The main issue here is jobs. There are many vacant houses in the US, but most of them are not where there are a great deal of jobs. There needs to be a jobs program and a public housing program.
This is part of why I think we should have a reserve labor force trained and certified in a variety of trades. Dispatch them all around the country to do maintenance and infrastructure projects and pay them even when they're not actively on a job.
It would require decades of rehabilitation. Undoing the damage caused by the private sector is several lifetimes of work in itself, and then building functional, sustainable, and reliable replacements several lifetimes more.
The most recent data from the National Alliance to End Homelessness puts the number of homeless people at 552,830. There are more than 17 million vacant homes across the U.S., according to the Census Bureau.
There's literally like 3 times as many empty homes as there are homeless people in the U.S
The main issue here is jobs. There are many vacant houses in the US, but most of them are not where there are a great deal of jobs. There needs to be a jobs program and a public housing program.
This is part of why I think we should have a reserve labor force trained and certified in a variety of trades. Dispatch them all around the country to do maintenance and infrastructure projects and pay them even when they're not actively on a job.
We could literally employ every jobless person for the rest of their lives and not even scratch the surface of fixing the USA's awful infrastructure.
It would require decades of rehabilitation. Undoing the damage caused by the private sector is several lifetimes of work in itself, and then building functional, sustainable, and reliable replacements several lifetimes more.
It's closer to 30 times, actually.
FACT CHECK: Are There More Than 633,000 Homeless People And 13.9 Million Vacant Homes In The US?