To change the system of property development from one in which corporate developers benefit from local government subsidies to produce luxury developments on the backs of low-wage workers, to one that uses these subsidies to bring the benefits of new investment to the entire community through worker-affordable housing and local, permanent, living wage jobs and training. Also to expose the excessive profitability of large insurance companies in Washington State that contribute to poverty and debt to low-wage workers and insure affordable health care for all Washington residents.

See below for updates about campaigns related to this priority:

Working Poor Retain "Downtown Tacoma" Shelter (July, 2008)

Homeless Workers Save the King Shelter Beyond July 1 (May, 2008)

Stop the fishy Tacoma deals, defend our local democracy (February, 2008)

Sleeping with Wal-Mart Can Cost a Mayor's Career (January, 2008)

Talbert Loses Touch With Workers of Tacoma (December, 2007)

Fircrest Victory Over Wal-Mart Marks JwJ’s Campaign for Responsible Development (September, 2007)

Poverty-Wage Paying Developer Breaks Affordable Housing Contract in Tacoma and Runs from Community Friendly Commitment (July, 2007)

City of Tacoma Raises Job Standards for New Project. Is Ruston Next? (July, 2007)

Living-Wage Paid Roofers to Start Work on Luxury Tacoma Condo (May, 2007)

Big-box ordinance in Bellingham a relief for residents . . . Ferndale and Whatcom County follow suit (March, 2007)

Shifting Tacoma’s developer policy starts at the Winthrop (March, 2007)

West End Community and JwJ Tell Wal-Mart "Show Us Social Responsibility"... Wal-Mart Disappears - for now (November 2006)

South Sound activists fight for public housing in the Winthrop hat trick (November, 2006)

Bellingham Wal-Mart expansion blocked as JwJ fights for a more sustainable business model (November, 2006)