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Committee backs bill to create state homelessness-prevention program under DCA
Summary
A state committee approved House Bill 689 to create a framework under the Department of Community Affairs for a state-funded homelessness-prevention grant program that would mirror earlier emergency rental assistance distributed with federal ARPA funds.
House Bill 689, which would establish a homelessness-prevention grant program under the Department of Community Affairs, moved forward after a voice vote in the State Planning and Community Affairs Committee on March 3.
The legislation would authorize the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) to create a state program to provide grants to local organizations for eviction-prevention and rental-assistance work if the General Assembly appropriates funds to do so, Chairman Carpenter said during the committee meeting.
The bill matters because federal emergency rental assistance, issued after the COVID-19 pandemic, is due to run out in September and committee members said there remains…
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