A closer look
United States has over sixteen million vacant homes currently sitting completely empty across the country, while simultaneously experiencing a crisis with roughly six hundred thousand homeless individuals. If you do the math, that means there are approximately twenty-six empty houses for every single person sleeping on the streets, which feels like a glitch in the simulation that the developers refuse to patch. The invisible hand of the free market apparently decided that letting properties rot to protect corporate asset valuations is much more efficient than actually housing human beings. It is a breathtakingly cynical indictment of an economic system that treats shelter as a speculative investment vehicle rather than a basic biological necessity
