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Renters

Stay Housed Campaign Launches with King County Tenants Rights Push

A group of tenant advocates and progressive organizations are banding together to push for new renter protections in a “Stay Housed, Stay Healthy” campaign,...
Advocates hold red signs backing rent control and housing the homeless.

Tenant Advocates Win Seattle Eviction Ban Extension and Press for Broader Reforms

Earlier this month, a 47-group-strong coalition urged Mayor Jenny Durkan to extend Seattle's eviction moratorium through the end of the year. That pressure has...
Downtown Tacoma's stretch of Pacific Avenue hosts the Tacoma Link streetcar. (Photo by Doug Trumm)

Zoomers Flock to Tacoma over Pricey Seattle

You would have to be quite old to remember when it was cheaper to live in the city than the countryside. It’s been a...
A "Missing Large Housing" graphic shows a range of midrise and highrise housing options between six-story "five over one" and pencil skyscrapers, including social housing and shared ownership options like baugruppe. "The middle class lives here in industrialized societies," a label notes.

Missing Large Housing and Berkeley’s Push to End Apartment Bans

Historically, Berkeley has been a hotbed of resistance to new housing and an innovator in excluding people of color. In fact, Berkeley was the...

Coalition Urges Mayor to Extend the Eviction Moratorium

At month's end, the eviction moratorium is scheduled to expire, which would put thousands of tenants at risk. A broad coalition spearheaded by the...

These Housing Bills Need a Boost as Cutoff Looms

State senators and representatives are scrambling to get their bills out of committee with a "Do Pass" recommendation before the cutoff on Monday, February...

National Social Housing Plan Urges Creation of 12 Million of Homes

Since the Reagan administration, the federal government has gotten out of the game of producing social housing itself. A new report titled "The Case...

Midweek Video: Millions of Americans Can’t Pay Rent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F07yTI0J3Qk Vox explains why eviction is a crisis in America and what might or might not be done about it.