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#644 - Biden Under Fire For Delays On Rental Aid Just 6.5% Distributed As End Of Eviction Moratorium Looms
July 29, 2021 11:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBState and local officials have managed to dole out just $3 billion of the over $46 billion in rental aid allocated by Congress for the coronavirus pandemic, according to Treasury Department data released Wednesday, as the looming expiration of the federal eviction moratorium at the end of this month prompts mounting criticism of the Biden administration’s management of the aid program. The Treasury Department reported more than $1.5 billion in assistance was delivered to eligible household...
#643 - What will become of the land the Surfside condo is on in South Florida?
July 29, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBEven as the search for victims of the Surfside condominium collapse continues, a question has surfaced: What will become of the land? Although beachfront property is a hot commodity in South Florida, survivors, families who lost loved ones and neighbors are struggling to imagine another apartment building or hotel in a space that has suffered so much loss. Instead, many condominium owners have expressed hope that the government will purchase the property and build a memorial park. The poss...
#642 - Drive-by shootings up 100% in Seattle; shootings at 5-year high in King County
July 28, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBWe’ve felt the uptick in gun violence, but now new numbers show the true severity of that surge. The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s latest report on shootings in the county released on Thursday says 197 people have been shot so far this year – up 61% over the past four-year average. “What we’re seeing right now is a very disturbing trend. It doesn’t show any signs of slowing down – often one act of gun violence will provoke another will provoke another,” said Dan Satterberg, the King Co...
#641 - Neighbors upset with proposed homeless campsites in Austin
July 28, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBThe City of Austin has announced two locations for proposed, city-run homeless camps. The first preliminary site is a three-acre lot at 3511 Manor Road, just east of Airport Road. The second is a larger lot in southwest Austin at 4011 Convict Hill Road, directly off MoPac. The locations are far from final. There will be a city council work session to discuss the two sites next Tuesday, July 27. Then public feedback will be welcomed in August through community meetings and surveys via Speak...
#640 - Leading Seattle mayoral candidate doesn’t pay rent, allegedly owes 20k
July 27, 2021 11:00 - 22 minutes - 16 MBThe Seattle mayoral candidate who has raised the most funding from Democracy Vouchers — far more than his establishment opponents — owes over $20,000 in back rent, according to the company that manages the apartment building where he resides. With nearly $412,000 raised, housing advocate Andrew Grant Houston surprised opponents and the media with his fundraising prowess. Almost 85% of his fundraising comes from Seattle’s Democracy Voucher program. That is far more than any other candidate, ...
#639 - San Francisco Officials Announce Police Deployment Aimed At Protecting Tourists
July 27, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 16.6 MBOfficials in San Francisco on Monday announced plans to increase police foot and bicycle patrols in areas heavily traveled by tourists to safeguard visitors who might be targeted by thieves. Mayor London N. Breed and San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott appeared at the landmark Dragon’s Gate in Chinatown to provide details on the new community policing plan and additional officer deployment. With reduced COVID-19 restrictions allowing for the return of travelers to the city, officials esti...
#638 - Crews to clear homeless camp near I-90 that has been linked to rock attacks on motorists
July 26, 2021 11:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBCrews from the state and city of Seattle are scheduled Thursday to remove a homeless camp that overlooks the eastbound lanes of Interstate 90 and has been in place for years after two of its residents were linked to rock attacks on unsuspecting motorists. The decision was made after a recent site survey by Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste and a captain declared the site an "imminent threat to public safety." The city posted removal warnings in and around the camp Tuesday to notif...
#637 - Portland City Commissioner Criticised for Saying Police Couldn't Prevent Recent Mass Shooting
July 26, 2021 10:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBIn the wake of a weekend shooting in Portland’s Entertainment District that wounded 6 and left an 18-year-old dead, the ongoing debate about police staffing in Portland has once again come into view. Makayla Maree Harris was shot and killed on SW 3rd Avenue around 2 a.m. Saturday. No one has been arrested for the shooting, and no suspect information has been released. Makayla Harris “will never grow up to be whatever she was going to be in life,” said Portland Police Association President ...
