There are 16,000,000 empty homes and 500,000 homeless. Office buildings aren’t going to be solving any real problem other than the people who own the building being shit out of luck
Please don’t provide this stat without context. It just promotes cynicism and despair. Reality is complex, and our solutions are going to have to be complex.
Many of these vacant homes are nowhere near major homeless populations. But office buildings often are.
There are 16,000,000 empty homes and 500,000 homeless. Office buildings aren’t going to be solving any real problem other than the people who own the building being shit out of luck
Where did you get those numbers from? Where is your source?
https://www.gao.gov/homelessness#:~:text=Issue Summary,factors like higher rental prices.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/business/economy/us-homeless-population-count.html
https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness/
https://www.datapandas.org/ranking/homeless-population-by-state
https://www.security.org/resources/homeless-statistics/#:~:text=582%2C462 individuals are experiencing homelessness,experiencing chronic patterns of homelessness.
https://todayshomeowner.com/general/guides/national-homeless-facts-and-statistics/#:~:text=Key Homelessness Statistics and Facts for 2023,-Globally%2C 1.6 billion&text=In America%2C 582%2C462 individuals are,complete census conducted in 2020.
www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/report-how-many-homes-are-sitting-empty-in-your-state/amp/
www.forbes.com/sites/brendarichardson/2022/03/07/16-million-homes-lie-empty-and-these-states-are-the-vacancy-hot-spots/amp/
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-vacant-homes-are-there-in-the-us/#:~:text=According to the Census Bureau,vacant homes nationwide in 2022.
https://www.nar.realtor/magazine/real-estate-news/16-million-homes-vacant-in-us
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/05/vacant-seasonal-housing.html
There’s no kill like overkill lmao
Thanks Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug
Are they were they are needed? Would we need to move people across the county to fill them? Or are they kept mostly empty as a form of storing wealth?
Please don’t provide this stat without context. It just promotes cynicism and despair. Reality is complex, and our solutions are going to have to be complex.
Many of these vacant homes are nowhere near major homeless populations. But office buildings often are.
https://ggwash.org/view/73234/vacant-houses-wont-solve-our-housing-crisis
Edit: If you prefer videos, here’s a good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xZXdXxYBGU
Greedy real estate hogs and speculators are criminals imo.