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White House opens $45 billion in federal funds to developers to convert offices to homes
(www.marketwatch.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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I am actually pretty optimistic on that front. Mostly because those buildings are already up to code for office workers and keeping hallways to the various fire exits is a "solved" problem. Also, after you get a dozen or two floors up, windows stop being particularly useful for survival and are more about quality of life.
What I DO expect are horror stories and likely a new "twitch meta" of playing the audio of people fucking in the next apartment over and the inevitable doxxing and shaming that goes along with that. Also HVAC hell as we already learned that a LOT of office buildings and facilities are calibrated for a specific type of occupancy and caused massive temperature swings during the lockdown portion of covid.
Oooh, maybe a story or twelve about how someone smoking weed on the other side of the building resulted in everyone's PS7 getting destroyed by water. But I think California already requires sprinkler heads in apartments so that is not going to be unique to this?
I've had sprinklers in apartments. Usually they're a bit smarter than office ones. They didn't turn on through the whole building and only come on after the smoke detector has been going for a bit.
I have them in my current apartment. They aren’t activated by the fire alarm, they’re heat activated so if there’s no actual fire the sprinkler doesn’t turn on.
Ah that's good. I'm glad they thought of that