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Tacoma plan aims to boost affordability and diversity of housing


Tacoma plan aims to boost affordability and diversity of housing
The goal of 'Home in Tacoma' is to increase the variety of types of homes available, through rezoning and other measures.
Author: Lionel Donovan (KING)
Updated: 6:29 PM PDT April 7, 2021
TACOMA, Wash. — Tacoma is working on a new plan that could make buying a home more affordable. First-time homebuyers have struggled to buy homes in the city due to skyrocketing prices and lower supply.
But city leaders hope the Home in Tacoma project can begin to reverse that trend.
Currently, most of Tacoma’s residential areas are zoned for single-family units, but the project aims to rezone these areas to allow multiple family units, such as duplexes or townhouses, to be built in these areas as well.

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KUOW - Tacoma's Hilltop has hope for an equitable recovery


Brendan Nelson is president of the Hilltop Action Coalition
Credit:
KUOW Photo/Joshua McNichols
Tacoma’s Hilltop has hope for an equitable recovery
Apr 05, 2021
But how does recovery happen in a way that doesn’t push out existing residents and businesses?
Crystal T.J. works at The T-shirt Men, a silkscreening shop on MLK Way in Hilltop.
“Growing up, my mom would not really bring us over here," she said. "And now, it’s really transitioned itself into a much more welcoming and safer environment.”
The gang violence that she’s talking about declined dramatically over the years — residents worked hard to make that happen. That created the stable conditions where businesses, including many Black-owned businesses, could thrive. But it also set the table for new investors to come in.

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Armed Homeless Activists Storm Washington State Hotel, Say Police


Armed Homeless Activists Storm Washington State Hotel, Say Police
1 Feb 2021
Police in Olympia, Washington, repelled an armed takeover of a Red Lion Hotel by homeless activists Sunday night. Witnesses report they were armed with hatchets, batons, and knives.
At about 11 a.m. Sunday, a group of approximately 45 armed homeless activists forcibly took over the Red Lion Hotel in Olympia, according to a statement from the Olympia Police Department. The violent takeover appears to have been organized by a newly formed group officially identified as Oly Housing Now.
Employees of the Red Lion took shelter in the basement after activists allegedly assaulted one of the staff, police said. Employees called the police and reported being under threat.

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Homeless who occupied Fife motel leave the property, police say


Housing advocacy group occupying Fife motel leaves after police arrive
Activists brought a group of people experiencing homelessness to stay in the hotel without paying. Wednesday, police ordered them out.
Author: KING 5 Staff, Michael Crowe
Published: 2:22 PM PST December 30, 2020
Updated: 7:10 PM PST December 30, 2020
FIFE, Wash. — A group of people experiencing homelessness that was staying in a Fife motel without paying for the rooms has left the property, according to police.
The group was organized by advocacy organization Tacoma Housing Now, which booked 16 rooms at a Travelodge in Fife, and paid for one night on Christmas Eve.
However, the group refused to leave and pressured the city and county government to step up and pay the bill.

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'They Are Keeping Me Hostage': Homeless, Advocacy Group Occupy Fife Motel

'They Are Keeping Me Hostage': Homeless, Advocacy Group Occupy Fife Motel
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Pierce County homeless shelter summit foresees growing need


Pierce County homeless shelter summit foresees growing need
Pierce County coalition, mayor aims to end homelessness
Tacoma Pierce County Coalition to End Homelessness, in partnership with Tacoma Mayor Victoria Woodards, invites members of the community to participate in a virtual Safe Shelter Summit.
TACOMA, Wash. - December 21st is not only the first day of winter it’s also the longest night of the year. The day also marks the 30th anniversary of the Homeless Person’s Memorial Day. It’s a time to honor those who died while living unsheltered.
In November alone four people experiencing homelessness died in the South Sound, advocates revealed. Those working to help others living unsheltered said people in Pierce County may be more are at risk this year.

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Allison Needles: What is a Community Land Trust? And could one help with Tacoma's homelessness crisis?


Allison Needles: What is a Community Land Trust? And could one help with Tacoma's homelessness crisis?
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.
12/18/2020
Allison Needles, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Dec. 18—When Tacoma Housing Now took over vacant Gault Middle School in November to shelter unhoused people, the action came with a list of demands.
The most prominent of them insisted on making Gault, which has sat vacant for a decade, part of a Community Land Trust, also called a CLT.
That same demand fueled the housing advocacy group to block traffic and pitch a tent in the middle of the intersection on Pacific Avenue and 15th Street on Dec. 8.

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'We've seen it work': Tacoma mayor explains why she believes in universal basic income pilot


Tacoma Mayor Victoria Woodards. (City of Tacoma, YouTube)
Tacoma will soon have $600,000 in funding to use on a universal basic income pilot program. The city’s mayor, Victoria Woodards, explained to KIRO Radio’s Gee and Ursula why she thinks that program can work both short and long term.
Part of the funding for the program comes from a $500,000 donation from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who handed out a total of $15 million to cities across the country to fund universal basic income pilots. Another $100,000 is courtesy of the Mayors for Guaranteed Income (MGI) group.
Woodards has long pushed for a universal basic income program as one the MGI’s founding members. With funding now in hand, she points to past data from similar pilot programs as proof of how it can and will be effective in Tacoma.

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