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It's not like the land wouldn't be viable for high end housing if the corps could push for rezoning. It doesn't have to stay only office space.
Conversion would cost billions for most of those buildings. And many of those areas can't support a population increase on the level of hundreds of thousands of people. It's do able but these people are not willing to do anything that improves humanity.