Our landlord violated our lease, and all we could do was grin and bear it

The property management company that owns our apartment denied us access to our apartment in Bellevue for several days for renovations we didn't ask for. It clearly states in our lease that if they do this, they are required to provide us housing. They didn't. We are fortunate that we had another resource at our disposal otherwise we would have been homeless while the renovation took place. We couldn't afford legal assistance, so I used a work benefit for a free 30-minute consultation with a lawyer. They said it was an open and shut case, the lease was clear and the landlord was negligent. Then they said our option was to basically move out without penalty. That would leave us even more homeless, since there's almost nowhere in Bellevue we can afford.

This happened in 2022.