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Joe Biden wants more people to start living in empty offices (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

According the the last census there are 15.1 million houses and apartments sitting empty in the US, roughly 29 properties for every one unhoused person in America.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I looked it said 13.9 million. But how many of those are habitable? Does that number include Airbnbs? Properties stuck in probate or the foreclosure process? How many of them are in senior communities that don't allow younger people or families? The census data doesn't specify any of that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's true, there might only be as few as 15 vacant properties for every person we are currently allowing to freeze to death.