WA renters win rent stabilization!

The Governor just signed rent stabilization into law! For the first time ever, we are now protected against extreme rent increases.

This is a huge win for working people over greedy corporate landlords! How’d we do it? We organized, coming together as renters and manufactured homeowners, as students and retirees, as nurses and millworkers—and together we defeated the big money of corporate real estate lobbyists.

Rent stabilization will help working parents like Brenda, a Firelands member from Elma, breathe easier. Here’s what Brenda had to say to Cascade PBS:

$100—it’s like worth a week of groceries for my kids, it’s half of my energy bill, it’s a pair of shoes for my kids, it’s even having to choose to have a Saturday evening at the movies, or an ice cream or something. We have the right to enjoy life.”

Read the full article here, and check out additional coverage of this victory in the Associated Press here.