A homeless shelter is about to open inside Amazon’s headquarters. Its director says ‘it’s not on corporations’ to solve the homelessness problem.
NATIONWIDE HOMELESSNESS EXPERT: Community advocate and President of New York’s-Central Park South Civic Association, Michael Fischer, is available to discuss the crisis-level homeless epidemic, that has eclipsed 61,000 New Yorkers homeless – the highest number since America’s Great Depression.
Homelessness ‘getting worse’ —
some cities pushing back…
As Homelessness Surges in California,
So Does Backlash…
ENTIRE Bay Area sees
homelessness surge…
As big tech gets bigger, industry leaders have begun making more noise about helping homeless populations, particularly in those regions where high salaries have driven up the cost of living to heights not seen before. Last January, for example, Facebook and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, among other participants, formed a group called the Partnership for the Bay’s Future that said it was going to commit hundreds of millions of dollars to expand affordable housing and strengthen “low-income tenant protections” in the five main counties in and around San Francisco.
Microsoft meanwhile made a similar pledge in January of last year, promising $500 million to increase housing options in Seattle where low- and middle-income workers are being priced out of the city and its surrounding suburbs.
Amazon has made similar pledges in the past, with CEO Jeff Bezos pledging $2 billion to combat homelessness and to fund a network of “Montessori-inspired preschools in underserved communities,” as he said in a statement posted on Twitter at the time, in September 2018.
Now, however, Amazon is taking an approach that immediately raises the bar for its rivals in tech: it’s opening up a space in its Seattle headquarters to a homeless shelter, one that’s expected to become the largest family shelter in the state of Washington.
READ: techcrunch.com/2019/12/30/while-other-tech-giants-fund-housing-initiatives-amazon-is-opening-a-homeless-shelter-inside-its-hq/
READ: www.businessinsider.com/amazon-headquarters-homeless-shelter-seattle-opening-2019-12
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