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Blog Post / January 7, 2015

Home Schooled

Aaron Burkhalter | Real Change
Locally, efforts at KCHA, the Seattle Housing Authority and the Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) have grown out of a recognition that unstable housing can lead…
Blog Post / December 30, 2014

School District Program Helps Parents Of Homeless Children With Rent And Support Services

Rebecca Klein | Huffpost
But, over the last few years, the family has been stabilized by an unusual partnership between their children’s school and the Tacoma, Wash., housing authority.
Blog Post / December 9, 2014

K-12, Housing Partner to Aid Homeless Students

Evie Blad | EducationWeek
But, over the last few years, the family has been stabilized by an unusual partnership between their children’s school and the Tacoma, Wash., housing authority.
Blog Post / December 4, 2014

More Than 100 Colleges Made Pledges at the First White House Summit. Here’s How 6 Fared.

Mary Bowerman, Max Lewontin, and Jared Misner | The Chronicle of Higher Education
Tacoma Community College committed to “a project to end homelessness,” pledging to team up with the Tacoma Housing Authority to create a housing-voucher program for…
Blog Post / December 1, 2014

Thanksgiving Message 2014

Michael Mirra, Executive Director
Blog Post / October 16, 2014

The link between housing policy and student achievement

Valerie Strauss | The Washington Post
In 2006, the student turnover rate at McCarver Elementary School in Tacoma was 179 percent. (How is 179 percent possible? See below.) By 2009, the…
Blog Post / July 30, 2014

Does ‘Moving to Work’ really work?

Aaron Burkhalter | Real Change
“The Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) faced a difficult choice. With fewer dollars from the federal government, the housing authority had to “thin the soup,” said…
Blog Post / March 11, 2014

Elementary School Pilot Program Helps Family Escape Homelessness

Taylor Winkel | NW News Network
This is where the McCarver Special Housing Program enters the story. The two-and-a-half-year-old program is a partnership between McCarver Elementary School in Tacoma and the…
Blog Post / September 30, 2013

Federal Government Shutdown

Note from the Executive Director to THA’s Customers, Partner Landlords, Vendors, and Fellow Citizens: Read the Note…
Alert, Blog Post / June 14, 2013

THA is Hiring a Director of Real Estate Development!

The Tacoma Housing Authority is in the process of hiring a new Director of Real Estate Development! Get to Know…
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