Amazon launches over 2 bln USD Housing Equity Fund


  • World
  • Thursday, 07 Jan 2021

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Amazon on Wednesday announced the Housing Equity Fund, a more than 2 billion U.S. dollars commitment to preserve and create over 20,000 affordable housing units in the U.S. state of Washington's Puget Sound region; Arlington, Virginia; and Nashville, Tennessee.

The company has or expects to have at least 5,000 employees in the three communities in the coming years, Amazon said.

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