Fact Check

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

  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    There’s plenty of room; we just build nothing but luxury housing. And there’s an over-abundance of parking lots because of land speculation. Our land is not being used efficiently at all.

    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Are you finding homeless people somewhere I’m not? The downtown metro areas are where there is a) not other housing by and large, and b) not space for anything else anyway. Maybe we are talking past each other.

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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        4 months ago

        I’m in downtown Los Angeles. We have lots of homeless people, vacant housing, and wasted space like paved parking lots. Where are you?

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          4 months ago

          Midwest, below Chicago burbs. We have in my area way way way more housing demand than supply and houses sell before market or within hours. We have some here and there homelessness but it’s never as bad as streets of downtown Chicago, where parking spaces cost as much as houses.