That doesn’t sound right. I think there are much much more than 600,000 homeless people in the United States. Maybe that’s the number who actually sleep on the street but doesn’t count people who are staying in shelters or groups of people who rent rooms in extended stay motels?
10-15% of household in the US are “housing insecure”… There’s 127m households… So about 15 million housing insecure families. I think we should go with that. You’re probably right that the 600k is street homeless. Many people are “homeless sheltered” meaning they can couch surf, or the state is putting them in a motel, or whatever.
15 million long term vacant houses to 600,000 homeless.
That doesn’t sound right. I think there are much much more than 600,000 homeless people in the United States. Maybe that’s the number who actually sleep on the street but doesn’t count people who are staying in shelters or groups of people who rent rooms in extended stay motels?
10-15% of household in the US are “housing insecure”… There’s 127m households… So about 15 million housing insecure families. I think we should go with that. You’re probably right that the 600k is street homeless. Many people are “homeless sheltered” meaning they can couch surf, or the state is putting them in a motel, or whatever.