What if we turned empty offices into housing? Remote work is hollowing out downtown Boston and other cities that desperately need affordable housing. With imagination and political will, we could address both problems at once. By Miles HowardUpdated May 2, 2021, 2 hours ago Email to a Friend This former bank building in Cleveland is being converted into "workforce housing" for people who make less than the city's median income.Ryan Ready/Flickr/Creative Commons by 2.0 Cleveland has a lot of empty commercial real estate and a glaring need for affordable housing, especially downtown. So a new development there aims to address both things. Itâll turn most of a sprawling old bank building into 868 units of âworkforce housing.â