Common Good Tacoma joins coalition partners to say NO on camping ban expansion

Ahead of the Tacoma City Council meeting on Tuesday, October 14, 2025, Common Good Tacoma partnered with outreach workers in our Outreach Collective and Tacoma 4 All in supporting unhoused neighbors. We demand our taxpayer money is spent creating stability and solving the affordable housing crisis.

The proposed massive expansion of the camping ban in Tacoma is a policy that targets neighbors who sleep outside, confiscates survival gear, and will effectively making being homeless illegal in Tacoma. The City spends $12 million a year on sweeps already. We know there is a better way forward.

Sophia Agtarap 10/10/25 Sophia Agtarap 10/10/25

Tacoma is fixing homelessness? That’s not what I see every day

“As a homeless outreach worker, I’ve witnessed first hand the misinformed and ridiculous policies our current City Council have proposed and implemented to address homelessness in Tacoma.” - Jake Nau, Common Good Tacoma Co-Director and Community Resource Center Outreach Manager with St. Vincent de Paul

Sophia Agtarap 7/30/25 Sophia Agtarap 7/30/25

Candidates running for mayor in Tacoma participate in forum on housing, labor issues

Sophia Agtarap 6/30/25 Sophia Agtarap 6/30/25

Advocating for the common good means calling out genocidal effort

Sophia Agtarap 5/27/25 Sophia Agtarap 5/27/25

Tacoma educators protest layoffs

Several hundred community members gathered for a Save Our Students rally and march on May 22 at Common Good Tacoma.

Sophia Agtarap 1/20/25 Sophia Agtarap 1/20/25

Providing relief in the coldest snaps is one thing that's within our power to do

"If we can keep folks alive by having them set up tents inside, where it's about 68 to 70 degrees if that means extending the life and quality of life for neighbors on the streets or not, I think we're living within our values." Rev. Shalom Agtarap, Tacoma First United Methodist Church and Common Good Tacoma