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Chrystal Olson stood outside her Parkland, Washington, apartment on a winter day in 2012 as the few belongings she owned were removed. In the…

In 2011, the Tacoma Housing Authority started working with one school to provide multiyear housing vouchers to 50 families. As case workers helped parents…

Min cited McCarver Elementary School in Tacoma, which was recently profiled by the Urban Institute, as an example of the kind of collaboration that…

Locally, efforts at KCHA, the Seattle Housing Authority and the Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) have grown out of a recognition that unstable housing can…

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…

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…

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…

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 Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) faced a difficult choice. With fewer dollars from the federal government, the housing authority had to “thin the soup,”…