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Housing and advocacy groups ask for $25 million to continue state emergency rental assistance pilot

2331014 · February 18, 2025
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Summary

A coalition including Enterprise Community Partners and legal services groups asked the committee to fund a $25 million state emergency rental assistance program to replace expiring federal COVID‑ERA funds and to prevent evictions and their downstream costs.

Representatives of housing and legal advocacy organizations asked the House Appropriations Subcommittee to appropriate $25 million to continue the Department of Community Affairs' emergency rental assistance pilot when federal funds expire.

Elizabeth Apley, representing a coalition that included House ATL, Enterprise Community Partners, the Corporation for Supportive Housing, 9 to 5 Georgia and others, said…

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