Sina Science and Technology News Beijing time on July 15 in the morning news, it is reportedAppleThe company said on Wednesday that it had invested $1 billion to build comfortable housing in Northern California, including the San Francisco Bay area (San Francisco Bay Area), as part of a larger $2.5 billion plan that began at the end of 2019.

而AmazonThe company also said on Tuesday that it would provide $40 million worth of idle land to Virginia's Arlington County County, Va., to build 550 new comfortable housing units. The e-commerce giant is currently building a second headquarters in the county.

Big technology companies have long faced some criticism. When they enter certain communities, members of that community will be forced to raise housing costs because of the influx of well-paid workers from technology companies. Although the housing crisis that followed may have been caused by a variety of factors, it is impossible for large technology companies to stay on the sidelines.

The San Francisco Bay area, in particular, is notorious for its sky-high rents and extremely unstable housing problems. San Francisco has one of the highest rents in the United States, which has something to do with the city's zoning restrictions.

But more influencing factors may come from Silicon Valley, where the influx of high-paid scientific and technological talents has pushed up housing prices and affected the housing capacity of low-income indigenous people in the region. Even some scientific and technological workers are struggling with the high local cost of living.

Not just in California, but in Austin, Texas.TeslaThe energy company has developed a master planning community in partnership with Brookfield Asset Management and real estate developer Dacra. The move is Tesla.The first formal community to be built.