Hope your favorite local business has a nice landlord, a lot of money, and a lawyer. CM
When Mayor Bruce Harrell decided to lift Seattle’s residential and commercial eviction moratoria, he said he set out to balance the needs of tenants and landlords. But it looks like his decision will simply readjust the scales in favor of landlords, even for small businesses.
After I asked for the mayor’s plan for small businesses facing eviction, a spokesperson for Harrell said he would work with the city’s Office of Economic Development (OED) to “convene a small group of impacted BIPOC-owned businesses to hear directly about how the moratorium has affected their business
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