Investigations
Tumwater mobile home tenants lobby against rent hikes
As manufactured home communities in Washington become less affordable, residents have increasingly organized to galvanize support and push policy.
Ashli Blow
Ashli Blow is a Seattle-based freelance writer who talks with people — in places from urban watersheds to remote wildernesses — about the environment around them. She’s been working in journal
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Investigations
Why have Washington eviction cases doubled in the past six months?
Billions in federal pandemic aid masked dysfunction in the rental market. But that money is gone — along with some legal protections.
News
High grocery costs challenge Washington families, food banks
Nearly 29,000 households in King County don’t have enough income to cover household basics, according to data from the University of Washington.
News
‘A partial solution’: A closer look at the new WA Cares Fund
The long-term care tax program has already stoked controversy, with critics saying the $36,500 benefit is too small to be meaningful.
Investigations
‘Home was never a place’: One woman’s life in WA foster care
Now 30, Janell Braxton says she continues to reckon with the separations and instability stemming from her time in the foster system.