housing discrimination

A small team of researchers behind the state-funded Racial Restrictive Covenant Project are sorting through millions of residential property documents in Washington to uncover a lost history of housing discrimination. But that state funding runs dry in June.

In a mostly white neighborhood, you'll see phrases like "vintage charm" and "classic" when searching rental advertisements. In neighborhoods that are…

In 1963, a quarter-million people gathered in Washington, D.C., to hear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. But the summer of 1963 marked a critical point in Seattle history as well, as young activists staged the city’s first sit-ins of the civil rights movement.

Finding a place to rent in a tight housing market is stressful enough. Being turned down because you are retired or living on disability can make it even…

To much fanfare last week, the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage and upheld Obamacare subsidies. But those decisions overshadowed another…