{"id":508294,"date":"2026-10-26T10:28:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/508294\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:28:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:28:47","slug":"can-sfs-empty-offices-be-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/508294\/","title":{"rendered":"Can SF\u2019s Empty Offices Be Housing?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">After hollowing out during the pandemic, San Francisco\u2019s office vacancy rate is hovering at around 30%. Pair that volume of empty space with an escalating housing crisis, and it\u2019s enough to make you wonder: Could you turn those empty offices into apartments? Today, we talk with two developers about what it actually takes to make these conversion projects a reality.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-36-83ef18ec-scaled-1-496feabf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106196\"  \/>150 Hayes Street, an office building which will be converted to housing, in San Francisco\u2019s Civic Center on Oct. 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-18-88a8e3cb-scaled-1-155d53e8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106190\"  \/>Cubicles inside 150 Hayes Street, an office building that will be converted to housing, in San Francisco\u2019s Civic Center on Oct. 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-27-aaa1487d-scaled-1-640249d2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106192\"  \/>Cubicles inside 150 Hayes Street, an office building that will be converted to housing, in San Francisco\u2019s Civic Center on Oct. 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-32-784c8ed3-scaled-1-2d7dd3cf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106195\"  \/>Moving boxes inside 150 Hayes Street, an office building that will be converted to housing, in San Francisco\u2019s Civic Center on Oct. 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-16-6c376f0b-scaled-1-ddf440aa.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106189\"  \/>The view of San Francisco City Hall from inside 150 Hayes Street, an office building that will be converted to housing, in San Francisco\u2019s Civic Center on Oct. 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After hollowing out during the pandemic, San Francisco\u2019s office vacancy rate is hovering at around 30%. Pair that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-508294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}