Why don’t we just turn empty offices into housing?

Many offices are sitting empty following the rise of working from home, while cities around the world face housing crises. Building new housing is extremely carbon intensive. Could converting unused offices into housing help solve both problems? #planeta #officeconversion #greenbuilding We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we’ll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess. Credits: Reporter: Dave Braneck Camera: Henning Goll Video Editor: Frederik Willmann Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk Factcheck: Jeannette Cwienk Thumbnail: Em Chabridon Interviewees: Steven Paynter, Principal Architect, Gensler Lily Langois, City Planner, San Francisco Planning Dept. Pernilla Hagbert, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Benjamin Albrecht, Director of Development, International Campus Marcus Gwechenberger, Head of Planning, Frankfurt For important background information, thanks to also: Stefan Bürger, GWH Housing Association Darwn Gafori, International Campus Read more: US federal government incentivizing office to housing conversions: Some of the physical challenges of converting offices into housing: Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:51 The Vacancy Problem 2:31 Housing’s environmental Impact 4:12 Adaptive Reuse 6:55 Improving City Planning 8:53 Cutting Red Tape 10:38 Potential