Fact Check

Based on currently available numbers, there are about 31 vacant housing units for every homeless person in the U.S.

    • version_unsorted@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      There should be options other than renting and owning. If you don’t wish to own property there should still be housing available to you, but it doesn’t need to be rented from a landlord, it could be collectively owned (by tenants), municipal ownership, or something else. Relying on people with capital to provide housing while profiting from your need for housing is a broken system.

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        4 months ago

        Sure, why dont you start one and give away your labor to people that dont want to work as much as you?

        • jorp@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          If you don’t want to participate in a market system why do you not simply die?

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            4 months ago

            Because I dont want to die. If there were no market system how would you get food and survive?

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                    4 months ago

                    Do you really want government provided housing? The ones I am aware of are places like the projects and were the worst place to live (unless you were a drug dealer).

        • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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          4 months ago

          True! What’s your point?

          Someone putting a basement suite in their home isn’t removing a purchasable dwelling from the market, it’s adding to the number of available dwellings.

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              4 months ago

              Oh that is funny. Normal renters dont take care of a unit let alone a person that is homeless. And many problems are out of the ability of almost everyone. Is the homeless person going to replace the HVAC system?