this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2023
690 points (96.1% liked)

World News

32501 readers
908 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 107 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Agreed. This is a good idea overall, but the implementation smells like a bailout of commercial real estate developers to me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ding dong ding!

But also to a point, it will take a significant amount of work to convert office space to residential. Just utilities alone will be an adventure, and you'd better hope the building was set up with decent truck lines down the core of the structure to begin with. It's not like "hey let's throw up some walls, boom, apartments." You need adequate power distribution, and water/sewer connections to each apartment to fulfill each unit having it's own kitchen and bathroom. Commercial spaces are generally build to accommodate different usage.