#636 - Two dozen cases of debris thrown at drivers in Seattle in two weeks, spurring calls for action
July 25, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBSeattle is now averaging more than two cases every day with debris thrown at drivers, mostly near downtown Seattle. Washington State Patrol, working with Seattle police, have arrested 4 people in the last couple of weeks. Yet, another case of rocks thrown from an overpass happened just Friday morning near the Washington State Convention Center. Troopers say no one was hurt in this latest case. But the continued surge has drivers are calling on leaders to take action to stop the crimes. “...
#635 - Oregon Is the First State to Ban those Real Estate ‘Love Letters’
July 24, 2021 10:00 - 22 minutes - 15.5 MBOver the years, Portlander Kate Fulford has seen more than of her share of love letters. Not the romantic kind, bound up in ribbon, smelling faintly of lilac and sighs, and stashed in an attic trunk, ideally to be found one day by unsuspecting future generations. Fulford, a realtor with Think Real Estate, is talking about the kind of letters that would-be buyers write to try and sway sellers in a hot real estate market like Portland’s, the kind that includes family pictures and promises to...
#634 - Mass Shooting Kills 18-Year-Old Woman Near Downtown Portland Food Carts
July 23, 2021 10:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBA mass shooting in downtown Portland, shortly before last call on Saturday morning, killed an 18-year-old woman and injured six others near a line of food carts in what police described as “an extremely chaotic scene.” Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell said the killing, along with another fatal shooting four hours later in the Parkrose neighborhood, in deep Northeast Portland, marked the city’s 50th and 51st homicides of the year. Portland saw 55 homicides in 2020, a 26-year record but one...
#633 - Inflation could prompt largest Social Security cost-of-living adjustment in decades
July 23, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 16.6 MBThe Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for 2022 could be 6.1% due to inflation, according to a new estimate. That would be the biggest increase since 1983, according to non-partisan advocacy group The Senior Citizens League, which calculated the figure. It’s also a bump up from last month’s estimate, when the increase for next year was expected to be 5.3%. The new estimate comes as the Consumer Price Index in June increased 5.4% from a year earlier, the largest gain since August 200...
#632 - Tech workers swore off the Bay Area. Now they’re coming back
July 22, 2021 10:00 - 32 minutes - 22.9 MBLast year, Greg Osuri decided he had had enough of the Bay Area. Between smoke-choked air from nearby wildfires and the coronavirus lockdown, it felt as if the walls of his apartment in San Francisco’s Twin Peaks neighborhood were closing in on him. “It was just a hellhole living here,” said Osuri, 38, founder and chief executive of a cloud-computing company called Akash Network. He decamped for his sister’s roomy town house in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, joining an exodus of technol .. ...
#631 - Your property taxes are going up. Can you fight them????
July 22, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.6 MBSorry, kids. It’s not getting any easier to buy a home in Seattle. County property values have continued to rise and two Seattle neighborhoods including Capitol Hill led the way in 2020, according to the King County Assessor’s office. The office says median residential property values rose by 7.9% on Capitol Hill, and by 11.3% in the Ravenna/University District area in 2020. The message comes as the assessor is preparing homeowners and landlords for sticker shock as the annual process of ma...
#630 - Free heroin, cocaine and meth handed out outside of the Vancouver Police Department
July 21, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBAdvocates for a safe supply of drugs handed out heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine outside the Vancouver Police Department Wednesday (July 14) afternoon. City Councillor Jean Swanson, along with members of the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) and the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), distributed the free drugs outside the Vancouver Police Department. The collective action demonstrates the "life-saving potential of a community-led response to the crisis of prohibition in Cana...
#629 - US overdose deaths hit record 93,000 in pandemic last year
July 21, 2021 10:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBOverdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government reported Wednesday. That estimate far eclipses the high of about 72,000 drug overdose deaths reached the previous year and amounts to a 29% increase. “This is a staggering loss of human life,” said Brandon Marshall, a Brown University public health researcher who tracks overdose trends. The nation was already struggling with its worst overdose epidemic but clearly “COVID has grea...
#628 - Bar Owners struggle with violence due to Defund The Police
July 20, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBIt’s been less than two weeks since the state of Oregon fully reopened and bars are happy to have the business back but now they’re dealing with a whole new set of problems that many didn’t have before. “We’ve had to hire a door person we have to have security here now which we never had to have before,” Brian Gardes, owner of The Pharmacy in northwest Portland, said. Dardes and the co-owner of Dixie Tavern, Dan Lenzen, both said that they’ve been dealing with unruly, drunk and defiant cust...
