Blog

12/01/2022
Legislative Priority
Our 2023 legislative priority is bold. It's a $14M direct allocation to preserve 80 homes for modest-income, first-time homebuyers. Not only will we purchase, rehabilitate and resell these homes; we'll also keep them permanently affordable.
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10/16/2022
Op-ed by Two CEOs
Tacoma Urban League CEO T'wina Nobles and Tacoma Habitat CEO Maureen Fife sound off about the racial disparity in homeownership in this op-ed, and announce a new partnership designed to move the needle of Black…
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08/30/2022
AMI Limits
As they do each summer, HUD released the new Area Median Income (AMI) limits and rather than incremental change as we are accustomed to seeing, the numbers this year took big leaps across the board.…
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05/27/2022
Housing Disparity in Tacoma
The City of Tacoma released a comprehensive report on race-based disparity in homeownership in November 2021, which found clear disparities associated with Black populations owning homes. Read some of the more impactful data points within.
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03/22/2022
Transformational $4.5M Gift
American author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott gifted $436 million to Habitat for Humanity International, including a one-time, unrestricted $4.5M to Tacoma Habitat.
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