eviction in Seattle

Seattle landlords must soon provide six months’ notice of rent hikes and, in some cases, pay tenants who move following a large rent increase. They are the latest in new landlord-tenant regulations including bans on some evictions and the right to a lawyer for low-income tenants facing eviction.

When a new tool called Housing Connector launched in King County last year, caseworkers responding to homelessness said it was quietly revolutionary. They…

This pandemic is testing peoples’ safety nets. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent survey, more than 140,000 renters in Washington do not…

Last year, there were four suicides among 1,473 tenants who were evicted from their home in Seattle. That's just one statistic included in a study of…