[asdfman123]

I'm hardly an expert on this, but it seems the exact same thing happened to all sorts of cities in the 2010s. Millennials wanted to live in cities.

It's possible some cities handled it better than others, but still worth pointing out.

[tylerFowler]

Definitely, but invariably when the conversation about office -> housing conversions come up these other cities are never mentioned. I would argue the lessons in those cities are very applicable to SF & NYC, where the conversation has been focused in the past year or so.

[Yeul]

There's a massive demographic increase in single person households. If you're single you have to meet people you can't just retreat into your suburbia castle with your family.

Architecture and city planning takes time to catch up to this new society.