Chicago plans to convert office buildings into affordable housing

The city of Chicago has announced plans to convert a collection of empty office buildings in the city's downtown into mixed-used and residential towers.
The initiative, called LaSalle Street Reimagined, would convert nearly 2.3 million square feet (213,676 square metres) of vacant office buildings into residences and retail in the centre of Chicago, an area known as The Loop.
The plan incentivises developers to make the conversions and locally owned businesses to inhabit vacant storefronts, buil