Bad credit. An eviction. Previous trouble with the law.
Those are some of the reasons that landlords typically refuse to rent an apartment and the main ones that keep homeless people from getting housing in the private market, even if they have resources.
A new King County program promises to change that by finding landlords who are willing to overlook past mistakes. It's called the Landlord Liaison Project, and so far it's gotten apartments for three people who were homeless. ...