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On the other hand, they wouldn't have as severe a housing shortage.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zillow/2018/01/19/what-amazons-...



Isn’t the housing supply heavily dependent on the city's building regulations?


Perhaps, but bringing in a ton of workers can exacerbate a shortage. The point is that the ancestral post was claiming that Amazon's presence in Seattle is an unalloyed good, while I'm saying it's more complicated than that.


> unalloyed good

I didn't say unalloyed.




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