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Panel urges permanent funding for Maryland’s Access to Counsel in Evictions program
Summary
Witnesses told the House Appropriations Committee that the ACE program — Access to Counsel in Evictions — has produced an 88% success rate for tenants who want to remain housed and generated large state savings, and testimony asked the committee to make funding from abandoned property permanent.
House Bill 103 would remove the sunset on funding for Maryland's Access to Counsel in Evictions (ACE) program and make the current $14 million annual contribution from the state's abandoned property fund a permanent source for the program.
Former Attorney General Brian Frosh, who helped create the program, described ACE as a "paradigm of success" and urged the committee to retain funding. "The record of this access to counsel and evictions program over the past couple of years... has…
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