• ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    Not really. Major US cities have extremely low vacancy rates. Technically there are more “empty houses” than homeless people, but those houses are in places people don’t live, only temporarily empty between residents, or so run down they aren’t livable. If I live in New York City an empty house in Buttfuck, Kansas isn’t particularly helpful.

    • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      9 months ago

      Yup a huge number of those “empty houses” are vacation properties.

      And as much as that probably trips flags about being owned by rich people that’s not the reality a lot of the time.

      I promise you there aren’t a lot of people, even homeless people, that want to live full time in an unwinterized cabin with no cell service or internet a 30 minute drive from the nearest small town grocery store.

      • StellarTabi [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        9 months ago

        I promise you there aren’t a lot of people, even homeless people, that want to live full time in an unwinterized cabin with no cell service or internet a 30 minute drive from the nearest small town grocery store.

        literally me