The TU Education Program Clinic and Hotline will be CLOSED Monday in observance of Veterans Day. All services will resume on their regular schedule the rest of the week.
The City of Seattle has passed a Rental Registration & Inspection Ordinance, and it will be important for you to know what are your rights! There is a lot of misinformation out there on this important piece of local legislation, and we wanted to dispel a lot of the myth's about the new law.
Victory! After a 5 year campaign -- and almost 20 years for the TU -- the City Council unanimously voted in the Rental Housing Registration & Inspection Program, a bill that will dramatically shift the power imbalance between landlords and tenants and hold the slumlords in our community accountable.
As of June 7th Washington State tenants are provided greater transparency now that landlords are required to disclose in writing both the reason why a tenant is denied housing and what criteria they will use in their rental decision. These new laws are a hard fought victory for the TU, its members, tenant leaders, and allies like the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance, and others.