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Legal aid funding wraps up as demand for rental assistance and tenant services grows, witnesses say
Summary
Witnesses told lawmakers that Vermont Legal Aid’s federally funded housing work is scheduled to end June 30, 2025, while demand for tenant assistance has increased; outreach data and small rental-assistance programs were discussed as policymakers weigh funding and program design.
At the Jan. 22 joint hearing, Vermont Legal Aid and community housing advocates described rising demand for tenant assistance and concerns about the end of current federal grant funding for certain legal-aid housing programs.
Jean Murray, project director of the Housing for Everyone Law Project at Vermont Legal Aid, said federally funded housing-work grants that supported intensive outreach and representation will end June 30, 2025. Murray told the committees that Legal Aid used judiciary case lists to send outreach letters in roughly 92% of eviction filings and opened assistance cases for about half of the people who responded. She said those outreach efforts materially…
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