Microsoft pledges $500 million to address homelessness, affordable housing in the Seattle area

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The pledge comes at a fraught time for tech companies and the cities that house them, as skyrocketing home prices have outpaced increases in income.

 

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Address how? Building a housing project, like the Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago?

Shouldn’t be their job to do this, raise taxes on the rich & have marginal rates, cut money from military as its bloated), & reinvest in the people the government personnel swore to support when they took the job.

If they REALLY want to help then they should invest in building homes for the needy and providing people with jobs they can actually depend on financially. Any time you start working with the government, whatever money you pledge will not be used towards the cause you wish.

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