5.6 million vacant homes and counting: There is a massive housing crisis brewing in America
5.6 million vacant homes and counting: There is a massive housing crisis brewing in America
America could be in the middle of a major housing crisis, especially in the key metropolitan regions of the country, and there is a need to address and resolve it at the earliest, as things could disrupt the housing market at any time. Housing crunch and rental availability are some of the key facto...
i wouldn't say brewing so much as has boiled over and exploded all over the kitchen 15 years ago, dried, and now the entire place is sticky and smells like a sewage pipe backed up.
the phenomenon of "people can't live where they work" has metastasized and spread to hundreds if not thousands of small communities, where the provisioning of labor for essential services in a location does not pay enough for the people providing that labor to reside in that community. so there's a cascading effect of people who live in City A being served by people who live in Town B (with less functional services), who receive services from people in Town C with each town being more destitute and broke with worse services. and I don't even mean like just hospitality people which has been a problem for much longer, I mean like nurses, city workers, teachers, various professionals. All these people providing essential work to a place are commuting from outside the boundary, where there is worse infrastructure/services just so they can find affordable housing and attempt to build some kind of equity after a decade of working. all so they can feel like that equity provides them agency in how they might retire, because unless you "own" your residence, your ability to persists in a place is at the whims of someone else.
I want to nail your comment onto buildings all over America.
That’s a lot of vacant homes. How many people are unsheltered? That might help fill them.
america would burn every vacant home to the ground before giving them to the homeless
a visible dehumanized example of what can happen to you if you don't please your boss is the beating heart of the american organism
America won’t burn the homes. Don’t be ridiculous. They’ll open them up to IOF soldiers so they can rotate out of the holocaust for a little R&R.
It’s a two-birds-one-stone solution, because the IOF can brutally kill any squatters to feel at ease and at home during their visits.
much like the fast food business does with their food waste
when i worked at burger king we were told to throw out any pre-made burgers that had sat under the heating lamp for more than 10 minutes
those burgers went into a box that was then taken out to a locked dumpster every 3 hours
there was a LOT of waste
sometimes people would try to get into that dumpster and every single time a manager would be on them immediately, always threatening to call the cops
There has always been many-fold the number of homeless people compared to empty homes in America. It hovers around 10 empty homes / person who needs a home.
Most efficient system apparently
Don't worry everyone. All the green space in my neighborhood was just bought up by single developer who plans on building 1 room homes on 50ft lots and selling them for starting at $350k.
Sounds like the school in my neighborhood that was bought so that it could be turned into luxury studios. 2500/mo for 650 sq ft and you can visit the coffee shop in the old gymnasium! This is totally normal and sustainable
Huh... who could have predicted that falling wages and increasing home rental prices would mean that lots of rental units would be sitting vacant for longer and longer periods of time?
Its funny, in the laugh to keep from crying in despair kind of way, that landlords as a group are inclined to keep posting higher rental prices for their units because no individual wants to be the first to "lose" money by reducing their rates to get somebody in the units.
Is the appearance of having something that could at some future date produce "x" amount of revenue more important that actually generating revenue?
Perfectly efficient economic system we've got right here.
landlords as a group are inclined to keep posting higher rental prices for their units because no individual wants to be the first to "lose" money by reducing their rates to get somebody in the units.
I was thinking about this the other day and how funny it would be if someone just destroyed the entire market overnight by cutting their losses and cashing out. Like maybe they have $10 billion invested into vacant homes, but decide it's better to lose $5 billion now vs. waiting another decade to try and get the full $10 billion. So they sell everything off at way, way below market rates. It's not a small amount either, so another investor can't just swoop in and get the $10 billion by buying this person out.
From there, it dominoes out of control where people are buying $500k homes for $200~300k. Competitors can't keep up with how fast the homes are sold to individual families, yet they see their current investments now at risk of losing serious amounts of money.
This would never happen because landlords wouldn't be landlords if they had the foresight to pull it off, but I can dream of China doing it to torpedo North America's housing market.
Is this crypto?A lot of it depends upon how much it costs to hang on to a stagnant asset. If you're not renting out a house, you're still paying property tax on it.
Cities can use this to a desired outcome by raising property taxes, in equal percentage points to an "Owner-Occupied" exemption. This is assuming that there aren't tax loopholes being exploited, or that those loopholes are closed.
Death to America
Is the appearance of having something that could at some future date produce “x” amount of revenue more important that actually generating revenue?
That's not all, the future potential revenue can be even more important than their own lives, ask kulaks.
Maybe? Brewing? It's been here since like 2008.
Just tax land values and do the opposite of what wall street wants, problem solved.
do the opposite of what wall street wants, problem solved.
It doesn't actually matter what the economic problem is, this is nearly always the solution.
There is a massive housing crisis brewing in America
The ocean is beginning to show signs of moisture
Good thing the democrats are running on a platform of giving out 25k towards "down payment assistance" that will function to drive up the cost of homes and down payments and function as a giant give away to landlords who are the only ones who will ever get that cash.
brewing
Death to America
Death to Capitalism as a whole!
Brewing?
"alarms have not yet been raised"
oh yeah?
