Hawaii: Working to Get Broad Rent Relief
I’ve been working with Ryan Tanaka a business owner and advocate in Hawaii to get broad rent relief from the federal government in their next financial stimulus. Tanaka has lead the effort on commercial rent relief looking for solid quantitative measures of the impact. I’ve written about the findings of the survey just completed at […]
Support the State’s Rent Relief Program — But With Improvements
The good news is that the Washington State Commerce Department is planning a $100 million rent relief program to help offset unpaid rent resulting from COVID-19 interventions (including the impacts of eviction bans). The bad news is that the program has too many limits, including on income, and is not easy to access. You can […]
2020: We Still Have A Long Way To Go
This is the text from our latest newsletter. Please consider making a contribution today so we can keep up our advocacy efforts. Thank you! This year may go down as the longest one in our lifetimes. . We’re only about half way through: What’s next? My biggest concern on the horizon is rent “forgiveness,” the […]
