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Eviction Record Limitations and Mandated Payment Plans Pass

This is an excerpt from an update email I sent to supporters and explains what the City Council passed yesterday. There is a clip at the end from KIRO where I was interviewed. The first bill the Council passed was CB 119787, legislation that disallows, in effect, screening a potential resident out for an eviction during the emergency […]

There’s More Ill Considered Housing Legislation Coming

The City Council has become a factory for bad housing policy. Last week the Council hurriedly passed legislation that would, in effect, extend the emergency ban on evictions for six months, a period that will extend into the winter eviction ban which lasts until February of 2021. But that’s not enough. Without any debate, on […]

Council Extends the Eviction Ban: You Were Ignored

The Seattle City Council went ahead and passed an extension to the COVID-19 eviction ban. Here’s the email I sent out to our mailing list. It is a short explanation and has a link to a key staff person in the Mayor’s office if you’d like to urge a veto. That likely will not happen […]