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Homelessness is not just about a lack of housing right? There are more than 13 million vacant homes in the US: https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/current
by alex_young 5y ago
Homelessness is not just about a lack of housing right?
There are more than 13 million vacant homes in the US: https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/currenthvspress.pdf https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/currenthvspress.pdf
Seems like it’s a matter of public policy that we can’t find a place for half a million people to live.
- frankbreetz 5y agoI've heard this before, I wonder how much of this a simple 1-2 month vacancy between tenets and how much is actually people owning buildings and not renting them out. It seems like a large portion is short term vacancies. Owning an empty building seems like a bad investment when you could rent it out and make much more money.
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- runarberg 5y agoI guess this would be an easy question to answer. Just collect data on how long each house stays vacant, you can get e.g. the average time a house in Baltimore will stay vacant, which type of house and which neighborhood is more likely to stay vacant longer, etc. I did a quick google search for some summary on this statistic, but found nothing (unsurprisingly since I have never done this kind of research before). Since this is HN I’m sure if there is will somebody can provide us with a summary—or at least an answer—of whether this is the case.