Premise 1: There are lots of homeless people in the downtown area.
Premise 2: Since office workers got used to working from home during the height of the COVID pandemic, many of them prefer not to return to the office, and as a result we have lots of empty or half-empty office buildings . . . downtown.
Conclusion: Therefore we should continue ignoring the homeless problem, and force office workers to go back to their cubicles.
Pretty obvious, really.
Update: Here is an article detailing all the issues involved in converting offices to residences, written by a couple of people who actually know what they are talking about: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/analysis-heres-what-it-would-take-to-turn-empty-office-buildings-into-residential-housing.
Converting office buildings to housing is indeed part of the solution and is being executed on a small scale in Portland, Oregon. . Not all buildings suitable for said conversion. But yes.