Tenant Rights for Employer-Provided Farmworker Housing

Margaret C. Hannon, University of Michigan Law School

Originally published as Hannon, Margaret C. "Tenant Rights for Employer-Provided Farmworker Housing." Seattle Journal of Social Justice 20, no. 2 (2022). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sjsj/vol20/iss2/12

Abstract

Farmworkers in Washington State play a crucial role in food production and distribution, and the success of Washington’s economy rests heavily on its agricultural industry. The agricultural sector employs the greatest amount of people in Washington, “generates more than $5.3 billion in direct revenue, and has a total estimated economic impact on the state of more than $28 billion each year.” In Washington State, there are about 36,000 farms, which encompass 15.3 million acres, “or 37 percent of the state’s land mass.”