TACOMA — Nearly two years since the Pierce County Council passed the Maureen Howard Affordable Housing Act, the sales tax has generated roughly $22 million in affordable-housing investments.

According to the county, the Maureen Howard Affordable Housing fund has helped develop more than 680 units of affordable housing — with hundreds more in the pipeline.

The Maureen Howard Affordable Housing Act — named after a prominent advocate for the homeless in Tacoma who died in January 2023 was — passed in March 2023. The ordinance implemented a one-tenth of 1 percent sales tax to fund affordable housing and related services.

The Maureen Howard Housing Sales Tax was anticipated to generate more than $18 million in revenue, tripling the amount of affordable-housing funding the county had the year

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