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Tacoma migrant complex faces closure. Hundreds must move out

The Seattle Times The Seattle Times·Nina Shapiro·4 days ago
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For two years, a former hotel in Tacoma has been one of the state’s only housing complexes dedicated to migrants , with more than 300 residents as of this week. Now, everybody needs to move out.

The nonprofit running the complex, Thrive International, announced Wednesday it is facing dissolution after a legal battle with a landlord produced a financial crisis.

Anna Bondarenko, who has run Thrive Center Tacoma from the start, cried as she talked about its closure. With the help of Thrive, Pierce County and community groups, almost all the residents have found new, permanent housing. Much of it is in buildings with units set aside as affordable in exchange for tax breaks and other benefits to developers.

Still, Bondarenko said, “We’re losing a community.”

That community arose after thousands of migrants who had crossed the southern border arrived in the Puget Sound region several years ago.…

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