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Committee advances homelessness-prevention bill that raises eviction filing fee
Summary
The committee released S.268, a substitute that revises the homelessness prevention program, includes a filing-fee increase for eviction proceedings and consolidates related DCA rules; testimony featured eviction researchers, housing advocates and landlord representatives debating the fee’s effects.
Senate bill S.268 (committee substitute) was released after extended testimony over homelessness-prevention funding and a proposed increase in the eviction filing fee. Committee staff described the substitute as codifying Department of Community Affairs rules and merging provisions addressing eviction-filing fees and use of those fees for homelessness-prevention purposes.
The hearing drew sharply contrasting testimony. Peter Hepburn of the Eviction Lab (introduced as an associate director and researcher) told the committee that increasing eviction filing fees…
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