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Some people believe that it’s hard to convert office space into housing. Meanwhile there are people living inside sewage tunnels, cars, the concept of guardians in the UK (who live in office spaces), etc.

I’d be extremely happy to have any of those “hard conversion” offices to live. Naysayers should mind their own business and stop believing in nonsense.

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None of these are legally housing or residence. The problem is regulation, not that it's practically impossible to live in that space.

Living in sewage tunnels and cars is also against regulation.

Sure, but these people are not asking. If somebody finds them, they're stopped (there are legal overnight parking spots but less and less). Same thing with houses, only it's much more easily visible and the investment and fines are too much to just try.

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