If passed, the bill would cap annual rent increases at 7% and bar any rent increase during a tenant’s first year.

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Hope House, once a shelter operating 24-hours a day in Spokane, will now only open at night. This comes as the shelter is in the process of moving over 100 people out before it ...

Out of Sight, out of Mind is a series in which Clark Curtis takes a closer look at homelessness in Washington. Speaking with ...

Lawmakers filed into the Capitol building in Olympia, Washington on Monday, Jan. 13, the first day of the 2025 session.

The bill would prohibit landlords from raising a residential tenant’s rent and fees more than 7% in any 12-month period.

In Bob Ferguson’s start as Washington's governor, his centrist streak on tax and budget issues has thrilled independents, ...

The bill includes an annual rent increase cap of 7% for residential tenants and places limits on late and move-in fees for manufactured homes.

Some bills that address housing and homelessness are still alive in the Washington State Legislature, but a deadline looms ...

President Donald Trump has said he wants his new education chief, Linda McMahon, to “put herself out of a job” and close the ...

Wages are also driving the gap between supply and demand. Early learning and child care wages remain incredibly low, with ...

It’s like the movie “Groundhog Day” for Let’s Go Washington, which introduced an initiative Tuesday to protect parents’ ...

and two indoor cats have contracted bird flu in WA. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Ruby de Luna. Seattle retools its approach to homelessness outreach ...