There’s a dream solution to America’s housing crisis and to its increasingly deserted downtowns: Convert the empty offices into homes. Across the country, cities like New York, Boston and Cleveland ...
The Biden administration on Friday announced a new multi-agency plan to convert empty office spaces into housing as part of an effort to tackle a housing shortage while office vacancies reach a ...
The US housing market faces an inventory shortage, but empty offices don't offer a solution. Goldman Sachs strategists say that offices can't be cheaply or easily converted into residential units. The ...
Remote work can be amazing for employees. Less time in stuffy offices and commuting on crowded highways means more time and energy for everything else in life. But remote work is not so great for ...
I live in the Boston area. And when I walk and drive around, I see a lot of signs on buildings advertising office space for rent. When I travel to Washington, D.C., to host this show, I see the same ...
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Currently, several metros have ...
Cramming yourself into the end of your living room isn’t cutting it anymore. Let’s be honest—it probably stopped cutting it months ago, but you’ve been pretending otherwise. I get it. I did the same ...
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min A new proposal in Waltham seeks ...
NPR'S Sacha Pfeiffer talks with David Smith, head of Americas Insights at the real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield, about the empty commercial buildings across several U.S. cities. I live in ...