Capping rent increases at 15% helps no one - my property taxes went up 27% YoY because the county decided to change the land and improvements valuations across the board. And guess what? Landlords pass off any tax increases to their tenants because, duh, they're not running a charity. What does that mean for the average non-apartment renter? The smaller, easier to work with mom & pop landlords sell, but inevitably to a corporate behemoth like Blackrock because the average non-tech worker doesn't have $600k laying around to pay for a house.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/08/us/trump-supreme-court-colorado-ballot

fucking LIVE

yo,
Great and Free States of America—be like Texas—
ignore the corrupt federal government and its Obscene Court. Dump the Insurrectionist from all ballots and continue the experiment of democracy in the USA USA! 🇺🇸

"Given Trump nominated three of the judges on the court, it seems unlikely they'll exclude him."

This is a poorly informed opinion. Trump appointees rule against Trump all the time. See, e.g., numerous "stolen election" decisions, including those of the United States Supreme Court allowing lower court rulings unfavorable to Trump to stand.

I don't know how many times I have to make this same comment: DO NOT USE PHOTOS OF HIS FUCKING CLOWN FACE ON SLOG. He is the worst person in America and we'll all seen it enough.

housing as commodity
oughtta be an oddity
capitalism's got
No bottom.

SCOTUS is just champing at the bit to create Law out of Whole Cloth and ignore the originalist interpretations of insurrection and what we do to them.

The 2017 eclipse's path of totality didn't pass through Montana, so you didn't actually see it. And the 2024 eclipse won't touch the East Coast of the United States, it's largely Midwestern.

SROs disappeared from cities across the United States in previous waves of gentrification. Why are you so dismissive of something that gives people an affordable place to live? Would I want to live in an Apodment? No. Am I glad they exist for people who can't afford to pay more than 50% of the median rental price in the city? Heck yes.

@5
Agreed!
I hope to live long enough to never have to see the face of that psycho Orange Jesus again!

@2,

NPR actually streamed the audio from the hearing live too.

Random question... I didn't think they were able to do this, have they live-streamed other hearings in the past, or is there something unique about this one? I thought all SC audio/video feeds were prohibited?

@9: SROs declined and vanished in Seattle in the wake of the Ozark Hotel fire in 1970. 20 people died and 10 were injured. The city then required fire doors and sprinklers. The SROs were old, poorly maintained and owners closed them rather than meet new fire codes. I'm old enough to have been inside a number of the old SROs. Very few people living in Seattle today, at any income level, would tolerate the living conditions in those old buildings.

Just listened to the arguments today at SCOTUS – Trump v. Anderson, et al. Colorado, you best go ahead and put that monster back on the ballot.

Does Annette Cleveland own rental property is the first thing I want to know. Also, a 15% annual increase sounds excessive. After Prop 13 passed back in the 70s, which campaigned on promises of self-stabilizations for rent because landlords would pass their property tax savings (which were huge) on to renters, rents started skyrocketing. West Hollywood, which was then unincorporated, had to pass a 7% annual increase limit. Know what happened? Every year, more dependable than clockwork, rents went up 7%. You could set your watch to it. What makes more sense to me, and what is currently in place in the City of Los Angeles, is a range of allowable increases (3-8% annually). The Stabilization Board issues an annual percentage (this year it’s 4%), but owners can appeal and ask for more showing cause. Every renter in LA pays a rent stabilization fee to pay for administration. Mine’s $4.44 a month. Seems to work well, and there are no surprise 50% increases posted on your door when you come home from a hard day at the office.

Don’t know how big that check was, Ms. Cleveland, but may I suggest you use some of that money for a better salon and dentist. Meow.

I know it would work for some people, but the thought of a 150 sq. ft. apartment makes me break out in a cold, claustrophobic sweat.

Glad to hear that Mr. Blagovich is carrying on. Still heartbreaking. Fuck, you just don’t ever recover from something like that. Best wishes.

