The only statistic that matters is sold not occupied and even that is only useful if it excludes houses that just haven’t been moved into yet.
The majority of those figures are just showing that houses are unoccupied in resort towns because there’s nothing there half the year or that houses sit empty for a month while a new renter is sorted out or a new owner is moving in.
We don’t need to shove the homeless into a remote resort town where they have no access to services - we need more housing in our cities where support networks can help those in need.
The fact is that there arent enough houses to house every homeless person in the USA and maintain sufficient housing stock for people to move houses.
Anything below a 5% vacancy rate is considered a housing shortage - it indicates there’s too much demand for housing and not enough supply.
Very few American cities are sitting at or above 5% vacancy.
Yup, your first 2 paragraphs are touched on in the link.
Also agree on your other points. I wonder how many basic functioning towns we could build for what we spend assisting or harassing the homeless and the migrants… I feel it should be straightforward to get them integrated into the economy with an organized boost in resources made in a holistic approach.
What we do with unhoused mentally ill or ones that are homeless by choice is well beyond what I’m qualified to discuss, but I imagine the bulk would welcome being helped constructively.
The only statistic that matters is sold not occupied and even that is only useful if it excludes houses that just haven’t been moved into yet.
The majority of those figures are just showing that houses are unoccupied in resort towns because there’s nothing there half the year or that houses sit empty for a month while a new renter is sorted out or a new owner is moving in.
We don’t need to shove the homeless into a remote resort town where they have no access to services - we need more housing in our cities where support networks can help those in need.
The fact is that there arent enough houses to house every homeless person in the USA and maintain sufficient housing stock for people to move houses.
Anything below a 5% vacancy rate is considered a housing shortage - it indicates there’s too much demand for housing and not enough supply.
Very few American cities are sitting at or above 5% vacancy.
Yup, your first 2 paragraphs are touched on in the link.
Also agree on your other points. I wonder how many basic functioning towns we could build for what we spend assisting or harassing the homeless and the migrants… I feel it should be straightforward to get them integrated into the economy with an organized boost in resources made in a holistic approach.
What we do with unhoused mentally ill or ones that are homeless by choice is well beyond what I’m qualified to discuss, but I imagine the bulk would welcome being helped constructively.