Comment on The reason the right are so anti Mamdani is obvious: they don’t want you to see what your tax dollars being put to work the right way would actually look like. Then everyone would want it everywhere.

VibeSurgeon@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lies.

  Office space is easily remodeled. Most high rise commercial buildings have windows. they are designed for it to be changed every few years.

  Older buildings regularly get turned into housing and sell well exactly for their unique characteristics.

  I lived in a converted building that had an enormous industrial crane structure inside of it. They had retrofitted a pool, hot tub, and basketball court on the roofs. It even had two stall parking.

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  • VibeSurgeon@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They have windows, yeah. They also tend to have way more internal space than your average residential high-rise.

    I’m all for reclaiming unused office space, but sometimes it’s just better to build a new building on the lot, that is fit for purpose.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      More internal space means more or larger units. Or am I misunderstanding?

      Usually it’s that the insulation sucks

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• Postimo@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is there a written version of this podcast, all this article says is there are structural and governmental problems, ending with if we want more have the government doing it, which is what they did.

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  • VibeSurgeon@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s a transcript here: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/551-office-space/transcript/

    But really, I recommend you give it a listen.

    My conclusion from it was that, sad as it may perhaps be, it’s probably better if we replace these buildings with actual purpose-built apartment buildings. The juice is not really worth the squeeze for these retrofits, in most cases.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Around here the commercial buildings are insulated very differently from the residential. I don’t know the specifics, just that commercial has worse insulation (per my insulation guy)

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• gigaqps@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’re not converting the building. They’re tearing it down and building new ones.

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  • VibeSurgeon@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s a different story then. I could only really go off of the fact that the image said “converting”.

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