AMAZON TO BUILD AFFORDABLE HOUSING NEAR TRANSIT STOPS
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Amazon said it will spend more than $120 million to build affordable-housing units close to transit stations near Seattle and Washington, D.C, the latest example of a tech company trying to address the affordable housing crisis critics say the industry has exacerbated.
AMAZON TO BUILD AFFORDABLE HOUSING NEAR TRANSIT STOPS

Amazon said it is working with Sound Transit and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to construct a total of 1,060 homes near four public transit sites. The Washington state sites are in SeaTac and Bellevue. The other sites are Maryland in the cities of New Carrollton and College Park.

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