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npalli on May 25, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why are more than 10M homes vacant in India?

I was curious and looked at vacant homes across the world.

So the US has about 13 Million vacant homes (with 1/4th the population of India). [1]

China has anywhere from 69 to 85 million vacant homes (approx. same population as India)

EU has about 11 Million vacant homes (with 40% of the population of India). [3]

I would say a lot more fine grained analysis is required to say if this is a problem or not.

[1] http://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/qtr113/q113press.pdf

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/23/europe-11m-em...

chappar on May 25, 2015 [–]

>>China has anywhere from 69 to 85 million vacant homes (approx. same population as India)

I am not sure I understand this calculation. India's population is more than a billion

npalli on May 25, 2015 | [–]

I meant China has approx. the same population as India.

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