930
meš irl
(lemmy.world)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2024
930 points (98.0% liked)
me_irl
4205 readers
732 users here now
All posts need to have the same title: me_irl it is allowed to use an emoji instead of the underscore _
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Supply and demand. House prices are high because lots of buyers are financially competing for the same properties. The prices won't collapse unless something disastrous happens to the world that results in an oversupply of housing or massively harms people's spending power, and the odds are you would be affected by that too.
There are currently 10 million vacant homes across the US, (15 million if you count the ones for rent,) which represents about 7.5% of the total housing. Not refuting your argument, just adding to the conversation.
I guess a lot of these are in less than desirable locations, among other factors, but 4.5 million of them are listed as seasonal, occasional, or recreational use. That's a lot of vacant housing, considering only 1.2 million of them are for sale.
Edit, I guess these are 2020 numbers so these may have changed since then.
A large supply of affordable housing, say like the kind provided by a government dedicated to alleviating the housing crisis, would surely help.
It's not like there's nothing we can do.
Just need boomers to die off. That'll get some houses on the market.
We never should have talked them out of eating horse de-wormer
Later are the Heavenly gates....genZ-er 4242114...how do you plea? Innocent? Any complaints? No housing? Dude, did you know COVID was supposed to remove the large majority of the population so that you guys got housing for cheap? But nah! You guys had to find a vaccine!