What’s old is new in downtown Calgary. The city has completed its first office conversion to affordable housing units – a project spearheaded by the charity Home Space.

“There’s a lot of very large empty office buildings in Calgary and for us – especially from an affordable housing lens – we wanted to make it a size that was okay for the core, from a residential point of view and affordable housing point of view: not too big, not too small," Home Space CEO Bernadette Majdell told Global News.

Anne Gaviola has more.

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