on currently available numbers, there are about 31 vacant housing units for every homeless person in the U.S.
Looking at the vacancy data:
https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/currenthvspress.pdf
… it seems as though the vast majority of vacant homes are rentals looking for tenants, rather than rich peoples second homes.
Make of that what you will.
They’re the same picture.
So who owns these rental homes but is living elsewhere? Perhaps rich people looking to make cash on their second homes while they dont use them?
Landlords are scum.
If you want to rent whom should you rent from?
There should be options other than renting and owning. If you don’t wish to own property there should still be housing available to you, but it doesn’t need to be rented from a landlord, it could be collectively owned (by tenants), municipal ownership, or something else. Relying on people with capital to provide housing while profiting from your need for housing is a broken system.
Sure, why dont you start one and give away your labor to people that dont want to work as much as you?
If you don’t want to participate in a market system why do you not simply die?
Because I dont want to die. If there were no market system how would you get food and survive?
Do you think market economies are the only kind humanity has ever had?
No, but how is a market economy worse than what people did in the past?
A basement suite isn’t a vacant home when it’s not being rented.
a homeless person could live there and not be homeless anymore
True! What’s your point?
Someone putting a basement suite in their home isn’t removing a purchasable dwelling from the market, it’s adding to the number of available dwellings.
Then who fixes and maintains it?
The homeless guy.
It is tough sometimes. It is not a full-time job.
Oh that is funny. Normal renters dont take care of a unit let alone a person that is homeless. And many problems are out of the ability of almost everyone. Is the homeless person going to replace the HVAC system?
“HR needs you to spot the difference between these two pictures.”
Rentals looking for tenants
Rich peoples second homes
“They’re the same picture.”
And behind Door Number 2, we have:
“There’s not a joblessness crisis, there’s a labor shortage. We offered free pizza on fridays for this unpaid Senior Graphic Designer internship, and we’re still not getting applicants”
Are they homes in the places people want to live? Vacancies in Bumfuck, OK don’t help homeless people in Chicago.
You’re just also saying the “free market” does a poor job of providing for the needs of the people. A socialist government would build homes where they’re needed
Sure. The problem I’m seeing here is how people approach the solution. You can tax the hell out of vacancies everywhere, but it’s not going to help if there are no vacancies in specific cities.