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The Biden administration wants to convert

mostly empty downtown office buildings into housing.

I'm Novosafo with a Marketplace Minute.

The White House says the new initiatives

are efforts to increase affordable housing

and help revitalize downtowns,

many of which have stagnated

because of the shift to remote work.

Efforts include new government financing

and the sale of federal properties for housing conversion.

The administration says it's using existing funding.

The Treasury Department issued new sanctions

to block funding for Hamas.

That's the extremist militant organization

that controls Gaza.

The sanctions focus on cutting off support from Iran.

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