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Council updates housing-services plan, allocates up to $150,000 for medical respite pilot and reschedules final action
Summary
The Pierce County Council approved two committee amendments to the six-year Housing and Related Services advisory expenditure plan, including a reallocation of modest permanent supportive housing funds to start a medical respite pilot, and moved the larger ordinance into a second substitute with continuation to Sept. 9 for additional work.
The Pierce County Council on Aug. 26 amended and continued work on the county’s six-year advisory expenditure and implementation plan for the Maureen Howard Affordable Housing Act fund (one-tenth of 1% sales tax for housing and related services). Council staff summarized the plan’s structure and funding splits: 10% for administration and 90% for program uses; within program costs, 50% for development and preservation capital serving households at 30–60% of area median income (AMI), 30% for capital serving households below 30% AMI, and 20% for permanent supportive housing (PSH) services. Staff noted available PSH services funding from…
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