Empty housing

Depressingly, There Are Enough Vacant Housing Units In SF ... - SFist

There's evidence to suggest that a good percentage of people have returned over the course of late 2021 and through 2022, so these numbers may ...

Five Million Homes Sit Empty Across Largest U.S. Metros

Five Million Homes Sit Empty Across Largest U.S. Metros ... Nearly 5.5 million homes are sitting vacant in the U.S.'s largest metros, but they're ...

Japan's millions of cheap empty houses draw foreign interest - CNBC

Foreign buyers eye Japan's empty houses with millions available for cheap — but experts warn of risks ... There are 9 million “akiyas” — empty ...

Time To Ask Why So Many San Francisco Homes Are Vacant

A KRON-4 article, which pegs the vacancy rate at 15% (the highest rate in the nation), gets closer to addressing the question, but still skirts ...

Cities are taxing vacant homes to create more housing - Quartz

If passed, the measure will impose a tax of $2,000 to $5,000 on housing units unoccupied for more than six months, ostensibly freeing up more ...

St. Louis to host national vacant property conference, city working on ...

St. Louis to host national vacant property conference, city working on fixing the issue For more Local News from KMOV: ...

Homelessness in America - The Urban News

There are currently 28 vacant homes for every one person experiencing homelessness in the US. For many Americans, finding affordable housing ...

Here are the states with the most vacant houses - The Hill

Related Content · Maine—23.9 percent · Alaska—21.4 percent · Vermont—21.3 percent · Florida—20.5 percent · West Virginia—17.7 percent · Delaware ...

'We Need Those Houses'—Activists Take Over Vacant ... - Shelterforce

50 people who have taken over 12 vacant PHA properties since late March, according to Jennifer Bennetch, an Occupy PHA activist who led the home takeovers.

Vacancies Are a Red Herring | Benioff Homelessness and Housing ...

Policy manager Ned Resnikoff explains why housing people in "all those vacant apartments" is not a viable solution to homelessness.

The US has empty buildings it could use to tackle homelessness ...

With hundreds of thousands of people unhoused, government red tape prevents properties from going to housing non-profits.

Millions Of Homes Sit Vacant Amid America's Housing Crisis

America has a housing shortage. According to Realtor.com, the gap between single-family home construction and household formation grew to ...

Does the Los Angeles region have too many vacant homes?

Los Angeles vacancy rates rank among the lowest in the nation, and are lower today than they were for most of the past 15 years.

61000 homes are empty in San Francisco: report - KRON4

A new report released Thursday by the city's Budget and Legislative Analyst Office revealed that a staggering 61,473 homes were vacant in San ...

America's biggest cities have 5.5 million empty homes - Yield PRO

The average vacancy rate across the cities analyzed was 7.22 percent, accounting for 5.475 million homes. New Orleans, Miami, and Tampa, Florida had the ...

How Many Vacant Homes Are in America? (2022 Data)

Expensive housing prices and low inventory have buyers in a frenzy. What are the most vacant U.S. cities, and where might Americans be most ...

The federal government has more than 8000 vacant properties. Why ...

All of this is made possible by a 2016 federal law that says that properties the federal government doesn't believe it needs anymore should be ...

These 5 States Have the Most Vacant Homes - Newsweek

Vermont, Maine, Alaska, West Virginia and Alabama have higher vacancy rates, with Vermont's sitting highest in the country at 22.86 percent.

FACT CHECK: Are There More Than 633000 Homeless People And ...

Some government programs have been instituted to utilize vacant properties to help house homeless people. ... Many of the vacant housing units on ...

Why You Shouldn't Turn Your Empty Homes Into Rental Properties

Why shouldn't you turn your empty homes into rental properties? Because you can afford not to and because it's more productive that way. If you ...