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Workgroup suggests prioritizing $2 million to preserve case-management positions tied to emergency rental assistance
Summary
Members debated using $2 million in one-time Housing Opportunity Grant funds to replace community-based case-management positions formerly funded by ERAP, versus keeping the money for shelter expansion; the committee recommended listing both needs and clarifying priorities for Appropriations.
Committee members reviewed recommended budget language that would direct $2 million of one-time Housing Opportunity Grant funds to partially replace community-based positions previously funded through the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP).
The language proposed naming the services that the money should backfill—housing navigation, housing retention, landlord outreach and education, legal eviction prevention services, and credit and money-management coaching—rather than using the more general phrase…
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