How living in an office could solve the housing crisis

Converting offices into homes can be an effective way of using underutilised space and creating more places to live. Not every building is suitable, though.

Rosa Silverman

Apr 2, 2024 – 3.26pm

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In the newly fitted-out Station House apartment block, resident Sania Mushtaq has everything close at hand. There’s a 24-hour gym and shared workspace downstairs, free-of-charge for tenants. Metres away is an Aldi supermarket in a retail park. Directly below the apartments is Milton Keynes railway station, putting Mushtaq half an hour from the centre of London.

“I live one second from the station,” says the 23-year-old medical student. “I have quite a nice one-bed with everything I need. I’m a city girl, so for me just having everything around, all the shopping malls, is nice.”

The Telegraph London