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Amazon To Build Homeless Shelter In Its New Seattle Headquarters (cnn.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the do-your-part dept.

Amazon is trying to do its part to help the homelessness problem in its hometown of Seattle. The company announced on Wednesday that it would donate more than 47,000 square feet of space within its newest Seattle headquarters building as a permanent location to house homeless people. CNNMoney reports: "Mary's Place does incredible, life-saving work every day for women, children, and families experiencing homelessness in the Seattle community," Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in a statement. "We are lucky to count them as neighbors and thrilled to offer them a permanent home within our downtown Seattle headquarters." Amazon is partnering with local nonprofit Mary's Place to create 65 rooms, which will house more than 200 homeless people every night. The new Mary's Place shelter will open in early 2020. It will also have a resource center like those the nonprofit offers in North Seattle and White Center, where 40-plus local nonprofits and volunteers work with staff to help families obtain employment and permanent housing.

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  1. And you can order one today! by bazmail · · Score: 4, Funny

    5 hobos for the price of 3 (for opening day only). Or is Bezos using them as guinea pigs for manned missions?

    1. Re:And you can order one today! by LabRatty · · Score: 3, Funny

      It is their battery solution to compete with Tesla. Save us Neo.

    2. Re:And you can order one today! by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 5, Funny

      He needs cheap workers that will work for pennies and be thankful for his next packing warehouse, now that outsourcing into Mexico isn't feasible anymore.

      Based on what I've heard about how much Amazon pays, I think most of the people in the homeless shelter will be Amazon employees. If they were honest they'd call it Employee housing.

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      "That's the way to do it" - Punch
  2. Or! Or! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Amazon could pay a living wage!

  3. Re:Portland Oregon by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey Amazon: They need a huge one in Portland Oregon too. I visited once and haven't seen so many homeless people in my life.

    What you saw in Portland were the political activists.

  4. Re:equal opportunity homelessness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    They should have signed up for Prime before they ordered it.

  5. Re:Why? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2, Funny

    [...] so give trump at least 2-3 years to fix the problems of trump.

    FTFY — Who knew that governing was so complicated for a businessman?

  6. Re:Or! Or! by ColdWetDog · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, he's close. Just missing things by a few blocks. Down the street from Amazon is the Allen Brain Institute.

    Brain. Institute.

    Once they take your brain (for science, of course), your only options are either the homeless shelter or politics. The vast majority of people, even after being pithed, would apparently prefer homelessness rather than politics.

    There is some hope for mankind.

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    Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
  7. Megacorps by Fieryphoenix · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have played too much Shadowrun to think this can be anything good.