Description: We should want more/less vacancies depending on the kind of vacancies we're talking about but nobody likes to specify
Vacant Nuance in the Vacant Housing Debate darrellowens.substack.com Copy link Twitter Facebook Email Notes Vacant Nuance in the Vacant Housing Debate We should want more/less vacancies depending on the kind of vacancies we're talking about but nobody likes to specify Darrell Owens Aug 27, 2021 66 6 Share Share this post Vacant Nuance in the Vacant Housing Debate darrellowens.substack.com Copy link Twitter Facebook Email Notes Much of the California housing discourse has been embroiled in vacant housing for
It seems to be a very common refrain on the Left and I understand why. It invokes similar levels of anti-Capitalist sentiment I felt working in corporate retail. Dumping beverages down the drain or tossing perfectly good food in the trash that was a day over expiration, while the homeless were starving just a few feet away. It really wakes you up to the inequity of distribution and that’s how leftists view everything.
Proponents of building more housing don’t really have a snappy response. Some people will retort by saying the statistic is wrong but it’s not, it is completely correct. It’s not hard to pull up vacancy counts from the Census website and homeless statistics from any jurisdiction. Fact is, there are more vacant homes than counted homeless people in virtually every city, every county, every state and yes, in every nation.