Indigo Real Estate Services, Inc. v. Wadsworth

¶1 Pursuant to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) “section *4148” program, a landlord may not terminate the tenancy of a section 8 tenant during the term of the lease without good cause for doing so. The protections afforded such tenants are fully applicable when a landlord seeks to terminate the tenancy by way of our state’s unlawful detainer statute, chapter 59.12 RCW — having accepted the substantial financial benefits of the federal section 8 program, the landlord is bound to comply with this program’s rules and regulations in any such action. Accordingly, a…