Facebook village ? Social media giant to build ’social housing’
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/09/facebook-addresses-silicon-valleys-affordable-housing-crisis
The tech giant aims to build 1,500 apartments at Menlo Park after being criticised for helping to deepen the Silicon Valley housing crisis Facebook is to build its own “village” of 1,500 homes for workers struggling to pay soaring rents as the housing crisis in Silicon Valley deepens. The social networking company has submitted plans to the local council to create a new neighbourhood of homes, shops and a public plaza across the street from its global headquarters. Mark Zuckerberg’s (...)