• @Pipoca
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    01 year ago

    Why is having housing in flux a bad thing?

    The goal should be to have affordable housing and low homeless rates.

    Why should my goal be for each apartment to be moved into the day the previous occupant moves out? What’s the point?

    Do you think those houses would’ve gotten so run down if there was soneone living in them to see the need and do maintenance?

    I don’t think you understand that category of vacancies. Vacancies under repair isn’t “long term vacant buildings that needs repairs to become livable again”, its “any building currently being repaired or renovated that doesn’t have people actively living in it”.

    My sister’s house, for example, was vacant for a couple months when she renovated her kitchen. It was owner- occupied just before the renovation and just after, but it was vacant during the renovation because she temporarily moved in with my parents.

    After natural disasters, there’s often a lot of housing that’s vacant under repair.

    • @MotoAsh
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      1 year ago

      If you don’t understand the fundamental difference between a house that is rented and one that is owned, I really do not know what to say. You do not care if people own their own value. Sad.

      • @Pipoca
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        11 year ago

        What are you even talking about?

        You originally said

        Fuck the realestate industry period. It shouldn’t be commodified to the point where there are more empty houses up for rent, airbnb, or sitting empty as “investments” than there are homeless.

        Yes, there’s more apartments sitting empty for a month or two than there are homeless people.

        There are fewer apartments for rent sitting empty for a year or more than there are homeless people.

        How exactly are you proposing that we fix the homelessness crisis with apartments sitting empty for a month?

        Owner-occupied housing is great. The only person who brought it up before this was me, when I pointed out that some vacant homes are actually owner-occupied.