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Wash. Rev. Code § 35.82.080 (2026)

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It is hereby declared to be the policy of this state that each housing authority shall manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient manner so as to enable it to fix the rentals for low-income dwelling accommodations at the lowest possible rates consistent with its providing decent, safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations, and that no housing authority shall construct or operate any such project for profit, or as a source of revenue to the city or the county. To this end, an authority shall fix the rentals for rental units for persons of low income in projects owned or leased by the authority at no higher rates than it shall find to be necessary in order to produce revenues which (together with all other available moneys, revenues, income and receipts of the authority from whatever sources derived) will be sufficient (1) to pay, as the same become due, the principal and interest on the bonds or other obligations of the authority issued or incurred to finance the projects; (2) to meet the cost of, and to provide for, maintaining and operating the projects (including the cost of any insurance) and the administrative expenses of the authority; and (3) to create (during not less than the six years immediately succeeding its issuance of any such bonds) a reserve sufficient to meet the largest principal and interest payments which will be due on such bonds in any one year thereafter and to maintain such reserve. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to limit an authority's power to rent commercial space located in buildings containing housing projects or non low-income units owned, acquired, financed, or constructed under RCW 35.82.070(5), (19), or (20) at profitable rates and to use any profit realized from such rentals in carrying into effect the powers and purposes provided to housing authorities under this chapter.
[ 2025 c 58 s 2014; 1989 c 363 s 3; 1983 c 225 s 3; 1977 ex.s. c 274 s 3; 1965 c 7 s 35.82.080. Prior: 1939 c 23 s 9; RRS s 6889-9. Formerly RCW 74.24.080.]

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Explanatory note—2025 c 58: See note following RCW 1.16.050.
Severability—1983 c 225: See note following RCW 35.82.020.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7 cases, 1973–2009 · leading case: In Re Pierce Cnty. Hous. Auth., 414 B.R. 702 (Bankr. W.D. Wash. 2009).
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In Re Pierce Cnty. Hous. Auth., 414 B.R. 702 (Bankr. W.D. Wash. 2009). · cites it 2× “See RCW 35.82.080. The Eagles Watch Creditors also argue that the Debtor cannot prove that it is insolvent because it is has failed to tender their claims to Pierce County or potential insurers.”
Gray v. Pierce Cnty. Hous. Auth., 97 P.3d 26 (Wash. Ct. App. 2004). “Under RCW 35.82.080, PCHA must keep rents "at the lowest possible rates," and it receives state assistance in the form of federal government subsidies and reduced rents in order to do so.”
Gray v. Pierce Cnty. Hous. Auth., 123 Wash. App. 744 (Wash. Ct. App. 2004). “Under RCW 35.82.080, PCHA must keep rents “at the lowest possible rates,” and it receives state assistance in the form of federal government subsidies and reduced rents in order to do so.”
Hous. Auth. v. Ne. Lake Washington Sewer & Water Dist., 784 P.2d 1284 (Wash. Ct. App. 1990). “The Housing Authority argues *595 that RCW 35.82.080 requires it to operate at cost, and that RCW 35.”
Blakely v. Hous. Auth., 505 P.2d 151 (Wash. Ct. App. 1973). “” RCW 35.82.080 declares it to be a state policy “that each housing authority shall manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient manner so as to enable it to fix the rentals for dwelling accommodations at the lowest possible rates consistent with its providing decent,…”
Pierce Cnty. Hous. Auth. v. Murrey's Disposal Co., 936 P.2d 1 (Wash. Ct. App. 1996). · cites it 3× “Further, the efforts made by the PCHA in its feasibility study and in its attempt to service its own projects are not only consistent with the requirement in RCW 35.82.080 to provide "sanitary dwelling accommodations,” but essential, especially if the PCHA is to provide the…”
Hous. Auth. v. City of Pasco, 86 P.3d 1217 (Wash. Ct. App. 2004). “320 does provide a procedure for deactivating a housing authority: A housing authority created under this chapter and activated by a resolution by the governing body of a city, town, or *844 county may be deactivated by a resolution by the city, town, or county.”
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