How Amazon's HQ2 Announcement Could Affect Your Rent

According to the Wall Street Journal, Amazon will soon announce that their long-awaited HQ2--home to 50,000 new jobs--will be built in not one, but two metro areas: Crystal City, Virginia--in the D.C. metro area; and Long Island City (LIC), Queens--in New York City. As a New Yorker (albeit a Brooklynite), this news wasn't super exciting. I know by now that a new hot tech headquarters means more people and higher rent prices. As I already pay more for a small room in a four-bedroom apartment than...