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Residents press Franklin County over $4.4 million housing trust fund and homelessness concerns
Summary
Two residents urged the commissioners to keep housing trust funds for affordable housing rather than using them to offset general operations; county staff said the $4.4 million referenced was federal emergency rental assistance that was expended and that the housing trust fund grew in the 2024–25 budget.
Public commenters at the Franklin County commissioners meeting urged officials to preserve funds for affordable housing after expressing concern that $4.4 million from a housing trust fund had been moved into the general budget.
John Jordan, a resident, said Chambersburg bears much of the county’s visible homelessness and asked whether $4,400,000 from the county’s affordable housing trust was used to avoid a…
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