WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:01:59.2910000" NOTE recognizability:0.915 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.89274484 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.808 Some days you feel despair. This NOTE Confidence: 0.89274484 00:00:02.810 --> 00:00:04.862 is Mary and Dillon, executive director NOTE Confidence: 0.89274484 00:00:04.862 --> 00:00:07.760 for the YWCA in Snohomish County. Some NOTE Confidence: 0.89274484 00:00:07.760 --> 00:00:10.430 days you feel a little hopeless. Despair NOTE Confidence: 0.89274484 00:00:10.430 --> 00:00:11.878 and hopelessness come in, NOTE Confidence: 0.89274484 00:00:11.878 --> 00:00:14.050 she and her team have been NOTE Confidence: 0.89274484 00:00:14.121 --> 00:00:16.136 busy helping both renters and NOTE Confidence: 0.89274484 00:00:16.140 --> 00:00:17.900 landlords staff working tirelessly to NOTE Confidence: 0.89274484 00:00:17.900 --> 00:00:21.092 get money out to the community, both at NOTE Confidence: 0.89274484 00:00:21.092 --> 00:00:23.378 our agencies and our partner agencies. NOTE Confidence: 0.89274484 00:00:23.380 --> 00:00:25.285 The YWCA has provided rental NOTE Confidence: 0.89274484 00:00:25.285 --> 00:00:26.428 assistance for decades, NOTE Confidence: 0.89274484 00:00:26.430 --> 00:00:28.460 but Dylan says the pandemic NOTE Confidence: 0.89274484 00:00:28.460 --> 00:00:30.084 exacerbated a problem that NOTE Confidence: 0.89274484 00:00:30.084 --> 00:00:31.739 existed long before COVID. NOTE Confidence: 0.89274484 00:00:31.740 --> 00:00:33.936 She says wages are not keeping NOTE Confidence: 0.89274484 00:00:33.936 --> 00:00:35.620 up with housing costs in NOTE Confidence: 0.9367489 00:00:35.620 --> 00:00:37.390 Washington. In the Seattle Everett, NOTE Confidence: 0.9367489 00:00:37.390 --> 00:00:39.644 Bellevue area, you need to make at NOTE Confidence: 0.9367489 00:00:39.644 --> 00:00:42.565 least $30 an hour in order to afford NOTE Confidence: 0.9367489 00:00:42.565 --> 00:00:44.450 a modest two bedroom apartment. NOTE Confidence: 0.9367489 00:00:44.450 --> 00:00:46.125 We have conversation with people NOTE Confidence: 0.9367489 00:00:46.125 --> 00:00:48.330 every single day they are working. NOTE Confidence: 0.9367489 00:00:48.330 --> 00:00:50.794 One or two jobs they are struggling. NOTE Confidence: 0.9367489 00:00:50.800 --> 00:00:52.972 They are on payment plans and NOTE Confidence: 0.9367489 00:00:52.972 --> 00:00:55.147 they are really trying to get NOTE Confidence: 0.9367489 00:00:55.147 --> 00:00:57.160 ahead in their rents. Dylan knows NOTE Confidence: 0.9367489 00:00:57.160 --> 00:00:59.272 tenants aren't the only ones feeling NOTE Confidence: 0.9367489 00:00:59.272 --> 00:01:01.389 the financial crunch. There are plenty NOTE Confidence: 0.9367489 00:01:01.390 --> 00:01:03.470 of resources in the community. NOTE Confidence: 0.9367489 00:01:03.470 --> 00:01:05.425 That landlords can access because NOTE Confidence: 0.9367489 00:01:05.425 --> 00:01:07.714 we also talked to landlords and NOTE Confidence: 0.9367489 00:01:07.714 --> 00:01:09.866 we know that they do not want to NOTE Confidence: 0.9367489 00:01:09.866 --> 00:01:12.018 evict people, but they need to NOTE Confidence: 0.9388853 00:01:12.020 --> 00:01:14.066 make ends meet to Washington's eviction. NOTE Confidence: 0.9388853 00:01:14.070 --> 00:01:16.116 Moratorium began in March of 2020, NOTE Confidence: 0.9388853 00:01:16.120 --> 00:01:17.488 protecting renters from losing NOTE Confidence: 0.9388853 00:01:17.488 --> 00:01:19.198 their homes during the pandemic. NOTE Confidence: 0.9388853 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:20.592 As of midnight Monday, NOTE Confidence: 0.9388853 00:01:20.592 --> 00:01:22.680 that protection is gone with nearly NOTE Confidence: 0.9388853 00:01:22.740 --> 00:01:25.015 one in 17 renters now facing eviction, NOTE Confidence: 0.9388853 00:01:25.020 --> 00:01:26.770 Dillon hopes those needing help NOTE Confidence: 0.9388853 00:01:26.770 --> 00:01:29.120 will continue to ask for it. There NOTE Confidence: 0.9388853 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:31.605 are just so many agencies out in NOTE Confidence: 0.9388853 00:01:31.605 --> 00:01:33.580 the community that are waiting. NOTE Confidence: 0.9388853 00:01:33.580 --> 00:01:35.866 To support you and your NOTE Confidence: 0.9388853 00:01:35.866 --> 00:01:38.148 family and those around you. NOTE Confidence: 0.86976224 00:01:40.530 --> 00:01:43.827 Burian Kenmore in Seattle have all pushed NOTE Confidence: 0.86976224 00:01:43.827 --> 00:01:46.010 their eviction moratoriums into 2022, NOTE Confidence: 0.86976224 00:01:46.010 --> 00:01:48.295 and while landlords canal legally NOTE Confidence: 0.86976224 00:01:48.295 --> 00:01:50.123 begin the eviction process, NOTE Confidence: 0.86976224 00:01:50.130 --> 00:01:53.161 they are still being asked to give NOTE Confidence: 0.86976224 00:01:53.161 --> 00:01:55.972 landlords access to information about how NOTE Confidence: 0.86976224 00:01:55.972 --> 00:01:59.290 to find some help for their finances.