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  • How new county housing dollars could reshape future development sites in Lakewood

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📰 News we're reading

• Pierce County Boosts Affordable Housing Creation, Leveraging New Maureen Howard Fund (theurbanist.org) — Pierce County’s affordable housing push now includes loans to acquire land in Lakewood for future senior, workforce, and disability-focused housing, alongside major new projects in South Hill, Fife, Buckley, and DuPont. Funded by the Maureen Howard sales tax, the county is stretching its dollars with outside financing, prioritizing extremely low-income residents, and eyeing more tools like tax exemptions and public land transfers to close a large housing gap.
   

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  • Seeking money for street projects, Tacoma to hit developers with new impact fee (thenewstribune.com)
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