Housing authority traded $2,000 for Lynnwood tenants' silence
LYNNWOOD — A property management company that ran Whispering Pines, a low-income apartment complex, gave tenants up to $2,000 in exchange for a promise not to take legal action against the company or the Housing Authority of Snohomish County, according to records obtained by The Daily Herald.
Cash-strapped tenants were also banned from making any “disparaging remarks” about their former landlords, and agreed to delete any negative online comments about Allied Residential and HASCO within four days. And to get the cash, they could not tell anybody the deal existed.
Private landlords often use non-disclosure agreements.
What’s extraordinary in this case is that more than 50 low-income tenants also agreed not to speak out against a public agency, HASCO, which was supposed to provide up to $100,000 in moving expenses via federal stimulus money.
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