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  • SlippiHUD@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    3 hours ago

    There are a surpluss of houses in the us, because private equity is hoarding it. The total number of vacant houses has gone up every year since 2009.

    Clearly there isnt a population explosion making the housing supply tight and overall empty houses that becoming occupied are being replaced with the now empty house they just moved out of.

    And the empty house to homeless person ratio has been trending up for nearly 2 decades.


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    8 hours ago

    Empty houses are relatively spread out pretty evenly. As in there are always more empty houses than homeless people.

    There’s an average of 38 empty houses per homeless person in the US. California has the lowest ratio and it is still 6 empty houses per homeless person.

    Mississippi has the highest ratio with 205 empty houses per homeless person.