SEATTLE - State law currently bans it, but some city leaders are pushing for rent control as a way to cool the red-hot housing market that's pricing tenants out of their homes. "They try to say ...

As Seattle’s population rapidly grows, the city faces a mounting housing crisis marked by rising rents, limited affordable ...

Not so long ago, Seattle was one of the more affordable places to rent or buy compared with other cities along the West Coast. No more. As my colleague Sanjay Bhatt reported last week, investors ...

Rent control not only fails to address the housing affordability crisis, it exacerbates the issue in the long term. John Okamoto is a member of the Seattle City Council. Recommended in ...

Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant is back with an idea she’s long been pushing: rent control.If it is ever enacted, every Seattle landlord, big or small, will be subject to it.

About a year after moving to Seattle from Washington, D.C., tenants Elizabeth Black and Aaron Milner got notice this fall that if they renewed their lease, the rent for their one-bedroom apartment ...

The measure would generate $970 million over seven years to go toward building more affordable housing, as well as the operation and maintenance of those units, according to Seattle Mayor Bruce ...

Analysis at Governing.org says 47 % of Seattle renters are rent-burdened, paying more than 30% of income for rent. Currently, in order to afford a median 2-bedroom apartment ($2796 per month), you ...

the government could make huge headway in solving the rental affordability crisis. The most obvious option would be to expand the existing Housing Choice Voucher program, also known as Section 8. The ...

Mayoral Challenger Calls for Rent Control, ‘More Aggressive’ Affordable Housing Demands on Developers. Nikkita Oliver says Mayor Murray’s HALA plan “is not a bad thing…It is simply not ...

Morales continued to argue that the data could give the council a deeper understanding of the affordability crisis in Seattle, push them to make major investments in housing, and to help them ...

But these gains haven't been distributed equally. A report released this week by Seattle-based real estate date firm Zillow claims there is a strong connection between cities with rising rents and ...