WBUR: As office owners get serious about converting buildings to residential, the city and state offer up big incentives to make projects feasible.

As office owners get serious about converting buildings to residential, the city and state offer up big incentives to make projects feasible.

Converting Boston’s offices to housing is tricky, but it’s starting to happenwww.wbur.org Advocates say conversions could kill two birds with one stone, warding off vacancies while adding desperately needed housing.

Problem is all the Gov incentives eg 💰💰will ho yo billing Luxury Condos not affordable housing

The more pressure taken off old housing stock, equals more affordable housing inventory. Otherwise people and investors just come and flip because the high prices make them easy flips.

Valid 👍

Is there any order (say you take gov money then you sell 60% as affordable housing(Section 8)) for the landlords to not just take taxpayers money and still charge $4000/month?

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