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Tacoma Rents Rising Faster Than Seattle

Apartment housing: Colorful architecture next to the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington.
Flickr Photo/Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0)/https://flic.kr/p/CNyuWi
Colorful architecture next to the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington.

Bill Radke speaks with Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland about how the city is dealing with rising rents. According to Axiometrics Inc., a company that tracks national rental markets, the rate of rent growth in Tacoma was higher than the rate of rent growth in Seattle in January 2016. 

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