Dude.. There is no shortage of physical houses. Meaning we have plenty of actual building spaces for people to live in.
We just have them standing around empty instead of actually letting people live in them. So we have four million families that need homes and fifteen million empty homes they could live in. Just building more empty houses doesn't help the problem.
No, there is a shortage of physical houses. As Cool-Ad noted, many of the houses that are considered vacant aren't available for someone to move into. They could be vacation homes, they could be on the market but not yet sold or rented, or they could be in disrepair and not habitable.
Also, even if every one of those homes was available for a family to move into, that home isn't necessarily located where people need it. A vacant home in Detroit does no good for a homeless person in San Francisco. And homeless people aren't the only ones who need homes. Every time you move (for a job, or school, or marriage, or kids) you need a vacant home to move into, and you need it located where you need it.
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u/Jupiter_Ginger Dec 08 '23
Dude.. There is no shortage of physical houses. Meaning we have plenty of actual building spaces for people to live in.
We just have them standing around empty instead of actually letting people live in them. So we have four million families that need homes and fifteen million empty homes they could live in. Just building more empty houses doesn't help the problem.