Anders Ibsen

Nonpartisan

The city needs to double down on locally-rooted economic development strategies like the Tacoma Anchor Network to create more stable job opportunities.

By focusing on the green-collar jobs of the future as part of our economic development focus, we can enhance the health of our city, undo our history of environmental racism, and build real opportunities for working people.

The Tacoma city government can work on growing wealth and entrepreneurship in underserved communities by making city contracting more accessible and user-friendly to local Black-owned businesses.

By strategically reducing recidivism and improving jail diversion, we can improve neighborhood quality of life; provide constructive alternatives to crime for our youth; and free up Tacoma police officers to address the worst offenders.

We must demand a truly regional approach to homelessness in which the county and neighboring cities coordinate with Tacoma in a homelessness reduction plan that is actually strategic, measurable, accountable, and fair.

Our city government needs to prioritize bringing down the cost of childcare for Tacoma families, increasing the amount of daycare providers through reducing zoning restrictions, and incentivizing employers to provide more on-site daycare for their workers.

We need more housing in general, but we especially need to create more entry-level housing that is actually affordable to families beginning their homebuying journey.