At The Treasury 1929, models sashayed up and down the runway with the aim of keeping one of Tucson’s essential affordable housing organizations alive.
“I think we are becoming a force in the community, in the aim of affordable housing,” said Christie Lee, president and CEO of TMM Family Services, which hosted its second annual Runway to Resilience event on Oct. 21. “And it is so critical to have affordable housing for every business owner. At the end of the day, I would like to say to a restaurant owner or a construction company, ‘Your wait staff, your laborers, if they can’t afford to live here, they’re not going to stay here. And what is that going to do to your talent pipeline? What is that going to do to your employee retention?’”
“Let’s band together as a community and really support the needs of our people who live here, right? They don’t deserve to end up on the streets just because of where inflation is today or where housing costs are.”…