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During the second city-sponsored mayoral debate, candidates clashed on the Rent Guidelines Board, and got into the weeds ...
Rent control doesn't work; it makes things worse for poor renters. Yet Washington state has imposed it anyway.
Rent control is a useful and underutilized tool in addressing California's housing crisis, according to a study by USC, UCLA, ...
SEATTLE — Rent increases in Washington state cannot exceed 10% this year under a new law signed by Gov. Bob Ferguson earlier this month, state officials said Friday. The law, which includes some ...
The Power Four wants more There are plenty of ongoing disputes between the NCAA's most dominant conferences, but a desire for more control isn't one of them. Rumors of the SEC separating from the ...
Democratic Gov. Jared Polis has vetoed a bill that would have made Colorado the first state to ban landlords from using rent-setting algorithms, which many advocates have blamed for driving up ...
After decades of banning rent control, state lawmakers this year approved ... relies on Consumer Price Index measurements for the Seattle area. State law directs the Department of Commerce to ...
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At the start of the year, the Seattle region, along with rest of the country, was grappling with a chronic need for affordable housing, with a shortfall of 71,060 homes.
Data company RealPage is confronted with state and local efforts to ban its algorithmic pricing system for landlords in the rental-apartment market. Now, a provision buried in House Republicans ...
Housing market experts say rent control is a factor in Seattle having one of the biggest cost gaps between renting and buying. According to a recent study from Bankrate, the Seattle metro area has a ...