While Tacoma saw a small uptick in housing starts in the first months of Home in Tacoma upzones, the City’s goal to add 59,000 homes by 2050 may take additional action by the City, given current trendlines.
Tacoma is striving to pick up its pace of housing growth. The City hopes newly enact multiplex zoning while help it hit 325,000 residents in a few decades time, a population gain of nearly 50%.
Home in Tacoma will get a public hearing on Tuesday, which will close the comment period for the Final Environmental Impact Statement. Soon the Tacoma City Council will debate and approve a final zoning plan using the options outlined in the study.
Tacoma’s Green Blocks program is expanding into the Lincoln International District in October and looking for residents looking to help plant and care for trees.
The mood was jubilant during the ribbon cutting, but 12-minute peak frequencies fall short of promises. On Saturday, Tacoma leaders cut the ribbon on the Hilltop extension of Tacoma’s T-Line streetcar, inaugurating service on the long-anticipated and repeatedly delayed project. The 2.4-mile extension will more than double the
Tacoma For All is pushing a sweeping tenant bill of rights, and the City is planning a weaker package of changes. Affordable housing and tenants’ rights have been gaining traction as a hot topic for many American cities especially since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. While eviction bans were
Back in May 2017, the City Council of Tacoma declared a public health emergency related to homeless encampments. The following month, the Council passed a resolution allowing for the creation of temporary shelters throughout the city to get people off the streets and protect them and communities from health risks
Tacomans contend with their streets and roads This is the last of three vignettes depicting possible conversations between imaginary people in Tacoma as the city grapples with growth, densification, and other forms of change. A common topic across all of these stories will be Home in Tacoma, an ambitious plan
Facing a mobile home park closure in Puyallup, housing advocates have rallied to protect residents and address the larger housing crisis. On August 23rd, the Home in Tacoma For All Coalition hosted a rally in support of the residents of Meridian Mobile Estates. More than 60 community members gathered with
This is the second of three vignettes depicting possible conversations between imaginary people in Tacoma as the city grapples with growth, densification, and other forms of change. A common topic across all of these stories will be Home in Tacoma, an ambitious plan to overhaul Tacoma’s zoning laws to