Letter to Legislature Ahead of Session: Be Efficient, Listen to Housing Providers

December 3, 2020 Dear Legislator,  These are difficult and challenging times. Federal, state, and local government have implemented measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 that have meant job and income loss. This income loss has created housing insecurity. Eviction bans do nothing to ameliorate this. On the contrary, eviction bans have encouraged some concerned […]

Governor Inslee: Where is the Rent Relief?

Our comments on the latest Covid-19 interventions announced by Governor Inslee. November 15, 2020 In a press conference yesterday Governor Jay Inslee announced a new set of interventions intended to stop the spread of Covid-19 — these measures will also disrupt the economy and create job and income loss.  Since March, the Governor has done […]

Senator Kuderer: Misinformed or Dishonest?

State Senator Patty Kuderer is the Chair of the Senate’s housing committee. She is a personal injury attorney as a profession. Over the years she’s held lots of “stakeholder” sessions in Olympia about eviction bans. Eviction lawyers tend to do very well after her sessions are finished. We know what happens in housing stakeholder sessions […]