" as of 2015, almost 7 million people have lost homes to foreclosure in the US alone.97 As an aside, the ratio of empty homes to homeless people is troubling to think about. In Europe there are about 11 million empty homes and 4 million homeless—a ratio of just under three homes for every one homeless person—while in the US the ratio is six empty houses to one homeless person.98 In the UK alone, there are ten empty houses for every homeless family.99 This is no doubt a clear indication of serious structural inefficiencies in the economic system. "

― Peter Joseph , The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression