MUNICIPALITIES—STATUTORY AUTHORITY—HOUSING FUNDS—TAXATION—BONDS—Authority of Municipalities to Use Lodging Tax Revenues to Repay Revenue Bonds Issued to Finance Affordable Workforce Housing Within One-Half Mile of a Transit Station

RCW 67.28.160 authorizes a municipality to use lodging tax revenues to repay bonds issued to finance affordable workforce housing within one-half mile of a transit station.

September 18, 2025

Washington and 19 other states are suing the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to block new restrictions on federal funding that supports survivors of domestic violence and other violent crimes, jeopardizing potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars that were previously authorized for legal assistance services in Washington.

According to allegations in a lawsuit filed today by Washington and four other states, Zillow and Redfin violated antitrust laws when they struck a deal earlier this year that cements Zillow’s dominance in the market for online rental ads.
 
Property listing services, also called internet listing services, are one of the most important tools for Washingtonians looking for rental housing. These kinds of services allow people to search for available rentals, compare multiple properties, and filter by price, location, number of bedrooms, and accessibility.
 

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from unlawfully reallocating federal homeland security funding away from states based on their compliance with the administration’s political agenda, a day after a coalition of states including Washington filed a lawsuit.