I’d like to commend the City of Enumclaw for hosting a housing planning meeting to address the issue of affordable housing. This is a national issue and it needs a national solution for working families and seniors. We need our Senators and representatives in Washington D.C. to consider a Renters Tax Credit modeled after the Child Tax Credit of 2021 to help working families with the high cost of renting.

The Child Tax Credit of 2021 was successful by taking 46% of children out of poverty. Let’s help those living in poverty by renewing the Child Tax Credit in the American Family Act and create a Renter Tax Credit to alleviate the high cost of rent throughout the United States and here is Washington State. Let’s use the tax code to help Americans the way it was designed to do.

Maureen Schnell

Black Diamond