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Residents and advocates press aldermen to fund right-to-counsel, tenant impact fund and emergency shelter capacity
Summary
Speakers at the budget hearing urged the committee to increase funding for the Right to Counsel program (advocates estimate $2 million annual need), the Impacted Tenants/tenant relief fund, affordable-housing preservation, and emergency winter shelter/outreach.
Multiple residents and housing advocates used public comment at the Budget Committee hearing to call for larger city investments in tenant legal aid, tenant relocation support, affordable-housing preservation and winter shelter capacity.
What advocates asked for: - Full funding of the Right to Counsel program. Several speakers (Alvania Creighton, Damon Starks, Rachel Hurtado) said the city-funded right-to-counsel effort is under-resourced; speakers recommended a program scale of roughly $2,000,000 annually to handle eviction filings at city scale. "This program is not functional...it is extremely underfunded," Hurtado said of the current…
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