SeattleRain@lemmy.worldM to Housing Bubble 2: Return of the Ugly @lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days agoI'm just waiting for my next AirBnB booking.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up197arrow-down14
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minus-squareHandwovenConsensus@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·29 days agoOne thing I remember when I saw this discussed before is that it doesn’t take into account whether or not those vacant properties are inhabitable.
minus-squareMirthfulAlembic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·29 days agoNor their location. It doesn’t help if a dying rural town has a hundred empty homes because nobody wants to move there.
minus-squareTransient PunklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·29 days agoAnd there’s no jobs there to afford continuing to live there
One thing I remember when I saw this discussed before is that it doesn’t take into account whether or not those vacant properties are inhabitable.
Nor their location. It doesn’t help if a dying rural town has a hundred empty homes because nobody wants to move there.
And there’s no jobs there to afford continuing to live there