#627 - These notices from landlords are beginning to show up at renters’ doors, stoking fears
July 20, 2021 10:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBNoah Braley received the text that would upend his plans for the next year a little over a week ago, on July 1 — your rent will be going up by a lot, his property manager wrote, but don’t freak out. “I’m like, ‘Excuse me, don’t freak out?’” said Braley, who has lived in the building since 2013, when he was still an urban planning student at Western Washington University. “How much is it?” The answer is $405, which Braley discovered when he returned home from his job as a line cook at Itali...
#626 - Inflation expectations surge, hitting new high for New York Fed survey
July 19, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.4 MBDespite the Federal Reserve’s assurance that current inflation pressures won’t last, consumers see things differently, according to a survey Monday from the central bank’s New York district. The June Survey of Consumer Expectations showed that median inflation expectations over the next 12 months jumped to 4.8%, a 0.8 percentage point rise from May and the highest reading in history for a series that goes back to 2013. While the outlook for the next three years remained unchanged at 3.6%, ...
#625 - Suspected gunman in Seattle CHOP zone homicide arrested more than a year later
July 19, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 20 MBAfter more than a year on the run, the man accused of fatally shooting 19-year-old Horace Lorenzo Anderson inside the six-block area that last summer was known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone was arrested Monday in Des Moines. Seattle police identified Marcel Long as the man suspected of killing Anderson within a day of the June 20, 2020, shooting at 10th Avenue and East Pine Street and learned Long, now 19, had fled the state, according to the first-degree murder charge filed ag...
#624 - Texas House Votes To Arrest Democrats Who Fled State To Block Voting Bill
July 18, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 16.6 MBOn July 12, Texas House Democrats packed their bags and headed for the nation’s capital in a high-profile effort to block passage of GOP-backed voting restrictions. Democrats hoped their exodus would break what’s called a quorum — the minimum number of lawmakers needed to conduct business — so Republicans couldn’t pass legislation that could ban drive-thru and 24-hour voting, among other sweeping restrictions. The move quickly garnered condemnation from Republican officials, who vowed to d...
#623 - Coordinated crime sprees forcing retailers to close stores, limit hours
July 17, 2021 10:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBCoordinated crime sprees in major cities in California, New York and elsewhere are forcing retailers to close stores and limit operating hours, as packs of shoplifters regularly make off with hundreds of dollars-worth in merchandise to be resold online, at street markets or returned for gift cards. Amid a crime wave sweeping San Francisco, five Target store locations are reducing operating hours, closing at 6 p.m. instead of the usual 10 p.m., as managers seek to secure merchandise and em...
#622 - Downtown Seattle business owners say recovery hinges on city addressing public safety
July 16, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.4 MBSeattle is working overtime to bring its downtown back. The loss of tourists and office workers the past year and a half left the area struggling. The city is pouring $9 million into the revitalization of downtown, which includes the retail core as well as Pike Place Market and Pioneer Square. Some city leaders, including Mayor Jenny Durkan, say recovery of the area is vital as it accounts for the majority of the city's tax revenue. But some business owners are skeptical of Seattle’s commit...
#621 - Downtown Seattle business owners say recovery hinges on city addressing public safety
July 16, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.3 MBSeattle is working overtime to bring its downtown back. The loss of tourists and office workers the past year and a half left the area struggling. The city is pouring $9 million into the revitalization of downtown, which includes the retail core as well as Pike Place Market and Pioneer Square. Some city leaders, including Mayor Jenny Durkan, say recovery of the area is vital as it accounts for the majority of the city's tax revenue. But some business owners are skeptical of Seattle’s commit...
#619 - San Francisco Political Leaders Out of Touch as City Descends Into Lawlessness
July 15, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.4 MBIf you don’t like the explosion of violent crime, you’re a racist. That’s the message sent by a top aide to the San Francisco district attorney to a self-described “Democrat” who had said on Twitter that the jump in crime had made people afraid for their lives and dubious about the city’s future. The Democrat tweeted that “every single one of my friends right now is considering leaving” San Francisco because of the big increase in crime, adding: “My friends are scared for their children, a...
