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Residents press council to prioritize anti–rent-gouging legislation and protect housing funding

5734436 · September 8, 2025
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Speakers during public comment urged Richmond City Council to add anti–rent-gouging measures to the legislative agenda and to preserve affordable-housing revenues after multiple speakers claimed housing funds have been diverted.

Multiple residents used the public-comment period to press Richmond City Council to prioritize anti–rent-gouging legislation at the state level and to demand that the city preserve funding intended for affordable housing.

Casey Miller, a renter in the Seventh District, told council “56% of us in this city rent,” and urged the council to ask the General Assembly to make anti–rent-gouging legislation a priority. Miller said she had traveled to Richmond earlier in the year to support SB…

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