America’s Empty Offices Are Becoming Homes as Developers Turn a Post-Pandemic Problem Into Opportunity
The post-pandemic collapse in demand for traditional office space is creating an unexpected opportunity in some of America’s largest cities: turning underused commercial buildings into places where people actually live. Remote and hybrid work fundamentally altered the economics of downtown office districts. Millions of employees who once commuted five days a week now spend significantly […]
America’s Affordable Housing Paradox: Thousands of Apartments Sit Empty While the Poorest Remain Homeless
Across the United States, a troubling contradiction is emerging in the housing crisis: thousands of apartments officially classified as affordable are sitting vacant while millions of the country’s poorest renters cannot find homes they can afford. The problem exposes a fundamental mismatch between the affordable housing America is building and the people experiencing the most […]
America’s Housing Crisis Was Built Into the Suburbs — and the Next 50 Years Must Undo It
America’s housing crisis is not a temporary market failure but the product of an old development model that no longer fits how Americans live. The central claim is that the United States built its housing system for a 20th-century world of rapid population growth, large families, car-centered suburbia, and rigid separation between homes and commerce. […]
