Seattle News, References and Statistics
Here’s a reference of all the resources I used for How Our Success is Ruining Seattle which packs in a variety of data in its commentary. It was also featured in BoingBoing.
I also want to express appreciation for all of The Seattle Times’ Gene Balk’s ongoing statistical reporting on the Emerald City. It’s been essential to my knowledge, reporting and commentary.
Amazon
- ‘Amageddon’: How Amazon’s culture is taking a toll on Seattle’s future (GeekWire)
- Company Town? In Seattle, Some Fret Over Amazon’s Growth (AP / New York Times et al.)
- Dear Amazon interns, some advice from an old man who has been at Amazon way too long. (Reddit)
- ‘Old man’ at Amazon gives advice to interns: Find a better job somewhere else (GeekWire)
- Thanks to Amazon, Seattle is awash in fortune-seeking men again (Crosscut)
- Amazon’s Seattle Headcount to Nearly Triple in Five Years (Jeff Reifman)
- Amazon’s Impact on Seattle’s Ballard Neighborhood (Jeff Reifman)
- Funded By Seattle Real Estate Developers, Forbes Writer Attacks Amazon Critic (Jeff Reifman)
- Amazon’s Company Town? (Politico)
- Amazon’s ‘Life in Seattle’ recruiting video gets satirized (Seattle Times)
- Seattle After Amazon (Jeff Reifman)
Dating and the Seattle Freeze
- You’ve got Male: Amazon’s Growth Impacting Seattle Dating Scene (Jeff Reifman)
- Peepless in Seattle: Dating, Friendship, and the Seattle Freeze (Jeff Reifman)
- Amazon is Killing My Sex Life (Dame Magazine)
The Seattle Boom, Economy and State Budget
- How does Amazon’s boom compare to Microsoft’s heyday? (Seattle Times)
- Seattle’s building boom is good news for a new generation of workers (Seattle Times)
- Amazon.com just tip of Seattle boom (Seattle Times’ Jon Talton)
- The recovery gap: Seattle area’s economic expansion is favoring the wealthy (Seattle Times)
- State Schools Chief: ‘This Budget Is Not Constitutional’ (KPLU)
- Seattle economy soars alongside efforts to combat worsening inequality (Guardian)
- Some cities are still more unequal than others—an update (Brookings)
- Rich get richer: Seattle tops income growth of highest-earning households (SeattlePI)
- Ten Biggest Employers in Seattle Area (About.com)
Housing Affordability, Rental Costs and Homelessness
- In Seattle, the rent is too damn high (Grist)
- Home prices in Seattle jump 18.9 percent from year ago (Seattle Times)
- Leaders argue: ‘Rent is out of control’ in Seattle (Kiro)
- A Linkage Fee for an Affordable and Just Seattle (Publicola)
- A Social Justice Urbanism: Sierra Club leaders outline affordable housing platform (Publicola)
- O’Brien Calls for Audit of Affordable Housing Program (Publicola)
- Seattle’s affordable housing explained (Crosscut)
- Census: Seattle saw steepest rent hike among major U.S. cities (Seattle Times)
- Priced out? Growing numbers appear to be fleeing King County (Seattle Times)
- Tenants’ advocates report 150% rent increases (King5)
- Industry analyst says Seattle’s rent spike is real but part of a less alarming longterm trend (CHS Blog)
- 2015 One Night Homelessness Street Count (Seattle/King County Coalition on Homeless)
- King County homeless population up sharply in One Night Count (Seattle Times)
- Median price for single-family homes pushes past $500,000 in King County (Seattle Times)
- Amid Seattle’s Affluence, Homelessness Also Flourishes (NPR)
Development and Population Growth
- Newcomers arriving in record numbers (Seattle Times)
- Is Amazon wielding too much weight in Seattle? (GeekWire)
- Amazon’s Seattle growth continues, leases 817k square feet in 2 towers east of main campus (GeekWire)
- Amazon devouring quarter of Seattle’s best office space (Seattle Times)
- The end of tall buildings in residential neighborhoods? (Crosscut)
- What Happens to Home Prices When Technologists Come to Town… (Redfin)
- From Apple and Alibaba to Salesforce and Splunk: A guide to tech giants with outposts in Seattle (GeekWire)
Transportation
- Transit Is a Social Justice Issue, (Dan Savage, Slog)
- Vulcan to Redevelop Cal Anderson Park (Dan Savage, Slog)
- How Your City’s Public Transit Stacks Up (Five Thirty Eight)
- Study: Seattle traffic fourth worst in nation (My Northwest)
- 9 longest Puget Sound commutes, ranked from bad to worse (My Northwest)
- Traffic at a near standstill as Everett to Seattle travel times surpassed 2 hours, (Q13)
- Carfree in Seattle, the living isn’t easy (Danny Westneat, Seattle Times)
- It’s getting too dang hard to move around Seattle (GeekWire)
- Seattle drops out of Top 10 most bikeable cities (Seattle Times)
- The Way We Commute Now: 6 Seattle Stories (Seattle Times)
- Commuters: Seattle-area traffic stinks, but we’d rather drive alone (Seattle Times)
- Seattle traffic congestion: We’re No. 5 (Seattle Times)
- The 2014 Corridor Capacity Report (WSDOT)
- The 2009 Congestion Report (WSDOT)
Diversity
- Whitest big county in the U.S.? It’s us (Seattle Times)
- Cultures clash as gentrification engulfs Capitol Hill (Seattle Times)
- Jesse Jackson To Amazon: You Need More Diversity (KUOW)
- Big Tech Doesn’t See Race. That’s a Big Problem. (Seattle Weekly)
- Broverwhelmed: Gender Disparity in Seattle (SeattleMet)
- The “Woo Girls” Street Artist Is Not Hiding from Anyone (The Stranger)
- Still Here / Still Queer (Nark Magazine)
- Blotter | SPD looking for suspects in Pike/Boylston Pride gay bashing (CHS Blog)
- Seattle’s Tech Boom Blamed for Rise in Anti-Gay Attacks (Bloomberg)
- Apple donates over $50 million to improve diversity in tech (The Verge)
- Intel Invests $300 Million to Improve Its Workplace Diversity (Wired)
Crime
- Weekend mugging swarm has August shaping up as Capitol Hill’s most rob-biest month… ever (CHS Blog)
- Man dies in 24th and Spring shooting (CHS Blog)
Activism and Voting
- ‘The Little F*ckers Don’t Vote,’ (Seattle Weekly)
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos: Frequent Campaign Contributor, Infrequent Voter (Jeff Reifman)
- Election records: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos contributes often, votes rarely (GeekWire)
- Westlake Park Management Contract Limiting Activism (Seattlish)
Philanthropy
- A Midget Among Giants Why Doesn’t Amazon.com Support Seattle Arts? (The Stranger)
- Amazon a virtual no-show in hometown philanthropy (Seattle Times)
Environment
- Seattle on the Mediterranean (New York Times)
- Third calf born to endangered killer whale population in U.S. Pacific Northwest (Reuters)
- Threats to Puget Sound (Washington State Department of Ecology)
- June breaks record as warmest, fanning fears of more fires (Seattle Times)
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