#620 - Will upzoning neighborhoods make homes more affordable
July 15, 2021 10:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBHousing affordability is a growing issue in America, and there’s a battle over how to fix it happening on blocks across the country. Zoning—the rules that govern how cities use their land—is on the front line. Between 1986 and 2017, the median price of single-family housing in the U.S. rose from 370 percent of the median U.S. household’s yearly income to 410 percent, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Eleven million American households spend more than half their payc...
#618 - Public Records Officers File $5 Million Claim Against Seattle Mayor’s Missing Texts
July 14, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBThe public records officers who blew the whistle about Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s missing text messages earlier this year have filed claims against the city, alleging they felt compelled to resign after being subjected to hostile conditions and retaliation in the mayor’s office. The claims by Stacy Irwin and Kimberly Ferreiro each seek $5 million in damages. Under state law, claims must be filed at least 60 days before the city can be sued. Irwin and Ferreiro plan to sue if their claims a...
#617 - Jen Psaki: Professional gaslighter on defunding the police
July 14, 2021 10:00 - 32 minutes - 22.8 MBPolitics is the only area of American life in which “spinning” the news – attempting to control public opinion by giving a biased (and sometimes outright false) account of events – is not only accepted but celebrated. Many of us in this business love spin, particularly when it pushes a narrative that supports our own worldview. One recent example came from White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, who tried to spin the American Rescue Plan – the $1.9 trillion coronavirus rescue package – as...
#616 - ‘Rise of the Moors’ Standoff Shuts Down I-95: Who Are They and What Do They Believe?
July 13, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MBOver the weekend, a bizarre roadside standoff on a major highway in Massachusetts stymied holiday traffic for nearly nine hours before ending in 11 arrests of people from a militia group called Rise of the Moors, who law enforcement said described themselves as adhering to “Moorish sovereign ideology.” A little before 2 a.m. on Saturday, a Massachusetts State Trooper noticed two cars stopped on Interstate 95 with their hazard lights on, and people outside the cars attempting to fill up thei...
#615 - Downtown Portland food truck owners ‘don’t feel safe anymore’
July 13, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBThe owners of a downtown Portland food truck are closing their SW 2nd Avenue location over safety concerns. The owners of Veggie Bowl say vandalism, an upswing in Asian hate and changes to the environment have made it unsafe for them to operate downtown. Several food cart owners on SW 2nd Avenue told KOIN 6 News they also don’t feel safe at night and are frustrated with the state of downtown Portland. Many have been the target of vandalism and break-ins on several occasions. The Tokyo San...
#613 - Judge orders Minneapolis to add more police officers
July 12, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBA Minneapolis judge has sided with residents who sued the city over police staffing levels, saying the mayor and City Council failed to keep the adequate number of officers required by the municipal charter. Hennepin County Judge Jamie Anderson's order to add officers to the Minneapolis Police Department comes amid a citywide spike in violent crime and calls to defund the police after the May 2020 death of George Floyd. Anderson's ruling, delivered on Thursday, said Mayor Jacob Frey and t...
#614 - Rise In Violence: It’s Much Bigger Than Police
July 12, 2021 10:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBViolence surged in the U.S. throughout the coronavirus pandemic, but declining police morale and staffing shortages aren’t the only reason why there was an uptick. The growth of violence in the U.S. doesn’t seem to cut between party lines. Murders in Democrat-controlled cities increased 36.2% in 2020, and the homicide rate in Republican-led cities rose to 35.6% in 2020, according to data analytics reporter Jeff Asher. Experts have said that there are many more reasons why violence has shot...
#612 - Trump files lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and Google over ‘censorship’ of conservatives
July 11, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBFormer President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday he was launching a class action law suit against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on behalf of victims of 'cancel culture.' He demanded the end of 'shadow banning,' and 'blacklisting' as he stood in the blazing sun, using his Bedminster golf course clubhouse as a backdrop. 'In addition, we are asking the court to impose punitive damages on these social media giants,' he said. 'We're goi...
