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December 21, 2015

Former Bank To Host THA (Business Examiner)

Tacoma Housing Authority is acquiring KeyBank’s vacant Hilltop branch building, which will be redeveloped alongside several other projects in the neighborhood. The branch was closed…
December 20, 2015

KeyBank Hilltop branch sold to Tacoma Housing Authority

C.R. Roberts | Tacoma News Tribune

The Tacoma Housing Authority has added another property to its growing list of future housing facilities in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood. The agency and KeyBank have announced…
November 17, 2015

Smoking ban makes sense in public housing

From the Editorial Board | Tacoma News Tribune

There’s a cruel irony about smoking: Those who can least afford to smoke are the ones most likely to. Higher-income, well-educated people have all but…
November 16, 2015

Tacoma’s poor on wrong side of digital divide

Kate Martin | Tacoma News Tribune

The digital divide is greatest in Tacoma’s poorer neighborhoods. Miller’s community of Salishan is one of the most racially diverse neighborhoods in the county —…
November 13, 2015

THA Sets Sights on Mixed-use Development on MLK

Tacoma Weekly

Plans for an apartment complex on Tacoma’s Hilltop could get bigger with the addition of an adjoining property that could add retail spaces and other…
September 29, 2015

Salishan Families Can Get Help With College Savings

The News Tribune

Families in Tacoma’s Salishan housing development can take advantage of a new children’s savings program that can help save money for college expenses. The Tacoma…
August 25, 2015

Biggest affordable housing problem is lack of it

Tacoma News Tribune

That’s the case here in Tacoma. Households are eligible for public housing up to an income of 80 percent of the Area Median Income (AMI),…
August 1, 2015

Matt Driscoll: A look at Tacoma’s ‘unmet, brutal need’ for affordable housing

Matt Driscoll | The News Tribune

It happened fast. Jarringly fast. In maybe a minute, the Tacoma Housing Authority’s list of nearly 10,000 people hoping to receive rental assistance through the…
May 6, 2015

Making Homes Affordable and Sustainable in Tacoma, Washington

HUD User

The Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) recently completed the first phase of Bay Terrace, a development that replaces dilapidated public housing units with townhomes, cottages, midrise…
April 13, 2015

City of Destiny Poetry Slam – Hilltop Edition

What is Hilltop to you? What neighborhood stories and locations do you think are worth preserving as Hilltop moves into the future? What does it mean to…