Based on currently available numbers, there are about 31 vacant housing units for every homeless person in the U.S.
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That's another condemnation of allowing only the market to decide where we build housing. A socialist government would build houses where people need houses.
And... Float them in the air? Homeless in metro areas may not have started there, but that's where a sizeable portion are now and it's not like there's abundant space for housing.
People need houses but we need stores and office buildings and other things too.
There's plenty of room; we just build nothing but luxury housing. And there's an over-abundance of parking lots because of land speculation. Our land is not being used efficiently at all.
Are you finding homeless people somewhere I'm not? The downtown metro areas are where there is a) not other housing by and large, and b) not space for anything else anyway. Maybe we are talking past each other.
I'm in downtown Los Angeles. We have lots of homeless people, vacant housing, and wasted space like paved parking lots. Where are you?
Midwest, below Chicago burbs. We have in my area way way way more housing demand than supply and houses sell before market or within hours. We have some here and there homelessness but it's never as bad as streets of downtown Chicago, where parking spaces cost as much as houses.