February 2022 Bar Bulletin
By Devon Stark
Imagine for a moment that you are a single parent of one child, earning $60,000 per year in Seattle. The heat has been broken in your apartment for a week, and your landlord refuses to do anything about it. Although your income is well over Seattle’s minimum wage of $17.27 an hour (for employers over 500), and nearly 3.5 times the 2021 Federal Poverty Level, you may not be able to afford an attorney.
In fact, according to the 2021 Income Limits set by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), a family of two earning less...