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Tenant Relocation Assistance offered at Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections
Requires landlords to offer tenants relocation assistance if they live in the city of Seattle and must move out of their rental unit due to redevelopment or code violations.
Requires landlords to offer tenants, early notice and, for low income-tenants, relocation assistance if tenants must move out of their rental unit due to:
- The unit being torn down or renovated
- The unit's use being changed
- The unit being illegal
- The landlord being required to reduce the number of unrelated tenants living there
- The unit being ordered vacated and closed
- Emergency conditions caused by the landlord.
Relocation assistance is paid directly to the tenant.
Also requires landlords to give a reason for asking a tenant to move.
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Relocation Assistance
Landlord Rights Information/Counseling
Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Manufactured/Mobile Home Relocation Assistance and Relocation Coordination offered by Washington State Department of Commerce
Provides relocation assistance and coordination to mobile home owners who are displaced due to park closure or conversion to another use. Provides cash assistance up to $11,000 for a single-section home or up to $17,000 for a multi-section home.
Provides relocation assistance for manufactured/mobile home owners who must relocate due to community closure or community conversion to another use.
The programs were established through state laws that allow household support through the closure process and a combination of cash assistance for eligible homeowners and reimbursement of actual demolition and disposal costs for community owners.
Eligible tenants may receive cash assistance up to $11,000 for a single-section home or up to $17,000 for a multi-section home. Cash assistance is provided in two payments: the first when a household is determined eligible, the second when a household either signs over title of their home to the community owner or upon removal of their home from the community.
Community owners may seek reimbursement from the Relocation Assistance Program for allowable demolition and disposal costs associated with eligible households. Community owners may request up to $5,500 for a single-section home and up to $8,500 for a multi-section home.
Manufactured/Mobile Home Relocation Assistance Program and Relocation Coordination Program Managers work with resident homeowners in closing manufactured/mobile home communities to help them with the application and financial assistance processes as well as housing transition.
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Relocation Assistance
Economic Displacement Relocation Assistance offered at Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections
Provides financial assistance to tenants who have been informed by their landlords of any housing cost increase totaling 10% or more within the same 12 month period.
Provides financial assistance to tenants who have been informed by their landlords of any housing cost increase totaling 10% or more within the same 12 month period and the tenant decides to move.
The City will process tenant applications and advance payment of three times the current monthly housing cost to eligible households.
All rental housing cost increases in Seattle require 180 days advance written notice.
When an increase equals or exceeds 10% in a 12 month period, by a single increase or multiple increases, landlords must attach an EDRA notice that informs tenants about the program.
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Relocation Assistance
Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Landlord Rights Information/Counseling
