In this eye-opening video, we dive deep into the striking statistic that suggests there are 27 empty houses for every homeless person in the United States. W...
that there are 27 empty houses for each homeless person
And my point is that that doesn’t tell you a thing about whether there is or isn’t a problem.
It happens that, in the US, there is a problem (way too many homeless people and way too many empty houses), but computing the ratio of those two bad things is inherently a pointless activity. That’s my point.
And my point is that that doesn’t tell you a thing about whether there is or isn’t a problem.
It happens that, in the US, there is a problem (way too many homeless people and way too many empty houses), but computing the ratio of those two bad things is inherently a pointless activity. That’s my point.
See, I figured the point wasn’t so much computing the ratio, but the simple idea that homeless people and empty homes shouldn’t co-exist.