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Choking the economy by limiting jobs is hardly a reasonable solution to limited housing. You are also presuming that it is easier to build offices than apartme

Choking the economy by limiting jobs is hardly a reasonable solution to limited housing. You are also presuming that it is easier to build offices than apartments, and easier to get permits, do environmental studies, appease NIMBY groups, and navigate the lawsuits necessary to turn offices into apartments. More directly to the point: with current residential rents there should be a lot of money in doing just what you are proposing, and yet the real estate developers aren't.

Decade 7y ago
It absolutely is easier to build offices than apartments. And I don’t have a lot of physical needs; I would live in the office if it were legal. As it is, at my previous job the company allocated a room to be the nap room, but instead turned it into a meditation/massage room because sleeping is forbidden in commercial zoning.