America is full of abandoned malls. What if we turned them into housing?

[NanaCat]

56. Office buildings wouldn't be a problem to convert

Name any home that has the bathroom usage that the typical office building has. FFS, you don't even have to consider the entirety; each floor in a high-occupancy building requires a shocking amount of plumbing needs to accommodate.

Don't think of the slow times when most people are working. Think of the stress on the system when dozens of people are putting each floor's bathroom through 'peak' usage periods every few hours--when they're coming to work, on breaks, at lunch, and before they leave work. And that's not counting the office suites that have their own bathrooms and kitchens.

An apartment complex of a similar number of residents doesn't put a bathroom through as much plumbing stress as one floor of an office building at the 10 a.m. break. It takes a powerful system to deal with that much usage all at once.

Wiring for the electric system--same thing. Even when everyone is home in an apartment complex, they don't use nearly as much electricity as your standard office floor.

They just don't.

This is why office buildings would work for conversions--and have.