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Back to News Center In 2023, REALTORS® won an important victory when the legislature exempted short-term seller rent-back agreements from the coverage of the Washington Residential Landlord-Tenant Act (RLTA). However, a trial court eviscerated the exemption in Federal Way where voters approved eviction protections for tenants that are broader than…
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Back to News Center Homeownership Demonstration Ordinance Seattle King County REALTORS® have requested the Planning Commission recommend to the City Council, and the City Council adopt, an ordinance making the Affordable Housing “demonstration” code provisions (regarding affordable housing homeownership) a permanent ordinance in the city code. As a result of…
Read More Back to News Center House Bill 1220 requires cities to plan to accommodate housing that is affordable to households that typically need government subsidies to obtain housing. It allows cities to collect a small sales tax to help fund those efforts. Recently, state law was amended to provide cities with…
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Back to News Center A dispute that has been simmering since mid-2023 between the City of Burien and the King County Sheriff’s Office escalated in March when Patti Cole-Tindall sued the city in federal district court over a new ordinance passed by the city council. The Sheriff’s new legal action…
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Back to News Center Burien is one of several cities in King County that does not have its own Police Department, and instead contracts with the King County Sheriff’s Office for police services. Burien wants the Sheriff’s office to remove homeless campers from a city-owned vacant lot, but Sheriff Patti…
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