Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing
arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 day agoYou know I see this figure a lot, but I wonder how many of these are actually liveable.
My grandfather’s old home is unoccupied, that’s because the roof entirely collapsed. The county refuses to remove it from the property taxes. Based on all available records it’s an unoccupied home, but it’s a total loss in reality.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 day ago
Who knows, but you only need 5.13% to be in good condition to house everyone.
fort_burp@feddit.nl 17 hours ago
Plus getting them all up to code is huge job creation, so it’s win-win.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 17 hours ago
Also many people would volunteer to help restore these places for people’s use if it was actually a legal option.
fort_burp@feddit.nl 16 hours ago
Maybe, but a local credit union could create the money as a loan and it gets spent into the economy for a socially necessary purpose, which, counter-intuitively, does much more good than volunteers (setting aside the idea that paid workers are more reliable than volunteers). Technical solutions for all our problems already exist, finding them is not the issue, the issue is the political will to enact these ideas, which is just not there as a result of class war (which imo has also created the conditions that you can’t find enough people with the time & money to volunteer for this size task). My 2c.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Oh yeah we certainly have that many homes ready to be occupied tomorrow