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Anders Ibsen
Tacoma City Mayor
About the Office
The Mayor is the chief executive officer of the municipality. They often preside over council meetings and may have the power to hire and fire heads of municipal departments.
Term Length
4 years
Election Date
Nov 4, 2025
About Me
Party
Nonpartisan
Occupation
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My Top Issues
Economy
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.
Civil Rights
Ensuring safety for all Tacomans means standing up to protect everyone’s basic rights.
Criminal Justice / Public Safety
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.
Housing
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.
Housing
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.
Economy
The city needs to double down on locally-rooted economic development strategies like the Tacoma Anchor Network to create more stable job opportunities.
Economy
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.
Wages / Job Benefits
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.
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