I’m pretty sure it’s everywhere, especially in big cities with a lot of airbnb. For instance in Montréal there’s hundreds of homeless people, but like 13’000 airbnb (most of them illegals) and thousands of vacant condos in high rise towers (because they are $$$). Downtown office buildings are also empty since covid.

I’m finding it hard to believe all of them would pass any sort of inspection to live in. The author might be confusing real-estate properties for homes. Not to say they’re empty lots, I’m sure there is a structure on site but from my anecdotal experience of vacant homes, they won’t provide any more protection from the weather than a cardboard box. I’m not even talking about crackhouses in a cirty or anything either. I’m saying in rural America if granny doesn’t die till 90 that house hasn’t been worked on for 40 years and is always in need of more work than the entire property is worth.

Edit: Yeah I missed where it even has the audacity to list Detroit as having the most 🤣 the author is clickbaiting the fuck out of this stat if they think even 20% of the vacant homes in Detroit are livable.

Fuck it edit 2: The real article should have been about how there is only twice as many homeless as there are fucking tax exempt churches. So two. Two fucking homeless people per church thst doesn’t pay a fucking lick of taxes. Don’t have any references or articles on this, I saw it posted on Lemmy tho like a month ago.