A new report shows rent in Seattle is up over the past year, pushing affordability out of reach for many renters without a ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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

Washington Policy Center's Mark Harmsworth argues that raising the minimum wage does not address the root causes of ...

In a 2021 housing-needs analysis, the city found Seattle had a shortage of nearly 21,000 affordable rental units ... to meet the scale of the housing crisis, doing more than ever to prevent ...

The Puget Sound region faces an ever-increasing housing affordability crisis, fueled in part by low ... to increase housing production and lower rent pressures by focusing on three key drivers ...

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.

Seattle is facing a housing crisis, with more then 13,000 people in the county experiencing homelessness amid a shortage of nearly 30,000 affordable ... units for sale and rent, as well as ...