SB 5222 and HB 1217 are similar bills making progress through the Washington legislature. They both have the headline feature of an annual cap of 7% on rent increases and they are both full of a whole truck load of other regulations, conditions and new bureaucracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reading through the bills reminds me of an old joke: There are two things that you don’t want to see how they are made: sausages and laws.<\/em> If you, however, want to bury yourself in the guts of the political process, you can find it all here: SB 5222<\/a> HB 1217<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Or the same summary for both bills: Importantly, the bills also allow individual causes of action rather than relying solely on the Attorney General.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Republican minority in the legislature has proposed the more targeted alternative of improving rental assistance to low-income individuals along with other measures to improve the overall supply of more affordable housing. Their bills, however, appear to be going nowhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By the way, the 7% cap would mean our space rent could only increase by $91 instead of the usual $100 and we would have 180 days’ notice rather than 90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SB 5222 and HB 1217 are similar bills making progress through the Washington legislature. They both have the headline feature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cascadeparkestates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Olynpia-capital.jpg?fit=312%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cascadeparkestates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cascadeparkestates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cascadeparkestates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cascadeparkestates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cascadeparkestates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cascadeparkestates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"https:\/\/cascadeparkestates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cascadeparkestates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cascadeparkestates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cascadeparkestates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cascadeparkestates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Improving housing stability for tenants subject to the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured\/mobile home landlord-tenant act by limiting rent and fee increases, requiring notice of rent and fee increases, limiting fees and deposits, establishing a landlord resource center and associated services, authorizing tenant lease termination, creating parity between lease types, and providing for attorney general enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n