Advocacy

For years, independent housing providers across Washington State have absorbed the financial consequences of aggressive rental legislation; lost...

RHAWA Regent Steve Corker explains why Spokane’s proposed cooling ordinance could unintentionally displace naturally affordable rental housing and...

The Spokane City Council is considering an ordinance, the proposed Renters’ Right to Cooling (SMC 10.57.175), that would require landlords to...

There is a term in housing policy, Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing, or NOAH, that most rental housing providers have probably never heard,...

The same organization that delivered Tacoma's onerous 2023 Landlord Fairness Code (FKA as Measure 1 or Initiative 1, AKA Tenant Bill of Rights or...

The most dangerous policy is one that works exactly as advertised, right up until it doesn’t. The damage from simple solutions applied to...

Now that April has arrived, the 2026 Legislative Session has officially been over for around two weeks. This year’s legislative session had...

RHAWA Members: Take the State Housing Task Force Survey Washington housing providers need to be heard on the proposed Department of Housing

“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly...

At the time of writing this article, the 2026 Legislative Session is around halfway done and this year is certainly one of the most interesting...

The real estate industry has launched a coordinated legal challenge against the State of Washington, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief...

Think back to 2020. I know it can sometimes be hard to return to an era in our state where so many things were up in the air, everything was...