In this eye-opening video, we dive deep into the striking statistic that suggests there are 27 empty houses for every homeless person in the United States. W...
  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    1·
    1 month ago

    I’m not sold on this as a metric because it’s comparing the ratio of two bad things

    Like, if homelessness started going down, then we would have 50 empty homes for every homeless person. Oh no! Things got even more unequal!

    Homelessness is bad + empty homes because of equity real estate are bad. Just bring them both down. We can still have 27 homes per person and there be 100 homeless people and 2,700 empty homes.