Davos 2023: Convert offices to homes to curb housing crisis-panel

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Empty offices globally should be converted to apartments to address a growing housing crisis in many countries, property executives told the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday.

Commercial real estate values are sliding as an economic downturn reduces demand for space among cost-conscious companies, whose employees have been spending fewer days in the office since the COVID-19 pandemic."Office buildings need to be converted to residential," said Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of New York-based investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald, during a panel discussion. "They will become eyesores and they need to be fixed.

Millions of workers were forced to work from home during lockdowns aimed at stalling the spread of COVID-19 in 2020. Bosses are now struggling to persuade many of those staff to give up the perks of home-working, Ulbrich added.

 

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There is not a housing crisis there is a large corporation fake inflation crisis. There are roughly 28 homes for every homeless person available, we are at pre-pandemic levels of unemployment, yet inflation on most products is at or above 6%, nearly double expected average.

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Use the Davos members private jets as homes for the peasants...

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