New laws aim to keep people from losing their homes in Washington
Help for renters and homeowners is on the way as the state’s eviction moratorium is set to expire June 30. By Melissa Santos, Crosscut
Share: Carol Porter outside of her former home that she lived in for 25 years in Issaquah on May 17, 2021. Porter lost her home when she filed for bankruptcy in 2015 because the Washington Law that was meant to prevent this from happening had not kept up with rising home prices. A new law aims to keep people in their homes if they file for bankruptcy, raising the protected amount to better match King County’s medium home price. (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut)
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by Nathalie Graham • May 12, 2021 at 9:15 am
After over 20 years, Seattle is going to do something about this dumb eviction workaround. LESTER BLACK
In today s Seattle City Council sustainability and renters rights committee, Councilmember Tammy Morales will unveil legislation to close Seattle s fixed-term lease loophole, which allows landlords to evict people on yearlong leases without reason by not renewing their lease.
Even though Seattle secured just-cause protections laws that prohibit landlords from evicting tenants without reason in 1980, this glaring loophole in those rules consistently leaves tenants in the lurch. Sponsored See Cherdonna alongside her creator in this hour-long feature dance film presentation.
by Tim Gruver, The Center Square | May 11, 2021 02:00 PM Print this article
Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill on Monday that effectively ends landlords rights to refuse to renew a lease without cause.
HB 1236 builds on Washington s Residential Landlord Tenant Act, which sets duties and privileges endowed to landlords and tenants. Under state law, landlords may choose not to renew leases between six months and a year with 20 days notice and without cause.
HB 1236 extends that notice period to 90 days and limits evictions or refusal to renew tenancies to 16 different scenarios. They include failure to pay, the sale or demolition of the property by the owner, four violations of a subsidized housing agreement, intentional or knowing misrepresentation on a tenant application or a legitimate business reason on the landlord s part.
Washington creates permanent rental assistance program By Brandon Block, The Olympian
Published: May 3, 2021, 8:04am
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OLYMPIA The idea of rental assistance the government stepping in to pay people’s rent to prevent them from losing their home is not new, but it has taken on a new prominence and urgency in the pandemic, as billions of federal dollars have helped pull tenants out from under mounting debt.
Now, Washington state is making that policy permanent.
Legislators passed a bill on the penultimate day of the session that creates a dedicated funding source for ongoing rental assistance through a $100 surcharge on recorded documents.