New Amazon Building in Seattle Will Include a Homeless Shelter
亞馬遜西雅圖新辦設流浪者收容中心
刊登日期：2017-05-14
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亞馬遜即將在西雅圖的新建大樓中，提供流浪者收容中心的永久空間。 |
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New Amazon Building in Seattle Will Include a Homeless Shelter 亞馬遜西雅圖新辦設流浪者收容中心 Amazon is now providing a permanent place for the homeless in its new building in Seattle. 亞馬遜即將在西雅圖的新建大樓中，提供流浪者收容中心的永久空間。 The company will donate half of the space in its new six-story building, providing 47,000 square feet of space with private rooms that can accommodate 65 families or roughly 220 people. 亞馬遜將捐出公司新的六層樓建築的其中一半，約4萬7千平方英尺的空間，設置足以容納65個家庭或約220人的私人房間。 The building was an old Travelodge motel before Amazon bought the property to meet its increasing need for office space in the city. 這棟建築物原本是老舊Travelodge汽車旅館，亞馬遜為滿足公司在西雅圖市內逐漸增加的辦公空間需求，而買下這棟房產。 A year ago, the company invited Mary’s Place, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping homeless women, to set up a shelter inside the building. 一年前，亞馬遜邀請致力於幫助無家可歸女性的非營利組織瑪麗之家，在這棟老旅館內設置流浪者收容中心。 As the building will be soon torn down to make way for another sparkling office building to be erected, Amazon has decided to give the shelter a permanent home. 隨著這棟建築物很快地將被拆除，挪出空間蓋另外一棟光鮮亮麗的辦公室大樓，亞馬遜決定給這個流浪者收容中心一個永久的家。 Homelessness is a deteriorating situation in Seattle, where tent encampments have sprouted up by the side of freeways, under bridges and in parks. The surrounding King County area had the third-largest homeless population in the U.S. last year, after New York and Los Angeles. 在西雅圖，人們無家可歸的情況日益嚴重，在高速公路兩旁、橋下和公園裡出現許多帳篷營地。去年西雅圖所在的金郡，無家可歸人口排名全美第三，僅次於紐約和洛杉磯。 Many point to companies like Amazon for exacerbating the homeless problem: The company is hiring thousands of people, and its high-paid employees drive up housing prices. 許多人指出亞馬遜等公司使得人們無家可歸的問題變得更加嚴重：亞馬遜僱用了數千人，其高薪的員工使得房價飆漲。 Over the years, Amazon has also been bashed for being disengaged from the civic life of its hometown and falling behind other local companies known for their philanthropic giving, like Boeing, Microsoft and Starbucks. 過去幾年，亞馬遜也被抨擊不夠關心西雅圖當地的民生，對於慈善事業的投入也不如波音、微軟與星巴克等公司。 Amazon’s plan to house some of the city’s homeless families under the same roof as tech workers who are driving the city’s ever-more expensive housing market is apparently an effort to change that narrative and salvage the company’s reputation. 亞馬遜欲安排市內流離失所的家庭與炒熱房地產市場的高科技員工們，待在同一個屋檐下的計劃，顯然是想要推翻這樣的論調，並挽救公司的名聲。 |
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