In response to a lawsuit, the City of Kenmore has repealed certain provisions of the tenant protections passed in 2022 during a Council meeting on September 11, 2024. The City of Kenmore repealed their “just cause” laws which go beyond the state’s listed “just causes” and prohibited ending tenancy at lease termination without just cause. Two previous court cases, Rental Housing Ass’n of Wash. V. City of Burien (2022) and Valley Cities Counseling and Consultation v. Eddines (2024), ruled that city laws were pre-empted by state laws when the city tried to prohibit what state law expressly permits. Per the agreement, they have also repealed the “abusive and deceptive” practices section which contained ambiguous and legally questionable definitions of such practices.
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