Dear Friends:

          I am very pleased to report that 3 more organizations have joined as co-signatories to our Op-Ed piece:  Amara, Centro Latino, and the Rainbow Center.  We now have 30!

          This means the list of co-signatories presently shows as follows:

                   Amara

Asian Pacific Cultural Center

Asian Pacific Islander Coalition - Pierce County

Associated Ministries

Bates Technical College

Catholic Community Services

                   Centro Latino

Foundation for Tacoma Students

Greater Tacoma Community Foundation

Korean Women’s Association (KWA)

League of Women Voters of Tacoma-Pierce County

Living Access Support Alliance (LASA)

Metropolitan Development Council (MDC)

NAACP- Tacoma Branch

Pierce College

Pierce County Housing Authority

Pierce County Human Services Coalition Executive Committee

                   Rainbow Center

SafeStreets

Shared Housing Services

Tacoma Community College

Tacoma Housing Authority

Tacoma Ministerial Alliance

Tacoma-Pierce County Affordable Housing Consortium

Tacoma-Pierce County Habitat for Humanity

Tacoma Urban League

United Way of Pierce County

University of Washington – Tacoma

YMCA of Pierce & Kitsap Counties

YWCA Pierce County

We are all welcome to share this email with other organizations and invite them to join the list.  Please let me know if other organizations wish to join so I can add them to the list.  I would then redistribute the list as it grows so we all can show it on our web sites and social media, along with the link to the Op-Ed essay.  Here is the link again:  https://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/op-ed/article242925576.html

Remember our hope is that this very impressive group of organizations can perhaps become the animating core of the local campaign that will be necessary to support a local housing trust fund, and other housing initiatives.

Thank you all!

          Michael