A group of techies is using data skills to alter Seattle's housing affordability
<i>Since the end of the financial crisis, Lubarsky says, Seattle has added roughly 100,000 jobs, but barely 32,000 new homes and apartment units. “We’ve underbuilt every year since 2010,”</i><p>Interesting how that lines up so nicely with this headline&#x2F;factoid:<p><i>For every 100 families living in poverty on the West Coast, there are no more than 30 affordable homes</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geekwire.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;every-100-families-living-poverty-west-coast-no-30-affordable-homes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geekwire.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;every-100-families-living-pove...</a><p>Also, no doubt purely coincidentally:<p><i>(The Seattle area, the nation’s 22nd largest by population, has the third most homeless people, behind only Los Angeles and New York City.)</i><p>I sarcastically say <i>purely coincidentally</i> because of how often I get told that (a large portion of) homeless people are drug addicts, mentally ill etc, so lack of affordable housing is not why people are out on the street.