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My favorite part of the Miami story is the argument that Miami has affordable housing. Amazon is pretty much infamous for sending rents near their offices soari
by philipodonnell 9y ago
My favorite part of the Miami story is the argument that Miami has affordable housing. Amazon is pretty much infamous for sending rents near their offices soaring through the roof.
Got affordable housing in your metro? Amazon can fix that!
- wbl 9y agoOr you could add more supply.
- Finnucane 9y agoThe amount of money flowing through Amazon in an already-densely built city would quickly swamp any possible expansion. Prices will rise.
- rhino369 9y agoIn larger cities, even amazon money wouldn't have too much an effect.
- philipodonnell 9y agoSeattle is a pretty large city. It definitely had an extremely large effect. As I understand it from stories people told me when I lived there for a few years, South Lake Union was a lower-rent district near the lake where younger single people lived that weren't attracted to the lifestyle on Capitol Hill but didn't make enough to live downtown proper or on Queen Anne or Magnolia hills. Now those people commute 45 minutes on the train from Everett or wait in traffic coming south on the heavily congested I-5 or west across the heavily congested Lake Washington Bridges.
- selectodude 9y agoSeattle metro is a little larger than the city of Chicago. It is not a large city by any metric.
- quacker 9y agoSeattle is large by the metric of population (it's the 18th most populous city in the US). San Francisco actually has smaller land area, and higher population - but I definitely consider San Francisco to be a large city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
- wbl 9y agoWhich city under consideration is densely built?