christ look at this ugly ass photo of all the "new housing being built" from an article on how evictions in seattle skyrocketed after the pandemic moratoriums were shitcanned, but then just kept going up
Rising rents don’t account for the change, either. Rents have barely ticked up across Washington over the past few years. Rather, rents are simply too high for tenants to afford. In the Seattle area, where tenants were already paying some of the highest rents in the nation, average rents jumped up around 12% between the start of 2020 and the end of 2022, according to the Washington Center for Real Estate Research’s apartment reports. The average rent of a two-bedroom apartment in King County is now around $2,450, according to the center’s reports. That’s affordable for a household bringing in more than $88,000 a year.
