Is it winter or spring for homeless? Perhaps both

With that data, Pierce County providers rethought every aspect of how they deal with homeless families.

This year, Tacoma Housing Authority collaborated with Tacoma Public Schools on a voucher program aimed at keeping McCarver Elementary School kids in neighborhood housing; that way, they can stay in the same school and improve their grades.

That idea won money from the Gates Foundation, always a good thing.

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