Seattle is on track to ban landlords' use of controversial rent-setting software that has been under legal fire for years. A ...

"I notice it with my neighbors and how they have to move out a lot." Seattle is facing an affordable housing crisis and rent control got kicked around as a possible solution during a Town Hall ...

But unlike the minimum wage, Seattle can’t go it alone on rent control. Washington banned it statewide ... She and those working with her are addressing what they see as the deepest crisis of ...

HB 1110 is state legislation that effectively eliminates and replaces all of Seattle’s exclusive ... of the somewhat affordable housing in our city. This brings us to rent control.

SEATTLE – The Seattle ... would have capped annual residential rent increases at the rate of inflation in an attempt to make rental housing more affordable. It failed on a vote of 6-2.

A proposed bill prohibiting algorithmic rent fixing via residential housing market data software faces final approval by the ...

This story is part of a Seattle Times focus on the affordability crisis in the Northwest ... were thrown headfirst into Seattle’s current rental market? It happened to Jennifer Snook-Tracy ...

Seattle city leaders are asking voters to approve a housing levy to build 3,000 new affordable housing units and fund other initiatives to help address the housing and homelessness crisis the city ...

“The next rent raise was going to be out of my reach. That’s what was weighing heavily on me,” she said. Divine Wilder’s situation shows the urgency many feel as affordability ...

A 2025 report from PODS reveals Seattle is among the top cities experiencing resident outflow, with affordability issues ...

The lawsuit alleges that RealPage, a Texas software company that provides tools to landlords to determine rental ... on housing affordability and possibly worsened the housing crisis.