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Short-term rentals get the green light in Gig Harbor

Soundside host Libby Denkmann chats with Gig Harbor Now reporter Charlee Glock-Jackson, along with Councilmember Jeni Woock about a recent vote to allow short-term rentals in Gig Harbor.
- Jason Burrows
Dogs are being surrendered more in Seattle area because of soaring pet food costs, inflation

Seattle-area shelters have been deluged by families surrendering their beloved pets - not because they don't want them anymore - but because they simply cannot afford the rise in pet food, or because they have had to move in with other relatives to afford the rent, and their pup can't make it.
- Casey Martin
Next steps for Seattle's (passing) social housing initiative

Seattle’s Social Housing initiative is leading by 14 percent and could be certified next week. So what are the next steps?
- Joshua McNichols
What would make you live in downtown Seattle? Residents answer, city listens

One of the big lessons to come out of the pandemic – is that downtowns need people. Not just office workers – but people who live there. But how do you get people to move downtown? That’s a question Seattle officials are grappling with right now. In part 3 of our series “Downtown Reimagined,” KUOW’s Joshua McNichols went looking for downtown residents to find out what’s working, and what’s not.
- Joshua McNichols
With office employees gone, downtown Seattle residents became the neighborhood's economic lifeblood

Downtown Seattle was decimated by the pandemic. Office buildings are 22% vacant right now — that’s like one in five towers being dark. But the downtown core is showing surprising signs of life.
- Joshua McNichols
Week in Review: Amazon, legislature, and housing

Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Seattle Channel’s Brian Callanan, Seattle Times Claudia Rowe, and Puget Sound Business Journal’s Alex Halverson.
- Kevin Kniestedt
Should rent be stabilized? Washington lawmakers hear the pros and cons

Supporters say the bills would guard against massive rent increases. Critics say the measures would suppress the production of new rentals at a time when the state is already hurting for housing.
- Joshua McNichols
What's behind skyrocketing rents in Eastern Washington?

To find the fastest rent increases in Washington, you have to look outside of the major metro areas. Traditionally affordable places across the state are quickly pricing out minimum wage workers and retirees.
- Jason Burrows
Can Seattle turn underused office towers into apartment buildings?

They’re already doing it in Tacoma. We explore that idea, along with other strategies to get people to move downtown so they can help revive it.
- Sarah Leibovitz
Seattle special election: voters approving social housing initiative

Seattle voters are deciding one issue this February Special Election: an affordable housing initiative.
- Paige Browning

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