Senator Kuderer: Misinformed or Dishonest?
State Senator Patty Kuderer is the Chair of the Senate’s housing committee. She is a personal injury attorney as a profession. Over the years she’s held lots of “stakeholder” sessions in Olympia about eviction bans. Eviction lawyers tend to do very well after her sessions are finished. We know what happens in housing stakeholder sessions […]
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 […]
Small Housing Providers Speak Up Against Eviction Ban Extension
A group called Seattle Grassroots Landpeople held a Zoom town hall meeting earlier today to express their concerns and opposition to an expansion and extension of Seattle’s eviction ban. Today we found out the Council appears prepared to pass this extension anyway next Monday, May 4th. We’ve been pushing people for weeks to contact the […]
