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Office of the Mayor
City of Tukwila, Washington
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, all people should have access to safe, healthy, and affordable homes within communities
of opportunity; and
WHEREAS, housing stability and staying socially distant from those outside of our household has
become our state's core public health strategy; and
WHEREAS, Governor Inslee has recognized the correlation between housing access and vulnerability
and has extended a residential eviction moratorium through June 30, 2021, to prevent families and
individuals from losing their housing; and
WHEREAS, the Centers for Disease Control recognizes safe, healthy, and affordable housing within
communities of opportunity as key social determinants of health; and
WHEREAS, the King County community has responded to the historic challenges presented by the
pandemic, by delivering direct supports to families and individuals in precarious housing situations;
and
WHEREAS, everyone benefits from affordable housing, including the people who reside in these
properties, their neighbors, businesses, employers, and the community as a whole; and
WHEREAS, united in an effort to raise public awareness, communities throughout King County are
participating in local Affordable Housing Week efforts to elevate the critical need to create healthy
communities with ample affordable housing; and
WHEREAS, the City of Tukwila endorses the goals, objectives, and purposes of Affordable Housing Week,
and in doing so, firmly recommits itself to ensuring that our community's recovery from the crises at
hand is equitable, and that all people in Tukwila live with dignity in safe, healthy, and affordable homes;
NOW THEREFORE, I, Allan Ekberg, Mayor of the City of Tukwila, do hereby proclaim May 10 - 17, 2021
as:
Affordable Housing Week
in the City of Tukwila and encourage all community residents to join me in recognizing this special
observance.
Signed this third day of May, 2021.
Allan Ekberg, Mayo
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