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Re:The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong by vel0city on Thursday July 31, 2025 @10:30PM (#44752465)
Do you have any actual data on the rate of unoccupied properties that are not recently or soon to be available to rent in any major US markets? It seems like kind of hard data to find from my brief perusing around. I'm very interested in seeing some reliable data on this.

I had thought such units would have been included in the housing vacancy statistics, but apparently they are not.

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Re:The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong by ch4s3 on Friday August 01, 2025 @12:14AM (#44752959)
I haven’t spent much time looking at any place other than New York. But there’s census data, tax data, and a lot of public records. The number of empty units is small. The total is probably close to 40k, but that’s a fuzzy number and moving target. That includes regular vacant units.

https://gothamist.com/news/how-many-nyc-apartments-are-vacan...

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