I've seen the stats on number of houses vis a vis population. The US does not have a housing shortage. There are plenty of houses, and the ratio of houses to people is as high as it's ever been. What we have is a vacancy crisis: On the higher end, it's residential properties being scarfed up by investors and either left empty as an auxiliary savings account, or turned into short-term vacation rentals... and on the low end, houses that've been trashed by squatters while they were tied up in legal squabbles, and entire neighborhoods that've been abandoned by law enforcement, so that they are basically unlivable.
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Re: houses/drug users
Date: 2024-05-23 10:25 pm (UTC)I've seen the stats on number of houses vis a vis population. The US does not have a housing shortage. There are plenty of houses, and the ratio of houses to people is as high as it's ever been. What we have is a vacancy crisis: On the higher end, it's residential properties being scarfed up by investors and either left empty as an auxiliary savings account, or turned into short-term vacation rentals... and on the low end, houses that've been trashed by squatters while they were tied up in legal squabbles, and entire neighborhoods that've been abandoned by law enforcement, so that they are basically unlivable.