join_the_iww [he/him]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 months agoWhat is your opinion of this tweet?hexbear.netimagemessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareXavienth@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-211 months agoOffice spaces are not suitable for housing as-is, they have to be converted. So again, capitalism had failed to build housing where it is needed. And regarding housing as speculative assets, another user pointed out there’s not enough of those to actually solve homelessness
minus-squareClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoAnd those conversions are not easy. These buildings don’t have plumbing or HVAC for residential use, and they have huge internal spaces that leads to units with no windows which we don’t normally allow for good reason
Office spaces are not suitable for housing as-is, they have to be converted. So again, capitalism had failed to build housing where it is needed.
And regarding housing as speculative assets, another user pointed out there’s not enough of those to actually solve homelessness
And those conversions are not easy. These buildings don’t have plumbing or HVAC for residential use, and they have huge internal spaces that leads to units with no windows which we don’t normally allow for good reason