#611 - ‘Compassion Seattle’ homelessness initiative turns in signatures, hoping for November ballot
July 10, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBThe campaign to change Seattle’s city charter and force the city to deal with homelessness differently — called Compassion Seattle — has gathered more than 64,000 signatures, leaders say. That’s nearly double what they need to put the issue to voters on November’s ballot, but the signatures still have to be verified by the King County Department of Elections, which won’t happen for a few weeks. If voters pass it, Charter Amendment 29 would force the mayor to create 2,000 shelter or housing ...
#609 - After an astounding rise in home prices, this expert predicts the boom will continue
July 09, 2021 10:00 - 35 minutes - 24.9 MBBelow is an interview of Edward Pinto, the Director of AEI’s Housing Center, with Fortune’s Shawn Tulley on the state of rapidly rising home prices across the country: In almost five decades as one of America’s top housing experts, including a stint as chief credit officer of Fannie Mae, Ed Pinto has never seen prices climb at anything like the pace he’s seeing for May. “The high end is up 25% over May of last year, and the overall increase is 15%,” says Pinto, director of the American Ente...
#610 - Progressive WA State Politician Threatened to Blow Up School Bus
July 09, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.9 MBAn employee of Seattle, who has been called a "social justice warrior" and is now a progressive candidate for the King County Council threatened to blow up a school bus, then called middle school students cowards as they fled. According to court documents obtained by The Post Millennial, Ubax Gardheere boarded the Highline School District bus on Jan. 12, 2010 as it travelled on its morning route. Once aboard the bus, which was heading to Chinook Middle School, Gardheere demanded the driver ...
#608 - If the Seattle mayor’s race is any guide, defund the police has lost its steam
July 08, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 20.1 MBOne thing shined through pretty clearly when the Seattle mayoral candidates debated Tuesday. And no, it wasn’t who would be the best choice to try to manage our ungovernable city. It was that defunding the police is on the run. None of the six candidates who appeared at Tuesday’s forum openly endorsed cutting the police budget, let alone by 50%, as a majority of the Seattle City Council had endorsed during the civil rights protests last summer. A number of candidates campaigned openly tha...
#607 - Seattle area’s home prices take biggest-ever 12-month leap
July 07, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 20 MBWhat a difference just two years can make. Around this time in 2019, Seattle-area home prices had dipped and price growth nationwide was slowing. Cut to 2021: Seattle has clocked another month as one of the hottest American housing markets as home prices here and nationwide climb at a record-breaking pace. Single-family home prices in the Seattle metro area were up 20.2% in April from a year earlier, the region’s biggest-ever 12-month leap, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Hom...
#606 - Portland City Hall Won’t Sweep Homeless Camps More Than 10 Feet From Doorways
July 07, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBAs conversations heats up about Commissioner Dan Ryan’s plan to build six safe rest villages across the city, Portland’s protocols for sweeping homeless camps were formalized at a June 30 meeting of the City Council. The aim is to codify sweep protocols, Ryan’s office explained to WW, for the first time ever. One protocol the council cemented Wednesday: deprioritize sweeping encampments that are at least 10 feet away from entrances to residential or commercial buildings, so long as the bui...
#605 - Report: Hundreds of Seattle-area homes have sold for more than $300k over list price
July 06, 2021 20:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBA recent Redfin report found 580 homes in the Seattle area sold for at least $300,000 above asking price from the start of the year through June 16. There were only 16 such homes sold during the same period in 2020, according to the June 23 report. Seattle and Bellevue led the region in the number of homes sold at least $300,000 over the list price. Seattle sold 146 such homes this year, compared to eight during the same period last year. Bellevue sold 88 such homes, up from two during the...
#604 - Judge sentences man to prison for setting Seattle Police car on fire during May 2020 riots
July 06, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBA judge sentenced 25-year-old Tyre Wayne Means Jr., to five years in federal prison for helping to set a Seattle Police cruiser on fire and stealing an AR-15 rifle from another police car during the May 2020 riots in Seattle. At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Richard A. Jones told Tyre Wayne Means Jr., "Your conduct was reckless, destructive and extremely dangerous to those who were there for peaceful protest." Means was captured on video on May 30 lighting a paper towel and p...
#603 - Mayor Jenny Durkan and Downtown Leaders Announce New Efforts to Bring People & Business Back
July 05, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 16.6 MBMayor Jenny A. Durkan and downtown Seattle community leaders today announced the Road to Downtown Recovery plan, which includes new efforts and investments to bring workers, small businesses, and visitors back downtown. Using Seattle Rescue Plan investments and other federal funds, the City will invest more than $9 million in downtown recovery projects, including efforts to address empty storefronts, direct cash assistance to downtown small businesses, and workforce development programs fo...
