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Capitalism needs empty homes. People just need homes.
Even if you abolish capitalism, putting people in empty homes still won't solve the housing crisis.
Perfection is the enemy of good.
But the policy is not good, it's bad, and it would be bad regardless of whether you implement it in a capitalist society or any other one you care to name. It fails to address the underlying issue, fails to solve the problem even in the short term and also makes the problem worse in the medium to long term. That is, by every definition, a bad policy.
You know what else is the enemy of the good? The bad! This is the bad.
Yes Frank, giving as many people homes as possible is a bad idea.
Great, I'm glad we agree that we should house as many people as possible! So, obviously, you don't support this bad idea that wouldn't achieve that. Right?
The policy would fail for numerous reasons, some of which we have already discussed, more of which you can find in the article I linked, and none of which you have even attempted to refute, except to argue that your chosen policy would be less bad under a hypothetical non capitalist economic system. Which, maybe, I guess? But it still wouldn't work, under any system, because 'empty homes' are not the cause of the problem. Even a system based straight up on immediate need would require some empty homes.