I welcome you to the web site for the Tacoma Housing Authority (THA). I hope you find it useful.

The primary mission of the Tacoma Housing Authority is to help low-income persons and families find and afford decent and safe places to live and prosper. We seek to do this in a way that strengthens our communities and makes them safe and attractive places to live, work, play and shop. We do this in four main ways.

First, we own apartments and homes that we offer for rent. We seek to build and maintain our properties so they are attractive and enjoyable places to live and assets for their neighborhoods.

Second, we help people pay their rent for apartments or homes that they lease from private landlords. Our Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section 8) is our main program for this type of help. We do this in partnership with thousands of landlords in our community.

Third, we have programs that help families purchase their first home.

Fourth, THA also provides or arranges for human services. We do this for people who need help to succeed as tenants. Elderly or disabled persons, for example, may need help to live on their own. Families coming from homelessness or fleeing domestic violence may need services to stabilize. Moreover, we also want people to succeed, not only as tenants, but as parents, students and wage earners. In this way, we want our housing to be a transforming experience for them. Services make this success more likely.

In these ways, and others, THA seeks to serve its communities. We are a staff of about 90 people who try to do our work efficiently and creatively. We coordinate our efforts with many partners, both public and private. Most of all, we believe this work is important to the people and community we serve. I invite you to learn more about us and our work.

Executive Director
Michael Mirra

This page modified: Friday, March 28, 2008