Taxpayers can applaud the Tacoma Housing Authority’s tough policy on meth. It’s tough on meth makers and tough on meth users. When the THA is informed that a tenant in one of its 1,400 units has been arrested or implicated in connection with meth use, it triggers a test of that person’s unit by a private company overseen by the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department. (Units also are tested when tenants move out.) Should the unit test above the state safety level, it is “red-tagged” as required by state law and the tenant evicted so that the unit can be decontaminated.
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