One in every 10 houses was vacant in 2011, according to data from the new American Housing Survey (AHS) from the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, released July ...

11. That’s a little less than 13.4 million vacant houses. There were about 633,782 people experiencing homelessness on any given night, as of 2012, according to the National Alliance to End Homelessness. Which means that there were about 21 vacant homes for every person experiencing homelessness around that time.