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Former Tacoma meth motel may house homeless

TACOMA, Wash. — The City of Tacoma is reportedly eyeing a motel once called meth infested as short-term housing for the city's homeless.

City officials confirmed this week that they're mulling the idea of turning what was once the Calico Cat Motel, now known as the Pacific Lodge, on Pacific Avenue South near South 88th, into the third phase of their homeless solution.

It would turn what some have called a blight into transitional housing.

According to the News Tribune, Tacoma city officials, including Mayor Strickland, openly floated the homeless housing idea at a study session.

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