• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Its the big reset. All those who voted Republican just waiting to be able to afford a house…meanwhile getting layer off. They don’t realize that if there are 5 people an 4 houses then 1 goes without a house no matter what. The solution is not to burn down the other 4 houses or to layoff the other 4 people so they call all fight to stay in their home. The solution is to build more homes! Plain and simple. And migrants can help!

    • MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      There are currently more empty homes in the US than there are homeless people. There are roughly 30 empty units for each homeless person.

      • PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works
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        10 hours ago

        There are currently more empty homes in the US than there are homeless people. There are roughly 30 empty units for each homeless person.

        There are plenty of entire ghost towns they can move into for free right now, but nobody will because the housing needs to be near the jobs.

        Some of those units are being renovated, some are in the process of being sold or leased, some are being lived in but the owners are on vacation. The latter is especially true for summer homes, which are empty most of the year but wouldn’t be useful to homeless people because they’re nowhere near the jobs - that’s the point of a holiday home!

        Seriously, if it were just homes then you can get something really basic for $20k. The real problem is the land and the permission to build.