In those cities there are a lot of older (1900-1950) multifamily housing stock with good bones.I second @Brandon Vukelich's advice to follow the lightrail - traffic on i-5 is only geting worse, and Seattle's long term vision is to eliminate most buses and cars from downtown and have most of the other transit options simply shuttle folks to and from the lightrail stops. 

Also keep in mind there are a lot of safe good areas of the city for instance along St Paul and Calvert that have close by but smaller hospitals Mercy and Union are the size of Bayview and they have free shuttle service for Hopkins employees to get to the much larger main hospital. 

Land, permits, infrastructure, materials, furnishings, utilities, project management, property management, furnishings, sidewalks, pool maintenance, insurance for your free shuttle, etc?

When I'm not chatting here I'm working overtime to arrange complimentary transportation to get you to court and should you have pending business there secure lodging near the courthouse with complimentary shuttle service on any court dates!

Perhaps at that point it is a leadership or communication problem.For example…The engineers had a high certainty that the O-rings on the space shuttle Challenger would fail but they were ineffective in communicating this to their management.

All the big tech cos have shuttles with working desks, but commute time still matters.These are all independent from a Real-Estate/rent bubble.

And a similar thing when jobs were lost in the Space Shuttle program.