The proposed changes to tenant law in Seattle have been an open secret in city government and long expected. Despite housing providers’ insistence that the proposals are minor and beneficial to ...

City Council members in the Washington city unanimously approved banning a software class that aggregates information on ...

Rent control has come to Washington state — state lawmakers capped rent hikes at 10% this year — while Seattle councilmembers ...

A Seattle housing nonprofit, the Housing Development Consortium (HDC), is advocating for changes to Seattle’s tenant protection laws. Proposed changes include repealing the "roommate ordinance ...

RELATED: Councilmember Kshama Sawant proposes rent control law for Seattle tenants. Rent in Seattle has gone up 92% in the last decade, while the median household income only went up 47% in that ...

The laws have spread from Seattle to other local cities, and more changes may be on the way as advocates band together. Here’s what the laws do and why they’re controversial.

Seattle City Council Puts Renter Protections ... which laws she would like to change. ... mom and pop” landlords did not directly relate to new tenant laws between 2016 and 2022 but ...

Though the biggest item he signed into law was the rent stabilization bill that was a hot topic for lawmakers this year. Under House Bill 1217 , annual rent increases are limited to the lesser of ...