Read about the latest changes to eviction laws. Yes, if your landlord has gotten notice that the place you are renting to live in will be condemned.
This means it is unlawful to live in occupy. If a fire or code enforcement official or other government agency orders you to move out because of code violations, you may be able to get help moving. RCW The landlord should give you a Day Notice to Vacate.
The landlord must pay the relocation money, security deposit, and any damages within 7 days after the agency sends the landlord the condemnation, eviction, or displacement notice. The landlord must pay by certified check. The payment must go either to you or to the agency that ordered the condemnation, eviction, or displacement. The city or county agency may advance you the cost of the relocation assistance. If they will not, send the landlord a letter yourself asking for what the landlord owes you.
See sample letter below. Send your letter by certified mail, return receipt requested and regular mail. Keep a copy of it for yourself. If the landlord does not pay or respond, you must file in small claims court. Go to the county courthouse. Ask for the small claims department. If you are able to get an order that the repairs get made and the apartment not be condemned, you will probably need to leave your apartment for a period of time in order for the repairs to be made. You may ask the judge to order your landlord or the town or city that is condemning the property to pay for a hotel room for you and your family.
You may also ask the judge to make an order for a daily allowance to help you pay for food while you are displaced from your apartment. Moving Expenses and Other Help If the Board of Health condemns your building under the state Sanitary Code and orders you to vacate it, the city or town in which the building is located is required to provide occupants with relocation assistance and a relocation payment for their moving expenses.
For more see Emergency Assistance Advocacy Guide You can also apply for emergency state public and maybe federal public housing from your local housing authority or another housing authority.
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It is out of date. It is too much to read. It is confusing. I do not like the answer. How could we make it more helpful? Leave this field blank. Find Legal Aid You may be able to get free legal help from your local legal aid program. Getting Repairs Made Downloads. View the results at Google , or enable JavaScript to view them here. In egregious cases, authorities have been forced to condemn property when landlords have failed to remedy building code or health code violations after repeated notice, and, as a result, families with limited financial resources have been displaced and left with nowhere to go.
The purpose of this act is to establish a process by which displaced tenants would receive funds for relocation from landlords who fail to provide safe and sanitary housing after due notice of building code or health code violations. It is also the purpose of this act to provide enforcement mechanisms to cities, towns, counties, or municipal corporations including the ability to advance relocation funds to tenants who are displaced as a result of a landlord's failure to remedy building code or health code violations and later to collect the full amounts of these relocation funds, along with interest and penalties, from landlords.
Construction — c "The powers and authority conferred by this act are in addition and supplemental to powers or authority conferred by any other law or authority, and nothing contained herein shall be construed to preempt any local ordinance requiring relocation assistance to tenants displaced by a landlord's failure to remedy building code or health code violations.
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