“There are currently 28 vacant homes for every one person experiencing homelessness in the U.S.”
landlords dont provide shit, they hoard properties and make it harder for non-landlords to get housing, which drives up prices and forces more people to live on the streets.
they are a leech on society, making everything worse for the rest of us.
The article you linked is misleading. Houses are vacant for various reasons. Some are temporarily vacant:
some are undergoing renovations
some are between tenants
some are for sale
Some are more permanently vacant because they’re in such a state of disrepair that they can’t be lived in.
Rental property owners rent out properties, which keeps people housed and off the streets. However there’s been a lack of housing development over the past decade in the United States which leads to a housing shortage.
The homeowners who let their house rot because they couldn’t afford to fix it or they just didn’t care? There’s been so many foreclosures that were blights on the neighborhood until investors bought them, fixed them up, and rented them to families who wanted a nice place to live.
Rental properties aren’t hidden. There’s no cloak of invisibility spell surrounding them. So your definition doesn’t apply.
Rental properties aren’t empty except during renovation or between tenants. So your second assertion also doesn’t apply.
https://unitedwaynca.org/blog/vacant-homes-vs-homelessness-by-city/
“There are currently 28 vacant homes for every one person experiencing homelessness in the U.S.”
landlords dont provide shit, they hoard properties and make it harder for non-landlords to get housing, which drives up prices and forces more people to live on the streets.
they are a leech on society, making everything worse for the rest of us.
Again, there’s no hoarding.
The article you linked is misleading. Houses are vacant for various reasons. Some are temporarily vacant:
Some are more permanently vacant because they’re in such a state of disrepair that they can’t be lived in.
Rental property owners rent out properties, which keeps people housed and off the streets. However there’s been a lack of housing development over the past decade in the United States which leads to a housing shortage.
Gee, I wonder who’s responsibility it was to make sure that didn’t happen. ¯\(ツ)/¯
The homeowners who let their house rot because they couldn’t afford to fix it or they just didn’t care? There’s been so many foreclosures that were blights on the neighborhood until investors bought them, fixed them up, and rented them to families who wanted a nice place to live.