Post #618254
2026-03-10 16:48 UTC
Replies (19)
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@sarah@phpc.social 2026-03-10 22:05
@jetton@mastodon.online that’s dangerously close to the notion of “bus the homeless away” since the homeless may or may not be in the same place as the houses.
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@nantucketlit@mastodon.social 2026-03-10 16:52
@jetton@mastodon.online That does put the "housing crisis" into perspective.
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@Theriac@plasmatrap.com 2026-03-10 17:07
@jetton@mastodon.online ... but they can find 1 billion a day when they want to.
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@stevendrowe@mstdn.social 2026-03-10 17:08
@jetton@mastodon.online In the UK: 382,000 homeless people. 1.5 million unoccupied dwellings. Seems the US is not the only country who can't get their act together.
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@xenophora@mastodon.art 2026-03-10 17:26
@jetton@mastodon.online That's because they're all invested in shit like Blackrock and most of them are privileged nepo baby or nepo hire assholes, too.
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@Steve@social.coop 2026-03-10 17:41
@jetton@mastodon.online The problem repeats at all levels of government, so the number of people who can't find a solution is considerably larger. I speak as someone who has to weave through homeless people to reach my office.
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@obscurestar@mastodon.social 2026-03-10 17:46
@jetton@mastodon.online But how could they keep rents high, keep the people nose to grindstone too afraid of having the means to feed their children to stand up to fascism if they did the right thing? How could the right continue to be worthless parasites feeding on the blood of the working class, screaming hate about lazy homeless people while they're off to Aruba on the renter's dime , all the while feeling worthwhile because they were born with wealthy parents and a silver spoon.
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@disorderlyf@todon.eu 2026-03-10 17:49
@jetton@mastodon.online Canada isn't doing much better with just shy of 60,000 estimated and 1.3 million vacant homes. Starting to notice a pattern...
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@luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-10 17:56
@jetton@mastodon.online Say it proper: a bunch of rich enough people that don't care.
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@MisterSmith@mastodon.social 2026-03-10 18:28
@jetton@mastodon.online the power of property goes even far beyond that, up to the point of mass killing. So we have to ask exactly this question: why can't we imagine a world without property?
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@YexingTudou@kolektiva.social 2026-03-10 19:39
@jetton@mastodon.online similar
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@toddz@social.linux.pizza 2026-03-10 20:03
@jetton@mastodon.online The United States also has: 652 daily news segments about the housing crisis featuring housing builders who say the problem is we just aren't building enough housing.
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@McWabbit@tenforward.social 2026-03-10 20:25
@jetton@mastodon.online High time for Le Chop Chop. The difference in wealth between the ultra rich and the poor is much larger than it was in France before the French Revolution.
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@nuwagaba2@mastodon.social 2026-03-10 21:14
@jetton@mastodon.online The solution is right before their eyes and they just choose not to take it. There are even more vacant homes than the homeless people. Why are they funding useless wars instead of creating homes for their citizens?
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@iriyan@kolektiva.social 2026-03-10 22:44
#Iran for 15 years has instituted a minimum salary for all No wonder they are bombing it @jetton@mastodon.online
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@Bluegrass_Nomad@stranger.social 2026-03-10 23:14
@jetton@mastodon.online While I definitely agree with your sentiment, the 15M number is worth digging into! "Vacant households were broken down into several categories: "for rent," "rented, not occupied," "for sale only," "sold, not occupied," "for seasonal, recreational, or occasional use," "for migrant workers," and "other vacant."" This does not excuse Congress being utterly worthless or local & state officials refusing to change deeply restrictive housing regulations! https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/states-with-most-vacant-homes/
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@raven@fedi.raventhemaker.com 2026-03-10 23:20
@jetton@mastodon.online They could do something about our wanna be dictator, too. There's a lot they could do for the public good, but it doesn't seem to be about that.
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@chandlerkyle93@stranger.social 2026-03-11 01:03
@jetton@mastodon.online I see 535 problems.
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@serapath@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-11 03:47
@jetton@mastodon.online This begs the question why homes are so expensive and why they are even being built. Building them costs, maintaining them costs, but if they are vacant they dont generate income. Could it be that it is inflation and people just buy homes and inflate that bubble, because they want to park their money somewhere to protect from "inflation"? Maybe there should be an alternative outlet for people so home prices and rents can collapse and become affordable again.