Pierce County Human Services will host a virtual Community Feedback Session on Wednesday, Oct. 15, from 5 – 8 p.m., to gather resident input on the Draft Comprehensive Plan to End Homelessness Update. This session is the last of three public meetings held this year to inform the plan, which serves as Pierce County’s required State Five-Year…
Category: Housing
At risk of a foreclosure? Assistance and low income purchase options
If you have been struggling to make your mortgage payments, have tried talking to the mortgage company for relief, and still are struggling to make those payments int he face of a looming foreclosure notice, here is an option. The State of Washington has a Foreclosure Fairness Program, this is the link. You can get…
YOU’RE INVITED: PERMITTING WITH PIERCE COUNTY CLASS
Understanding Recent Land Use and Housing Code Updates Last month, the Pierce County Council adopted updates to the land use and housing regulations. These changes are part of the County’s work to implement its Comprehensive Plan update. They also align with regional growth strategies, including the Puget Sound Regional Council’s Vision 2050 and the state’s Growth Management Act. The…
Hungry, homeless children
Are you one of those truly kind people who sees the television advertisements for hungry, homeless children starving in Africa or India or poor sorrowful pets that need forever homes and writes a check? So good of you to do so, really. If I tell you there are starving, homeless children, over 200 of them,…
May 23 court reconsideration hearing for Spanaway Concerned Citizens
UPDATE: The Court stood by its decision, 5/23/2025, 9:34 a.m. Testifying were Atty David Bricklin for Spanaway Concerned Citizens, Atty Margaret Archer for TRM, and Dave Owen for Pierce County. The Honorable Thurston County Superior Court Judge Carol Murphy has asked for responses from Tacoma Rescue Mission and Pierce County to our motion for reconsideration,…
Effective homeless family program to expand
By Marianne Lincoln Over a month ago, the board of Family Promise of Pierce County voted to add a dba (doing business as) name to its license. The name Family Promise of Puget Sound was added due to interest from Kitsap, Thurston and King Counties, in the project started in Spanaway. With all the noise…
Is There Enough Water for 48,000 More Residents Moving to Spanaway this Decade?
By Kirk Kirkland and Al Schmauder Will Pierce County be able to meet future demand for clean drinking water required by increasing population and development in the Chambers-Clover watershed? Two years ago, Pierce County altered zoning along Pacific Avenue, 112th Street, Meridian, and 176th Street to allow up to 5 story buildings within one quarter…
Is the Good Neighbor Village being a good neighbor?
SPANAWAWY CONCERNED CITIZENS — We still have a real chance to stop the “Good Neighbor Village” project—and we are not giving up! Spanaway Concerned Citizens has filed a motion in Thurston County Superior Court, asking the Honorable Judge Carol Murphy to reconsider her recent dismissal of our Land Use Petition Act (“LUPA”) challenge. This motion…
$12.2 million available to support development, preservation of affordable housing
PIERCE COUNTY — Pierce County Human Services is seeking proposals from qualified organizations to support the acquisition, rehabilitation, or new construction of capital affordable rental housing projects. $12.2 million is available thanks to the Maureen Howard Affordable Housing Act, which implemented a one-tenth of 1% Housing and Related Services Tax in Pierce County, outside the…
May 9 Gala for Family Promise
On May 9, Family Promise of Pierce County will be holding a Gala Dinner and Auction Fundraiser at the Parkland School Gymnasium. The event will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at 214 121st Street South, Parkland, WA 98444. General admission is $75 per person, VIP tickets will be $125 per person. You…
Help! It’s COLD out there!
Two operations in the Parkland Spanaway area have been reaching out for assistance as they try to help others who are without housing in this cold Winter weather. Family Promise of Pierce County, located in the Parkland Community Center at 121st and Pacific Avenue was called up to be the warming center for Pierce County….
Warming Centers are open – Parkland Community Center
Pierce Transit partnered with the Pierce County Department of Emergency Management to provide free rides to warming centers through Jan. 22. The free rides are in effect starting Jan. 19, according to Pierce Transit. There will be a free bus, Runner and SHUTTLE paratransit (for registered SHUTTLE customers) rides to local centers and shelters. “The…
Pierce Prairie Post 