[astiela]

Good, Now turn those empty offices into housing

[c7DJTLrn]

Wish granted. They'll be turned into luxury apartments worth $1M a piece, bought by foreign investors, and vacant 364 days a year.

[addicted]

There’s easy solutions to that if it ever becomes a problem (the easiest is a vacancy tax) but it’s not currently a problem in the US as can be seen from the fact that places which have built more housing in the past decade or so have much lower rents than similar places that haven’t built as much housing.

[Detrytus]

That would actually require demolishing them and building residential buildings from scratch. Most office spaces are not designed to be inhabitable 24/7, they would suck as apartments.

[spzb]

And yet it happens https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-47720887

[john_the_writer]

And re-open the local shops, instead of having every one close in on the concrete hell.