OLYMPIA, Wash. – The Department of Commerce today announced a new program designed to provide relief to landlords whose property has been damaged by a tenant who used a federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) housing choice voucher, also known as a “Section 8” voucher, or a Veterans Affairs supportive housing voucher, also known as a VASH vouchers.
The housing choice voucher program is the federal government’s major program for assisting very low-income families, the elderly, and the disabled to afford decent, safe, and sanitary housing in the private market.
“Strengthening communities is our agency’s core purpose. Providing tools to ensure that everyone is housed is an important element of vibrant communities supporting successful businesses and self-sufficient people,” said Corina Grigoras, Commerce managing director for housing finance programs.
The Washington State Legislature this year provided Commerce with funds and authority to reimburse qualifying landlords from $500 to $5,000 to cover damages found to have been caused by Section 8 or VASH tenants. To qualify, landlords must have a court judgment against the tenant, and the damaged property must be in a jurisdiction that prohibits denial of tenancy based on source of income. Other restrictions apply.
Landlord Mitigation Program
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The Department of Commerce was directed by the Washington State Legislature to develop and implement a Landlord Mitigation Program (per ESHB-2380, Laws of 2016, Section 1010). The Landlord Mitigation Program is designed to provide financial assistance to landlords of private market units to mitigate qualifying damages caused by tenants who use HUD’s Housing Choice Voucher Program to pay for their rent.
WHO CAN APPLY?
To be eligible for the program, a landlord must have leased a private market unit to a tenant using the HUD Housing Choice Voucher Program. For more details on the various Housing Choice Voucher types, visit HUD’s Housing Choice Voucher Program website. The damages to the rented unit/property must exceed normal wear and tear.
To qualify for this assistance, the landlord must first obtain a judgment against the tenant from a court in the county in which the rental property is located. The judgment claim must have been initiated no earlier than April 18, 2016 (which is the date the bill became law). An application for reimbursement under the Landlord Mitigation Program must be submitted to Department of Commerce within one year of the date of the judgment.
The rented unit/property in question must also be located in a jurisdiction that prohibits landlords from denying tenancy based solely on the tenant's source of income. To the Department of Commerce’s knowledge, the following locations currently have such protections in place. We recommend you check with authorities in your community, as local landlord-tenant ordinances vary and may change.
Unincorporated King County
Bellevue
Redmond
Kirkland
Seattle
Olympia
Tumwater
Vancouver
Reimbursements are limited to those amounts covered in a final judgment against a tenant who was a Housing Choice Voucher-holder during their tenancy. The landlord must submit an application for mitigation assistance to the Department of Commerce within one year of obtaining a judgment against a qualified tenant. The timeframe to appeal a judgment must have expired without appeal or there must be no outstanding appeal on the judgment.
Read more on our Business and finance report
NEWS NOTEBOOK: ONLY ONE VIABLE CANDIDATE TO CHOSE FROM THE CURRENT CROP OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES....GARY JOHNSON
Let's first see how the other two candidates could win those crtical electorial votes tomorrow, which was reported by Vox:
Donald Trump is the underdog in Tuesday’s presidential election. But he still has a shot of winning, at least if you believe the FiveThirtyEight forecast. So what would his path to Electoral College victory look like?
Essentially, the likeliest way Trump can top 270 electoral votes appears to be by:
1) Holding the lean Trump swing states of Iowa, Ohio, and Arizona
2) Winning the toss-up states of Florida and North Carolina
3) Winning either one more big state like Pennsylvania or Michigan, or multiple smaller remaining contests.
see full report on Trump
Part two: Hillary Clinton:
How Hillary Clinton could win 270 electoral votes
Hillary Clinton is the favorite to win Tuesday’s presidential election. But the race has tightened of late in both national and swing state polls, and there’s been increasing chatter suggesting that Clinton’s “firewall” protecting an electoral college majority could be in danger.
The big picture, though, is that Clinton has two broad paths toward reaching 270 electoral votes:
1) Holding her six “firewall” states: Virginia, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire. Those states, combined with the solidly Democratic states, would give her the presidency.
2) If she loses one or more firewall states, she’d likely have to make up for those losses with similarly-sized wins in one or more of the following: Nevada, North Carolina, and Florida — the diverse toss-up state trio. (see full report)
Editorial note neither reports from Vox even mention the third wheel in this election Gary Johnson. The media pretty much wrote Johnson off when his running mate Bill Weld decided to be interviewed by a mouthpiece so called journalist for the Clinton campaign and vouched for Clinton, claiming he was pressured by the obnoxious Rachel Maddow who was badgering him for an answer to her question regarding Clinton See story: How Bill Weld betrayed libertarians---The Week
But, Weld probably knew this going in that interview.
Now, despite Welds blunder and doing something that is unheard of in campaigning for the highest office in the land, Johnson claims he can still win this election through the House of Representatives if he can win just 5% of those critical electoral college votes. According polls he Right now, Gary Johnson is averaging between 4 and 6 percent in national polls and Jill Stein is averaging closer to 1 to 2 percent in national polls. In 2012, Johnson was averaging at 5.1 percent before the election, when he only received 1 percent of the vote total. So the current numbers aren’t leaving people very hopeful as far as his chances at reaching 5 percent. And Jill Stein’s chances are even less than that. ( that's according to a report in clear politics)
Neither candidate on the two major parties aren't worth the salt they are made from. Clinton's presidency will be mard by endless scandle, and possible impeachment, Trump is just a snake oils salesman selling deep seeded resentment, which spread the division of this nation even further. So, what choice we have, the only choice logically Gary Johnson.
So yes I am in Gary, the question here is your running mate in?
The only viable presidential candidate, Gary Johnson.
Chose wisely folks.
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