No, it's the consequences of capitalism.

There are over 15 million empty houses in America, over 5 million of those are in the 50 largest metropolitan areas of the US.

770,000 people were counted as houseless in 2024.

Sure not every house is in great condition, and not every house is in a major city - but there is surely enough that people could use to if not house everyone, at the very least make a huge dent in that figure. The issue is people cannot afford to buy them because housing is seen as an industry not a basic life need.

There is enough housing. It sits unoccupied and sometimes disrepair.

• Crack down on price fixing
• Don't let corporations run AirBNBs or similar
• Don't let corporations own any rental building under approximately 10 units.
• Don't let rental buildings have more than a low percentage of empty units for turn around. They have to lower the rent then. If it goes to $200/month, then so be it.

There are so many things to try, but Trickle Down Housing never works.

That is not the consequence of enough housing. It's from wealth hoarding.

A lack of housing is not the problem most places. The problem is that housing shifted from being a place for people to live to a way for people to acquire "passive income". Hell, the very design of housing changed in a noticeable way: houses shifted from being homes to being feature laden investment vehicles.

Damn that backpack looking spacious af

I'm not really buying the no housing thing now. The thing is, it turned into a commodity. If you just build more, then those with all the money (because that gap is pretty damn vast nowadays) will just buy and hold and rent them

Wait till air comes next, or some stupid ass shit.

Not a shitpost

IMO: do what Vienna is doing: state provided apartments and flats, competing with everyone else. Try price fixing now, corpos. If Vienna did not have this, it would be at the same level as other european metropolises.

Edit: typo

Building it isn't the problem. My Republican shithole burb just bulldozed the last of our open space, to build 600 single family units starting in the "low one millions." Can't afford that? No problem. They're also building 2000 condos, starting in "the mid 500s."

Starting to see the real problem?

Comparing the datasets reveals that there is an average of 45.9 vacant homes per homeless person in the U.S. in 2023, this has increased from 41 in 2010. Mississippi has the highest number of vacant homes to homeless people, with 204.7 vacant homes per one person experiencing homelessness, which is 346% higher than the U.S. average.

Yea, the problem is capitalism.

Residential housing shouldn't be owned by corporations. It should be built by them and then sold to individuals.

Haha

I was just watching a YT travelogue of a US guy in his 50s (Gen X) who was travelling the world frugally with a backpack because he can't afford rent in the US. He had some investments and spent less travelling then working and living in the US, so his investments have grown in the 3 yrs he's done this.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuNKV0CMgcVUiJNdA-JNlJA

Plent of US retirees in Cambodia for the same reaon, can't afford the US anymore.

2030 is more like ⚰️

After the embarrassment of the last ten years, and the ongoing embarrassment until the fat orange child rapist dies, then I'd say getting a backpack and leaving the Nazied States of America is probably the best move.

Obviously fake and misrepresented. The paint isn't peeling off that van.

How about taxing owners of unoccupied homes?

In Europe we have already achieved the backpack level. We are winning. 💪

The consequences of letting companies buy up residential homes.

....you cross-posted from "Neoliberal" and tried to pass it off as a shitpost? For fucks sake. They're not even trying anymore. At least we don't have to look at a pedophile in this particular political post. Are the mods ever going to do something about this shit?

Another cyberpunk come true scenario that involves absolutely no cool cybernetics

There's plenty of housing, it's just not profitable to let people live there, so obviously it's better to just leave it all empty.

Ha!

I went from #3 in the 80s to #4, then to #1 in the mid 1990s.

I don't think it matters where you start, what bothers me so much more is the lack of opportunity to move up this chart now. I knew, in my heart, that if I sold out and worked someplace evil I could have the big money, and what's more, even without doing evil I could have the small money by following the steps - go to school, get a job.

I don't feel like younger people have that. It always took some degree of luck, but more like bad luck would set you back. Now it's more like you need good luck just to get started!