Seattle Commuting Costs: Sacrificing 15 Minutes Can Save Thousands
Seattle commuting costs amount to much more than the price of gas or a monthly bus pass. The value of a typical Seattle metro home that is a 15 minute commute from the city center is $962,000, compared to $632,000 for the same home located a 40-minute commute away.
How Driverless Cars Could Help Solve our Affordable Housing Woes
When it comes to housing our workforce, there are substantial economic gains to be had by enabling more workers to move to growing cities for high-paying jobs, or at least by creating an efficient way to commute between areas with affordable housing and areas with good jobs. Driverless cars promise to help us with both.
The Big Push Happening in Seattle and San Francisco
Increasingly, lower-income workers in Seattle and San Francisco's downtown areas are finding themselves searching for affordable housing farther afield from downtown jobs centers.
