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They rent them out, so likely had a contractor do the conversion and then woth the rental income cancels out the cost. "No cost" is also just what that post used, doubt official documents say no cost.

No cost to the city. Sounds like some other entity foot the bill.

No cost to the city as explained in comments written long before yours in this thread

Is there even such a thing as a non-corporate neolib?

They'd rather support a sexual predator that they said should resign from being Governor a few years earlier.

They're not converting the building. They're tearing it down and building new ones.

Lies.

Office space is easily remodeled. Most high rise commercial buildings have windows. they are designed for it to be changed every few years.

Older buildings regularly get turned into housing and sell well exactly for their unique characteristics.

I lived in a converted building that had an enormous industrial crane structure inside of it. They had retrofitted a pool, hot tub, and basketball court on the roofs. It even had two stall parking.

It's more costly than doing cookie cutter patterns that have been used for residential buildings. It's way cheaper than demo and rebuild though.

Is there a written version of this podcast, all this article says is there are structural and governmental problems, ending with if we want more have the government doing it, which is what they did.

Vacant buildings have a cost too. A vacant high rise building that gets repossessed becomes a massive cost to the city.

1. They're not converting office space. They're demolishing and rebuilding.
2. There's no cost to the city because they're selling the building to a private developer on the condition they use the site for housing.

It appears funding is coming from private sources and upkeep labor is being organized by the 32BJ Union, a massive local union that specializes in affordable housing that’s populated with people who work and specialize in “cleaners, property maintenance workers, doormen, security officers, airport workers, window cleaners, building engineers, school and food service workers, factory workers, etc”.

The conversion costs and labor appear to be funded and plan to be performed by GFP Real Estate and city partners, no doubt in exchange for good favor for future permit approvals and project integration by the Mayor’s administration.

Pretty smart if you ask me.

Source: https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/09/mamdani-administration-advances-plan-to-build-nearly-4-000-new-h

Having trouble finding any real info on this, but it appears that the city isn't actually performing the work, just changing rules and providing incentives to do the conversion.

So the "no cost" is really just that the city isn't paying for it.

https://www.metro-manhattan.com/blog/which-manhattan-buildings-are-office-conversion-candidates-under-mamdanis-housing-first-agenda/

Can you just get the win? It is healthy to be skeptic but in the context of how shit everything else is, what's the point of stating the obvious?

to the city

Nah, convert it to a pile of ash.

I wouldn't wanna live in that gaudy hellhole even if you paid me

Shit no. That would be like living in Mordor. No, to hallow that place turn it into the Trump library with every floor an exhibition of the lies, stupidity, evil and crimes he committed, with the penthouse dedicated to the Epstein Files.

And Trump into compost for affordable food?

Politician pockets via dark money and obfuscation, as is always has. The reason most people hate taxes is they go right into corrupt pockets. I wouldnt mind taxes if they actually did shit like this.