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There is already an order of magnitude more unused housing than unhoused people- the problem is that the market is involved and that requires winners and losers.
That's why you have people dying of exposure in the richest country in the history of the world. God damn america.
G-give....away? N-n-no money for me?? But money me, now. Money now. Money! House = money! Empty house, no money is ok, full house no money NOT OK!
CoMmUnIsM!!!
-Landleeches
Land of the free. Free to sleep under any bridge that isn't spiked.
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."
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Throw in unaddressed mental health and drug crises.
Not only that - they’re dying in the street immediately adjacent to vacant luxury condos.
It's off the aggregate numbers. I'm sure that there's a lot of useless suburban sprawl pumping the numbers up. The "most efficient system" is an abject failure when it comes to housing people unless the only metric you care about is revenue generation for shithead inheritors.