{"id":2200,"date":"2024-12-10T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2024-12-07T14:53:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T19:53:07","slug":"report-whats-the-real-source-of-our-housing-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/report-whats-the-real-source-of-our-housing-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: What&#8217;s The Real Source of Our Housing Problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The real estate industry contends that America\u2019s housing shortage is based on supply and demand.\u00a0 However, with 16 million vacant homes across the U.S. \u2014 that\u2019s 28 vacant homes for every homeless person\u2014 that cannot be the problem.\u00a0 A new study shows the real problem is that the U.S. real estate market has become such a tax haven that billionaires are acquiring property and intentionally leaving it vacant, thus driving up the cost for everyone else to rent or buy a house.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Billionaire Investors Are &#8216;Supercharging&#8217; Housing Crisis: Report<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/wall-street-buying-houses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/wall-street-buying-houses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781641609692\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The real estate industry contends that America\u2019s housing shortage is based on supply and demand.\u00a0 However, with 16 million vacant homes across the U.S. \u2014 that\u2019s 28 vacant homes for every homeless person\u2014 that cannot be the problem.\u00a0 A new study shows the real problem is that the U.S. real estate market has become such&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/report-whats-the-real-source-of-our-housing-problem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;REPORT: What&#8217;s The Real Source of Our Housing Problem?&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,62,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global","category-housing","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions\/2203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}