Nobody is saying residential buildings don't exist. The claim -- which all the experts seem to back -- is you can't convert large office buildings to residenti

Nobody is saying residential buildings don't exist. The claim -- which all the experts seem to back -- is you can't convert large office buildings to residential. For some of the reasons parent says, plus more importantly, you only have a habitable outer shell or donut given light requirements. And it's extremely expensive to take water and sewer, which are all located in the core, and distribute them out to each future apartment. See eg https://slate.com/business/2022/12/office-housing-conversion-downtown-twitter-beds.html https://slate.com/business/2022/12/office-housing-conversion...