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Council hears updates on Right to Counsel: state grants, RFPs and limited outreach capacity for defaulted tenants
Summary
Law department and Right to Counsel director reported state awards, RFPs for tenant representation and limits on outreach; council moved parts of eviction-defense funding and outreach discussion into executive session.
Diamond Conley, executive director of the city’s Right to Counsel program, told the council the program has preserved housing for thousands of tenants but that outreach capacity for tenants who default and miss court dates remains limited.
Conley said the program has enabled about 3,546 tenants to remain in their homes and that the law department expects to spend the full $18 million ARPA allocation for the eviction-defense initiative through fiscal year 2026 with the current mix of ARPA and general-fund support.
The city has been awarded $2.5 million in state funds, Conley said. She described two…
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