Skip Bronson at Huffington Post points out the obvious…

About 3.5 million US residents (about 1% of the population), including 1.35 million children, have been homeless for a significant period of time. Over 37,000 homeless individuals (including 16,000 children) stay in shelters in New York every night. This information was gathered by the Urban Institute, but actual numbers might be higher.

Fox Business estimates, there are 18.9 million vacant homes across the country.

3.5 million people without homes; 18.9 million homes without residents.

Maybe homeless families can be hired as house-sitters.

If ‘the homeless’ are all people of bad character, why are more people homeless when the economy is bad? I don’t want Barack Obama to give up smoking. I want him to get a cigarette holder and a hat and some wire-rim glasses. It’s time for a New Deal.