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Notes from this morning’s Council Briefing

On 07/18/2016 By Kevin Schofield In bicycling, council briefing, housing, police, tax, transportation

Some quick hits from this morning’s Council Briefing, mostly about new legislation about to be introduced.

Protecting tenants from housing discrimination turns out to be tricky

On 06/14/2016 By Kevin Schofield In committee, housing

Filed under “adventures in legal sausage-making…” The Civil Rights, Utilities, Economic Development and Arts Committee began deliberation on an ordinance that would modify the city’s housing code to provide additional protections for tenants against discrimination by landlords, and especially based on the source(s) of income being used to pay the rent. But it quickly turned into a messy — and possibly intractable — endeavor.

City aims to curb housing discrimination

On 05/25/2016 By Kevin Schofield In committee, housing

In any free market system, scarcity creates power, and power leads to abuse. Seattle is experiencing that now with the rental housing market, and City Hall is taking steps to stop the worst of those abuses by limiting housing discrimination.