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https://ift.tt/kdu9piT https://sites.google.com/view/idealhealthcare/car-accident-chiropractor Amazon in Seattle: The Role of Business in Causing and Solving a Housing CrisisNavigation MenuAccount MenuAccount MenuSearch MenuClose menuSearch What role should business play in solving societal issues that it helps to create? In 2020, Amazon built a shelter for women and families experiencing houselessness on its campus in Seattle, Washington. The shelter was operated in partnership with a nonprofit organization known as Mary’s Place and was designed to address what had become an urgent problem for Seattle and many other wealthy American cities, where communities were being displaced by a lack of affordable housing. Amazon’s partnership with Mary’s Place was an experiment in addressing this problem at its core, using some of the firm’s own resources to fund living space for unhoused families. But critics argued that Amazon’s apparent charity was misplaced because the company and ot...