How Seattle's Landlord Inspection Program Is Failing Renters

Tenants live among roaches, rodents, mold—despite their landlord passing a city inspection intended to prevent those kinds of conditions.by Heidi GrooverSeattle tenants are fighting for more city protections, but some of those already in place aren't working. Courtesy of Clay Showalter
As Maria Angeles makes tortillas on her kitchen counter, cockroaches scurry along the wall under the edge of her cabinets. A few feet away, her husband Humberto Sanchez sits at the kitchen table. Above his h