谷歌斥資3000萬美元爲硅谷員工建房

Rents in San Francisco and Silicon Valley have reached such unprecedented heights that some Facebook engineers reportedly asked Mark Zuckerberg for help paying rent, some Twitter employees earning 160,000 dollars feel like they're barely scraping by, and even some residents making six-figures can qualify as "low-income" and receive subsidies.

舊金山和硅谷的房租空前高漲，有報道稱，一些臉書的工程師請求扎克伯格幫他們付房租，一些收入16萬美元的推特員工感覺自己只能勉強維生，甚至一些收入6位數的居民也可以被歸入“低收入”行列並接受補貼。

Now, Google's parent company, Alphabet, has come up with a patch: It is paying about 30 million dollars to provide temporary, prefab housing for 300 of its employees.

現在，谷歌母公司Alphabet提出了一項解決方案：花費約3000萬美元爲300名員工提供臨時的預製住房。

According to The Wall Street Journal, Alphabet is making a significant investment in modular housing built and shipped in from elsewhere by the start-up Factory OS, because the current local offerings are so overpriced.

據《華爾街日報》報道，由於目前當地供應的住房價格過高，Alphabet將投入巨資購買初創公司Factory OS在別處建造並運送過來的預製住房。

Rents for these apartments are expected to be more moderate.

這些預製公寓的租金預計將更加便宜。

Factory OS founder and CEO Rick Holliday says that a previous project that he built using modular technology saved tenants 700 dollars a month in rent because of reduced construction costs.

Factory OS創始人兼首席執行官裏克·霍勒戴錶示，通過降低建築成本，他此前使用組合式技術建造的項目每月可爲租客節省700美元的租金。

Forbes points out that tech companies continue to grow and hire in Silicon Valley, which will exacerbate the area's housing shortage.

《福布斯》指出，科技公司在硅谷繼續增長和招聘，將會加劇該地區的住房短缺。