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Whatever city you live in, odds are good there are units sitting vacant while people are homeless.

100% true and while I appreciate your perspicacity, this will not resolve the issue.

Seattle has a vacancy rate of 3.6% according to your cited source. Cities need a supply of vacant homes, lest we all become New York (vacancy rate 1.4%): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-02-18/looking-t...

As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the only way out of this is to build more homes.



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