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Hard disagree. With WFH, cities now have beautiful but empty office buildings near public transportation. Those should be turned into housing first.
by munchler 3y ago
Hard disagree. With WFH, cities now have beautiful but empty office buildings near public transportation. Those should be turned into housing first.
- deadbabe 3y agoWhy? They could be used as really cheap offices eventually as demand falls.
- munchler 3y agoWith WFH, you’ll have unused offices no matter how cheap the rent. There are simply more offices than workers to occupy them. At some point it becomes immoral not to let people live there instead.
- deadbabe 3y agoPeople can never live there, it’s not up to code. You can rent the offices really really cheap.
- novagameco 3y agoChange the code and it becomes way cheaper to renovate them. Turn them into dormitory style buildings with communal bathrooms and interior apartments with no outward facing windows
- anticensor 3y agoMost married couples would still not prefer them. It would be stuffed by single people that would otherwise be homeless.
- shortrounddev2 3y agoThat's fine, the married couples can live elsewhere. If the only thing we accomplish is ending homelessness, then that's a major achievement
- ghaff 3y agoIn practice, in much of the US, it's the commute that drives people into cities (or maybe being young). But I've never lived in a city after school and had no real interest in doing so. Maybe I would have at first but like most tech companies at the time the offices were well outside the city.