>>508057260Vacancy is extremely low where people want to live. It's important to understand that there isn't a housing crisis across America, there is just a housing crisis in the cities with all the jobs and the nice towns.
Most of those vacant homes you're talking about are very affordable, from $20k to $200k. But nobody wants to live in Bird City, Kansas or Smackover, Arkansas.
The problem is zoning preventing higher density housing being built.