“When Spokane leads, the state follows.”
“These people have prepared themselves — these are their homes — that’s how everybody feels. I’m not sure any of us are prepared for what’s to come.”
If you’re about to be evicted in Washington state, what rights do you have?
This week on the pod, Gene Brake, Spokane-based Realtor, civil rights activist, and neighborhood leader joins us to talk about:
Normal people can’t afford to live in North Idaho anymore.
Real estate reporting isn't my biggest interest, and it's definitely not RANGE's beat, but the Inland Northwest is in the midst of an extreme housing crunch that's beginning to affect people's ability to even survive — and that is definitely our beat.
This week we welcome Rae-Lynn Barden, Communications Director of Volunteers of America Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho.
Continuing our housing series with a dash of sprawl containment, farmland preservation, racial equity and environmental impact (not to mention crawdad fishing in Elk!), this week we talk with Kitty Klitzke, Spokane Program Director for Futurewise
The conclusion of our interview with the inimitable Terri Anderson, Spokane Director and Policy Lead for the Tenants Union of Washington this week on the podcast.
Even after we manage to contain the public health crisis brought on by Covid-19, the danger isn’t over in Spokane.
This week, in the second part of our interview with Ben Stuckart — an hour of pure cask-strength righteous indignation about our housing crisis, cut with an effervescent spritzer of audio slapstick and other goofery.
