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Advocates urge High Point council to support right‑to‑counsel and rental assistance to prevent evictions
Summary
Representatives from the American Friends Service Committee asked the High Point City Council to endorse a countywide right‑to‑counsel resolution and to support creating a rental assistance fund, citing local eviction statistics and cost‑saving studies from other jurisdictions.
Representatives from the American Friends Service Committee asked the High Point City Council to endorse a countywide right‑to‑counsel resolution and to support a rental assistance fund to prevent evictions.
Cece (Cecily) Crawford, program director for the American Friends Service Committee of North Carolina, described a recent court case of an elderly renter who faced eviction after paying a utility bill needed for an oxygen tank. Crawford…
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