Fact Check

Based on currently available numbers, there are about 31 vacant housing units for every homeless person in the U.S.

      • version_unsorted@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        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.

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          8 months ago

          Sure, why dont you start one and give away your labor to people that dont want to work as much as you?

          • jorp
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            8 months ago

            If you don’t want to participate in a market system why do you not simply die?

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              8 months ago

              Because I dont want to die. If there were no market system how would you get food and survive?

              • jorp
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                8 months ago

                Do you think market economies are the only kind humanity has ever had?

                  • jorp
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                    8 months ago

                    Consider the thread we’re in. Housing perhaps should not be market driven

        • bamfic
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          8 months ago

          a homeless person could live there and not be homeless anymore

          • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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            8 months ago

            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.

            • Katana314
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              8 months ago

              The homeless guy.

              It is tough sometimes. It is not a full-time job.

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                8 months ago

                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?