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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should do what Houston did and put them in apartments.

What about all the unused office space? Start there. Convert to studio apartments and start giving them to currently unhoused.[/quote]

People really need to stop parroting this really bad idea. You can't just magically covert office space into living space they meets code.  You have to basically entirely gut buildings, run new electrical, new piping, etc..it's a brand new building that makes it not cost effective. Cities also lose massive amounts of revenue because commerical space is taxed way higher than residential space.[/quote]

But if the office buildings are empty, why not convert them? Doesn't homelessness cost a lot of money already? Why not spend the money to convert these existing buildings. Think of all the SoHo lofts -- they were factory buildings that artists turned into homes. Now they are worth millions. [/quote]

Who pays to buy out existing leases, pay off existing mortgages and loans, which could be in the millions for a single building, before even being able to spend the millions more per building to convert it?  Where does the money come from?  Homeless do not contribute to tax base for local government to be able to afford it.

These things sound great on paper but are are not all that easily workable.[/quote]

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