Macri stated that her bill, “helps ensure that the rental assistance the legislature has already provided will be used for its intended purpose: keeping people in their homes and allowing landlords to collect their rent.” The legislation gives a tenant the right to defend themselves by ensuring the landlord has to cite a legitimate cause to evict.
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Landlords will also retain their right to make business or personal decisions about how to use their rental property. It does not require a landlord to renew a lease with a tenant upon expiration of the lease, and a tenant denying to sign a new lease is a cause to end a tenancy under the “other good cause” provisions of the bill.
Under a just cause standard, landlords will maintain all the rights they currently possess to end a tenancy or to evict a tenant, they simply need to disclose a reason for doing so and give the appropriate time. I want to be clear-stopping evictions means preventing homelessness.,” said Macri on final passage of the bill. “The bill before us is simple-it requires landlords to provide a reason to tenants when they ask them to move out of their home. Nicole Macri ending no-cause evictions by requiring landlords to provide rental tenants a legitimate business reason to end their tenancy.
OLYMPIA-The Washington House of Representatives today passed legislation introduced by Rep.