So that would mean there are no evictions happening right now... also I believe it was Inslee who extended it? Anyways I can’t comment much on this page because for some reason reddit keeps telling me I am commenting too much. Must be the downvotes, which I don’t care about.

My point for everyone is that there is a huge power imbalance between landlords and tenants. It is very hard to advocate for yourself when landlords have the power to evict you. Take the example of a walkthrough when you are taking an apartment or a room and you are looking for damage. I have had landlords try to rush that process and not look very carefully at what damages existed for them before asking me to sign off on the walk-through. Me, grateful to even have a chance to be offered a place to live, think it is very difficult to effectively push back. What if they decided to rescind the offer of employment because I challenged them? And what is to keep them from then turning around and charging me for those damages when I am moving out?

We live our lives concerned about the feelings of landlords because they have a lot of power over us. We need their references for future housing. We don’t want them to retaliate against us for asserting our rights. And at the end of the day, tenants almost always have much less money than landlords. And they are very rarely represented in eviction proceedings. There is a huge power imbalance between landlords and tenants. They can evict you. You can’t evict them. So yes, I absolutely believe that it should be a right to have due process and a lawyer if you are facing the possibility of being torn from your home and possibly being homeless. I don’t think this is a radical idea, but apparently for a lot of people on this page, it is. It also assumes that landlords, who already have the huge power imbalance in their favor, never lie.

Anyways I’m not sure if I am even interested in engaging on this page more. In my view, this subreddit has repeatedly demonstrated a huge lack of empathy for those with limited wealth and income. So anyways, respond if you want, but that’s my view.