Beyond eviction filings, rents in Kent have jumped 15% since February 2021, according to a Kent Reporter story from March 2. Fincher said one of her neighbors endured a rent hike of at least 45%, with little time to adapt to it.
“That is catastrophic for a lot of people,” she said. “If they’re priced out of their current housing, there’s nowhere nearby that they can afford…. So many of my neighbors are people who were pushed out of other places, initially.”
The county council member from Fincher’s district considers the threat of displacement that communities face an ironic byproduct of investment into them.
“It is really a conundrum because
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