YIMBY News for 11/23

[Eric Budd]

Ibsen and Palmer Prevail in Tacoma, Pledging Housing, Safe Streets Push

The Urbanist

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Tacoma Mayor-Elect Anders Ibsen and incoming Councilmember Latasha Palmer shared their early plans. One of the reasons newly elected Tacoma City Councilmember Latasha Palmer thinks she won is that Tacomans were looking for “something different.” “The results came as a pleasant surprise,” she told *The Urbanist*. “I think it really served as reassurance that the voters are … looking for not the status quo and something that’s going to be a little bit more effective.” Palmer isn’t the only “different” Pierce County candidate to win, either. Anders Ibsen beat out sitting councilmember John Hines,

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