Amazon is investing $40 million to help moderate-income families purchase homes in the Seattle area as well as other regions where the tech giant has a major presence.
Amazon will provide $150 million to build and preserve 1,700 units of affordable housing in Seattle and neighboring cities. The new funding, announced Monday at a press conference with Seattle… Read More
Amazon on Tuesday announced that it has allocated $42.5 million to help pay for the construction of 318 affordable apartments near two light rail stations in the greater Seattle area.… Read More
Roughly 9,200 affordable housing units are being preserved or created in the greater Seattle area thanks to an initiative launched by Microsoft three years ago. An additional 19,000 households have… Read More
To suggest that Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan had a pressurized run as the Emerald City’s top elected official is to badly understate her tenure. Drafted into office after a disgraced… Read More
The next Seattle mayor will take over a city going through historic transitions — from a pandemic shutdown to the oscillating reopening; from working at work to working from home;… Read More
The majority of Seattle tech workers don’t expect to ever return to their offices full time and the effects of that transition could alter everything from commercial real estate, to… Read More
Engineers at CityBldr knew they were sitting on a goldmine of zoning and land data. After all, that’s how the Bellevue, Wash.-based big data company helps large corporations know the… Read More
Amazon is committing $100 million to help create up to 1,200 affordable housing units across the Puget Sound region as part of its ongoing Housing Equity Fund. The latest effort… Read More
Microsoft pledged $500 million for affordable housing in January. Five months later, Google said it would invest $1 billion to help the Bay Area housing crisis. Amazon and Salesforce also announced… Read More
In about a week, Microsoft will begin accepting applications for its pioneering $500 million affordable housing fund. Microsoft Philanthropies Director Jane Broom announced the company’s criteria for affordable housing projects… Read More
The story of gentrification and skyrocketing housing prices is becoming a well-worn one in Seattle. But here’s an organization you normally don’t hear talking about housing prices: A children’s hospital.… Read More
Debate over Seattle’s controversial “head tax” often focuses on what the city is or isn’t doing about a surging homelessness problem in the city, and the obligation of Seattle’s businesses to… Read More
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Investors are taking note of Blokable, a Seattle startup founded by a former Amazon manager that aims to cut costs for builders and residents alike through the construction of tech-powered manufactured housing.… Read More
Legislation to allow taller buildings in Seattle’s Chinatown/International District neighborhood — in exchange for money for affordable housing — is moving ahead. Seattle City Council’s Land Use and Transportation Committee… Read More
