• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    1 month ago

    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.

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      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.