Nowhere near that amount of people was actually added to the population that would need housing.
Not to mention the fact that there are over 11 million year-round vacant properties in the US, 6.7 million of which are simply held off the market, and 3.1 million are for rent, but not receiving any tenants year round (a tactic often used to artificially keep rents high for surrounding properties)
There’s also an additional 3.5 million homes that are “seasonal” properties, (i.e. vacation homes) that are still perfectly good for housing human beings, but are only actually used for part of the year.
There are an estimated 662,000 unhoused people in the United States, (Including those already in temporary shelters) so only a fraction of the available empty housing would completely house every homeless person in the United States.
The problem isn’t a made up “crisis” from immigrants, it’s a lack of care for other human beings that drives landlords, property investors, and multi-home owning individuals to hoard housing that people need to survive.
Bullshit. Democrats are just as hawkish on the border as Republicans, they just pretend they’re not once every 2 years.
We have a shortage of livable housing because we refuse to allow it to be built. There’s plenty of room for people, just not if we mandate that each dwelling is single-family with a 20-foot buffer space between them.
Missed opportunity to say “Buy us lunch and we’ll talk about it” or some other free shit.
has anyone ever proposed taxing second homes at 10,000%
Because it’s good for people to be able to rent a house, and we already subside home ownership enough in the US
it’d be easier to rent a house if they weren’t all owned by a few rich people, silly
At least in the US, most of Congress has at least 2 homes so they probably won’t agree to it. But now I’m curious how many of them are in on this racket, too, and have 3 or more.
People who own homes should start buying each others’ homes at a fraction of their estimated value to drive the market down. And then rent them to each other for the price of the mortgage so rental prices go down too.
The other night some guy was tagging along with me after I left the bar, at one point he got to be annoying enough that I decided to removedhim by pretending to pull a knife on him but it was just a lighter. MFer almost shat himself and I wish I coulda taken a picture because his reaction was priceless. This is entirely unrelated to this post and I just thought it was funny. I am entirely unresponsible for how you use this information.
Edit: I have no idea how that got censored but it makes it funnier so I am leaving it.
I’m assuming a word that’s synonymous with ”to scare” but is also a racial slur.
