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 temporarily halts rent bidding. ... The ban comes as Seattle is navigating an affordable housing crisis driven by strong job growth in tech and other sectors.

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 ...

Richard has lived in Seattle for 32 years. In 2001, he moved into a small, one-bedroom apartment on Capitol Hill, where rent was $650 a month. In 2013, new building owners made some general ...

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 ...

Patricia Divine Wilder knew her rent would be going up again, as it had for several previous years. When she spoke with Crosscut earlier this year, Divine Wilder paid $1,045 a month for her former ...

SEATTLE — Seattle is on track to ban landlords’ use of controversial rent-setting software that has been under legal fire for years. A Seattle City Council committee on Wednesday advanced a ...

This will significantly expand Seattle’s affordable housing supply and adds to the rising wave of long-overdue, popular policies confronting the root causes of the housing crisis.