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Washington scrambles to avoid mass evictions as moratorium nears end


Washington scrambles to avoid mass evictions as moratorium nears end
Tenants and landlords both favor more rent assistance, but some want lawmakers to go further.
By David Kroman, Crosscut
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Arianna Laureano outside of her boyfriend’s Seattle home on Feb. 3, 2021. Laureano has been relying on Washington’s eviction moratorium, which is set to end on March 31. (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut)
For every month since evictions were banned in Washington last March, tenants in the state accrued somewhere around $100 million in owed rent. By that estimate which comes from the state Department of Commerce renters here could now be over $1 billion in debt, a sum that grows each week. ....

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WA scrambles to avoid mass evictions as moratorium nears end


Tenants and landlords both favor more rent assistance, but some want lawmakers to go further.
by
Arianna Laureano outside of her boyfriend’s Seattle home on Feb. 3, 2021. Laureano has been relying on Washington’s eviction moratorium, which is set to end on March 31. (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut)
For every month since evictions were banned in Washington last March, tenants in the state accrued somewhere around $100 million in owed rent. By that estimate which comes from the state Department of Commerce renters here could now be over $1 billion in debt, a sum that grows each week.
Even as that number swells, the end to the state’s eviction moratorium is coming into view. After Gov. Jay Inslee extended the moratorium multiple times, most lawmakers, lobbyists and advocates expect March 31 will mark its true end at least at the state level. Then the question of what will happen to renters without the moratorium’s blunt relief will go from hypothetical to ve ....

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