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Sandro Linux to World News@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago

Joe Biden wants more people to start living in empty offices

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Joe Biden wants more people to start living in empty offices

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Sandro Linux to World News@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago
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The White House has come up with a plan to encourage developers to turn unwanted office space into apartments.
  • @Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world
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    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

    • @Destraight@lemm.ee
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      Where did you get those numbers from? Where is your source?

      • @Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world
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        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

        • @Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
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          16•2 years ago

          There’s no kill like overkill lmao

        • @1847953620@lemmy.world
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          5•2 years ago

          Thanks Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug

    • @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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      6•2 years ago

      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?

    • @kibiz0r@midwest.social
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      2 years ago

      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

    • Grant_M
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      1•2 years ago

      Greedy real estate hogs and speculators are criminals imo.

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