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Public commenter urges Spokane County to adopt 0.1% "15‑90" sales tax to fund housing
Summary
At the Sept. 16 Board of County Commissioners meeting a public commenter presented homelessness data for Spokane County and asked the board to enact a sales-and-use tax authorized under RCW 82.14.530 to fund low‑income housing; commissioners approved consent items 3a–f unanimously and made no formal decision on the petition.
Becky Diggerhoff, a public commenter, told the Spokane County Board of County Commissioners during the board's Sept. 16 meeting that homelessness in Spokane County has increased and urged the commission to enact what she called the "15‑90 tax," a 0.1% sales-and-use tax authorized by RCW 82.14.530, to fund low-income housing.
Diggerhoff presented local data she attributed to Spokane Trends, saying the county recorded 2,378 students identified as unhoused under the McKinney‑Vento definition during the 2023–24 school year, up from 1,790 in the 2007–08 school year. She said…
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