Dazed and Confused: Tenant Landlord Regulation Isn’t Housing Policy
State Representative Nicole Macri and State Senator Patty Kuderer are either profoundly confused or misled. They seem to think that toying with landlord tenant law — really contract law — is housing policy. It isn’t. It’s contract law. However, whenever they get drawn into the swamp of minutiae of how rental contracts are regulated, they […]
Oh Boy. Here We Go. Seattle Banning Credit Checks?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: We are seeing the slow erosion of private rental property in Seattle and the United States. But the takeover of housing by government is speeding up. Last week the Seattle Renters’ Commission wrote a long letter to the Seattle City Council urging the end of credit […]
Please Shelve SB 5160: Work on Real Solutions
January 12, 2021 Greetings members of the Senate Housing and Local Government Committee, Once again the Chair has chosen to take a scorched earth approach to eviction with SB 5160, a bill written by, for, and with eviction defense attorneys. Nothing in this legislation will help a single mother with two jobs that lost them […]
