Amazon: The Thread | 5,000 Jobs | 1M SQFT in Nashville Yards

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1 hour ago, Luvemtall said:

Regardless of what might be someone’s prospective, big brother is always watching! Does anyone really believe that who ever you work for is going to tell you that you’re being monitored? Come on people, especially you IT folks you know you’re being monitored. 

Depends on the role as to the level of "monitoring" but in general, no. We don't have software that's watching your every click as you multitask with fantasy football while you're supposed to be doing a work task. Only assholes do that kind of thing ( I worked for one in the early 2010s - the company went out of business). We can limit, by policy, what you can do on company-owned equipment, but that's it. And that's done by way of firewall rules and EDR solutions.

[markhollin]

Families of four making up to $120,000 a year could qualify for a below-market-price new home and 1% down payment in Nashville, thanks to a new Amazon housing initiative.

Amazon announced plans last week to roll out a $40 million program focused on increasing home ownership in Nashville, Seattle and Arlington, Virginia — three cities that house its headquarters campuses. The Housing Equity Fund initiative is part of a long term $2 billion program to preserve or create 20,000 affordable housing units.

The tech giant partnered with The Housing Fund in 2021 to administer affordable-housing programs in phases for working-class and moderate-income families in the Nashville region.

Since then, it paid property tax bills for 844 homeowners and 103 landlords — who passed savings onto Nashville tenants. Most of the local beneficiaries earn below 80% of the area median income, which is about $80,000 for a family of four in Nashville.

Amazon has already contributed millions toward housing assistance in Nashville, including significant support for a new 238-unit Inglewood apartment complex for low-income renters.

More at The Tennessean here:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2023/09/19/amazon-launches-new-affordable-homeownership-program-in-nashville/70843737007/

[andywildman]

Forget using their massive lobbying arm to upzone Nashville, let's just subsidize demand.