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The urban campus experiment
The cost of a boom
Taxes, tensions, and new frontiers
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sonia Displaced residents moved to distant suburbs as the 1990s grunge music haven transformed into expensive luxury apartments.
sonia Tent encampments sit beneath Seattle's giant glass Amazon Spheres and towering construction cranes.
sonia Stack Seattle's blocks to discover how a tech boom can trigger a housing crisis.
House price surge: During the peak tech boom, Seattle home prices rose by an average of over $100 every single day.
The process of transforming a working-class urban neighborhood through the influx of wealthier residents. Amazon's growth in Seattle priced out many local residents, triggering a severe shortage of affordable housing.
What term did Zillow economists coin to describe the skyrocketing rents caused by tech growth?
What was the primary driver of the intense housing bidding wars in Seattle during the 2010s?
According to Zillow, by what percentage did rents rise in the Seattle metro area from 2011 to 2015?
What consequence did the rapid rise in home values have on first-time homebuyers in Seattle?
How many Seattle public school students were registered as homeless by the end of 2017?
In what year did King County and Seattle declare a state of emergency over homelessness?