US Has Enough Empty Houses to Hold All of Britain

[damnedifIknow]

"According to the latest data, the number of vacant U.S. homes touched 18.7-million in the second quarter. That is a daunting figure, of course, but it is more fun to put it in context. Assuming four people per household, the U.S. currently has enough surplus housing to put the entire population of the U.K., with room left over for Israel. "

http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/stat-of-the-day-us-has-enough-empty-houses-to-hold-all-of-britain.html

[SoCalDem]

1. I'd prefer to see our own homeless getting first choice

[damnedifIknow]

2. You bet

I agree.

[JRLeft]

3. According to Sean Hannity these people are lazy and need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

I hate this meme.

[Recursion]

4. There are more vacant houses in Florida than there are homeless people in the US

We live in an economy of abundance and still only know how to price by scarcity. So, the result of this imbalance is that, I kid you not, banks are paying people to bulldoze the "excess" homes. Sigh.