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Downtown Minneapolis still grappling with office vacancies, plummeting values
(www.startribune.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2024
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In before someone explains how it's impossible to turn commercial buildings into housing and me wishing for more housing is nice and selfish.
It's not impossible, but it is definitely too expensive for a capitalist economy to do. Never mind that it would create work for thousands of people in each city while simultaneously creating affordable housing for everyone. We all must serve the economy, unless it's too expensive. Then the proles can just deal with the consequences