{"id":11493,"date":"2012-03-19T12:22:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T16:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=11493"},"modified":"2012-03-19T12:22:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T16:22:05","slug":"there-are-24-empty-houses-for-every-homeless-person-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/03\/there-are-24-empty-houses-for-every-homeless-person-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are 24 Empty Houses for Every Homeless Person in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/buffalo-vacant-houses.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11494\" title=\"buffalo-vacant-houses\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/buffalo-vacant-houses.jpg?resize=467%2C257\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>18.6 Million Empty Houses in America<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">That is what<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/hhes\/www\/housing\/hvs\/qtr108\/q108press.pdf\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">the census says<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">. Andrew Leonard in Salon notes that it is a bit misleading, that &#8220;4.7 million are for &#8220;seasonal use&#8221; only, the Census tells us &#8212; unoccupied vacation homes, in other words. 4.1 million are for rent, 2.3 million are for sale, and the remaining 7.5 million &#8220;were vacant for a variety of other reasons.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The census also lists the total number of homeless in America as 759,101, so there are 24 empty houses for every homeless person in America. What a shocking misallocation of resources, materials and energy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/sustainable-product-design\/186-million-empty-houses-in-america.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18.6 Million Empty Houses in America That is what the census says. Andrew Leonard in Salon notes that it is a bit misleading, that &#8220;4.7..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,181,97],"tags":[347],"class_list":["post-11493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-labor","category-us-news","tag-workers-struggle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/buffalo-vacant-houses_11493_01e8c.jpg?fit=467%2C257&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}