The new proposal adds a camping ban around permanent shelters, as well as five-block camping bans around schools, parks, and ...

Tacoma’s current ban, which prohibits camping near schools, shelters, and daycares, was passed in 2022 after Councilmember ...

The Tacoma City Council is considering a proposal to expand the camping ban to include areas around places like parks, ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Tents fill a stretch of South Altheimer St. in Tacoma. Right near them is the Give Me a Chance Family Shelter. Kendra Jenkins is the intake coordinator and says the encampment has been ...

Tacoma's current camping ordinance bans encampments by temporary and emergency shelters. Proposed changes broaden the ban to near libraries, schools, and parks.

Workers cleanup trash from the encampment underneath Interstate 705 in downtown Tacoma on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. Two years after passing an ordinance prohibiting public camping, the City of Tacoma has ...

Providers and advocates are saying people who are unhoused are less receptive to outreach personnel and are moving to more isolated areas, where it may be harder to reach them. The Tacoma City Council ...

TACOMA, Wash. — The Tacoma City Council approved an ordinance banning camping on public property within 10 blocks of temporary shelters Tuesday night. The ordinance, sponsored by Councilmembers John ...

TACOMA, Wash. — An ordinance is now in effect in Tacoma banning camping in certain parts of the city. Tacoma City Councilmemberspassed the ordinance on Oct. 11 and it took effect Monday. The ordinance ...

City Council passed the same law in 2017, but it quietly sun-setted at the end of 2019, several months before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused a pause in encampment clean-ups across ...

A proposed ordinance imposing restrictions on public camping in Tacoma has essentially been tabled until more housing or sheltering services are available. The proposed ordinance in November was sent ...