#602 - Portland leaders walk tightrope between calls to defund police, escalating violence
July 05, 2021 10:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBAfter a year of protests sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the city of Portland, Oregon, is grappling with an increasingly disgruntled police force amid an uptick in violent crime and continued calls to defund law enforcement agencies. City leaders have scrambled to address both staffing shortages within the police department and reform demands by activists, walking a tightrope between those calling for a return to the status quo and others pushing for a demilitarized pol...
#601 - Seattle councilmembers to propose eliminating ‘single family’ zoning
July 04, 2021 10:00 - 22 minutes - 15.9 MBThis fall, two Seattle City councilmembers will propose doing away with the term: “single family zoning.” The city’s planning commission has repeatedly asked for the change since 2018. Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda says if Seattle wants to be an equitable and just city, then it must apply that same lens to its zoning code in an effort to end the use of the term she says has been used to further exclusionary practices and discriminatory policies. “Language matters. ‘Single family’ zoning ma...
#600 - 33 King County Superior Court judges urge immediate shutdown of Seattle’s City Hall Park
July 03, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 16.6 MBThirty-three King County Superior Court judges and four court commissioners on Friday signed a letter to Seattle Parks and Recreation Superintendent Jesús Aguirre, requesting that he shut down City Hall Park and relocate residents of a sprawling encampment immediately south of the downtown county courthouse. “We are writing out of deep concern for the safety of jurors, Courthouse employees, the general public and those who find themselves unhoused and sheltering in and around City Hall Park...
#599 - What Happens if You Don't Pay Your Property Taxes?
July 02, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBAs a homeowner, you're no doubt aware that the cost of owning property extends well beyond your monthly mortgage payment. You'll have to cover your homeowners insurance, maintenance, repairs, and, of course, property taxes. Your property taxes are calculated by taking your local tax rate and multiplying it by your home's assessed value. The average property tax bill in the U.S. was $3,498 in 2018, according to property database ATTOM Data Solutions, but in some parts of the country, you'll ...
#598 - Home Title Theft? You May Already Be a Victim ... of the Scary Ads | Seattle Real Estate Podcast
July 02, 2021 10:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBThe fearsome message is echoed in ads featuring radio hosts Kim Komando and Dana Loesch, as well as presidential lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who declares: “When your life is in chaos, your home is your safe haven. Imagine losing your home to some online scammer. In an instant your home is no longer yours. Is this even possible? Yes.” Home Title Lock offers a “free title scan” and “comprehensive title report” – when you sign up for services at $14.99 a month. But wa...
#597 - Seattle council’s new rental rules will become law without Mayor Jenny Durkan’s signature
July 01, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBThree Seattle City Council bills related to rental housing will become law without Mayor Jenny Durkan’s signature. Durkan declined to sign the bills last week, citing concerns about their legality. She also declined to veto the bills, predicting the council would override any vetoes. Passed by the council earlier this month, the bills will provide a defense against most school-year evictions of students and school employees, require landlords to offer lease renewals in many cases, and prev...
#596 - John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison after his extradition to the US was approved
July 01, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBJohn McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who'd had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. McAfee was awaiting extradition in a Spanish prison after being charged with tax evasion in the United States last year. McAfee was found dead in his cell in a prison near Barcelona on Wednesday around 1 p.m. ET and a medical examiner went to the scene, a spokeswoman for the Superior Court of Catalonia told CNN. She said the cause of death is under investigation. A s...
#595 - California to pay off all Past Due Rent Accrued During COVID, Giving Renters Clean Slate
June 30, 2021 10:00 - 32 minutes - 22.7 MBCalifornia is paying off residents' past due rent that was accrued during the COVID-19 pandemic, giving renters a clean slate, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced recently. The state's $5.2 billion in funds from Congressionally-approved aid packages is enough to pay off overdue rent, according to Newsom's senior counselor on housing and homelessness, Jason Elliott, the Associated Press reported. However, just $32 million out of $490 million in requests for rental assistance through May 31 have been...