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Tenants and housing advocates urge council to revive rent-stabilization vote, tie housing stability to youth outcomes
Summary
During the Education, Youth and Family Services Committee meeting, speakers representing housing advocacy groups said unstable housing undermines student attendance and learning and urged the committee and council to support rent stabilization measures that were recently voted down.
Housing advocates told the Wilmington City Council Education, Youth and Family Services Committee on June 11 that unstable housing directly harms students and families and urged the committee to back rent-stabilization policies that advocates said would keep children in schools.
"When housing is unstable, everything else starts to fall apart, especially for our young people," said Brandon, an organizer with the…
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