Except the region they happen to live in is dealing with endemic homelessness, and they're directly contributing to it. Maybe they could try and mitigate some of their impacts.
First, they aren't directly contributing to it. They are indirectly.
Also, depending on charity from global corporations to solve local community issues is not a great strategy.
The big tech companies do contribute tax dollars to public organizations whose job it is to solve matters of local public health and safety (i.e. homelessness). They're called state and local governments. Could they be the ones dropping the ball here?
I'm not depending on global corporations to solve local community issues. I'm suggesting that the billionaire investors and owners of local corporations to solve issues in the communities where they are based. The big tech companies actively employ tax strategies to avoid paying as much of their taxes as possible.
Yes, it's mostly a state, local, and federal, and international tax policy issue, but that doesn't change my point that it would be awfully nice if they tried to mitigate their impacts on their local communities.
Google and Facebook do try to mitigate their impacts by building new housing and paying for shuttle buses -- the problem is that city councils regulate these efforts into tokenism.
Also, depending on charity from global corporations to solve local community issues is not a great strategy.
The big tech companies do contribute tax dollars to public organizations whose job it is to solve matters of local public health and safety (i.e. homelessness). They're called state and local governments. Could they be the ones dropping the ball here?