How San Francisco can tackle two of its biggest issues: office vacancies and housing

LTC Eugene Chu they are doing the same in our area... in fact... a huge "Professional" building is being converted into a Women's/Children's Homeless Shelter. This should be used for homeless Veterans across America... IF they were concerned about helping the veteran.
..."“The issue started with the pandemic,” said Colin Yasukochi, CBRE’s executive director at its Tech Insights Center. “Prior to the pandemic, in the city of San Francisco, our office vacancy rate was about 4%. Which meant that 4% of all the space, the millions and millions of square feet of space that we had in the city, were vacant. Today, that number is more like 26%.”

With remote work gaining popularity, the problem is only expected to worsen. San Francisco has been referred to as the work-from-home capital of the United States, with the American Community Survey finding that 46% of employees in San Francisco worked from home in 2021, up from 7% in 2019.

To combat the rising number of office vacancies, one local legislator is pushing to convert empty office buildings into residential buildings. Matt Haney, a Democratic state Assembly member, says tackling the empty office problem could help the city take the much-needed steps it needs to address the housing crisis."...