New provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act could help finance more than a million units of low-income housing over the next decade. The changes are complicated but will increase assistance both ...

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Activists in Seattle gather signatures to put a social housing initiative on the ballot. In early 2025, voters passed the measure, which implements a payroll tax on high incomes to fund the program.

See Correction/Clarification at the end of this article. Housing affordability has emerged as a signature issue across the country, for both renters and homebuyers, especially since the pandemic.

Seattle astounded housing advocates around the country in February 2025, when roughly two-thirds of voters approved a ballot initiative proposing a new 5% payroll tax on salaries in excess of US$1 ...

When Allison Luke received an eviction notice at her home in Lynn in November 2023, she didn’t even bother looking for a new one in the usual places. Luke knew without looking that she couldn’t afford ...

In much of the United States, a six-figure salary once signaled security. Now, for a family of four facing rent, child care ...

A 75-home development in Redmond for people transitioning out of homelessness secured its first portion of funding for the project: a $3 million award from a federal banking group. The award keeps the ...

Without a housing voucher program, I would not be able to go to school for a degree in social work and be able to provide a ...

Every four months, Philippe Knab, the reentry and eviction defense program director for Washington’s Office of Civil Legal Aid, compiles a report on eviction trends across the state. Since 2021, each ...