Now, Miss Nikki, you know it’s over. Stop spending campaign money on the campaign, girl! Time to do what every southern Republican lady (y’all) does when she’s lost an election but still has plenty of campaign dough. Use that money for a couple of $125 Chanel lipsticks, a stop at Dior for some resort wear, and then head on down to the Seychelles for a few weeks. Aren’t winter tans the best? You’re gonna need that rest for when you come back to kiss some T-ass. Ask Lindsey Graham. “Mmmm,” he says, “tastes like Gold Bond powder and expensive bronzer,” he adds, “and faintly like Halston Z-14.”

@ 12 - Mike, the Supreme Court streams all their hearings at their website. Audio only though. Cameras are still verboten. Hope you are well.

@15,

Thanks! Yeah I did a google search and apparently it was an accommodation made as a result of the pandemic and now they're maybe just sticking with it. Pretty cool, though the brief portion I listened to this morning may as well have been in Klingon, given all the legalese jargon and obscure statutes they were referencing as precedent.

@13, the Ozark Hotel fire is still Seattle's biggest unsolved murder, I believe.

I suspected the SC's would rule to keep 45 on the ballot.

My bigger concern is whether the SC will or will not issue a stay on the immunity decision after the DC District Court and the DC Appeals Court (in a very well-written and objectively tight legal decision) said that Presidents aren't entitled to immunity. If the SC issues a stay, I think that potentially we are looking at a possible abolishment of our present system of government. I'm pretty sure that Alito and Thomas are all in on fascism. Roberts strikes me as a pragmatist who may reject a stay. The other three are ? that could go either way.

These sites may help:

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/

https://dictionary.law.com/

"Still, for our East Coast readers, have a nice time."

The eclipse is mainly going through Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania but you're calling out "East Coast readers" because it's going through upper New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine?

Ok then.

The PCC employee contract is garbage. Their union, local 3000 asshats, subdued and manipulated the information and communications between PCC workers themselves, and PCC management took full advantage.

This PCC no longer cares about the environment as all of its “made daily in house products” are no longer made in house, or daily, and in fact, come up in plastic bags from California.

The entire deli is being replaced like this and PCC corporate is hoping that on no one notices that the Tiger Mountain Chili that was made in house for decades now comes from California in a bag. A penny saver that massively expands PCCs carbon footprint and creates a mountain of plastic waste.

Shame on you PCC. What happened to your mission statement? Commitment to something about locally made products and protecting the environment? What a bunch of crap.

Goodbye PCC. I don’t see you long for this city.

With all due respect, co-living housing is not just "cute". Co-living housing is absolutely vital to get more affordable housing in Seattle. According to Sightline Institute, co-living housing can be rented without subsidies down to 50% of AMI (area median income), taking pressure off the limited spots for subsidized housing.

@23, Absolutely not four years. You have to give Stephen Miller and Michael Flynn time to build "the camps" for those commie dems and street-agitating lefties.

@5 Max Solomon and @10 pat L +2 for the WIN!!!

@28: ANYONE still rabid for the Orange Turd should have his or her voting rights permanently suspended.
These clueless, willfully misinformed idiots have absolutely no ability to cast a ballot wisely. They're voting against their own best interests. They're sheeple. The Orange Turd is all about itself, neofascism, violence, and chaos. Don't be one of them.
Stop chugging the FOX TeeVee Kool-Aid and gobbling up raindrop's Wal*Mart supply of Twinkies, Cap'n Crunch.

@31: You and your equally clueless MAGA recruits are so thoroughly brainwashed, raindrop dear.
How much do you pay them to pass on willful misinformation, in addition to your free FOX TeeVee, Kool-Aid, and Twinkies? Do they get their own motorized wheelchairs, too, or is that what the GOP calls a "pre-existing condition"?

@33: Stop chasing your tail before you hurt yourself, raindrop dear.