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Advocates urge funding boost for human-rights enforcement and press for true cost-of-living measure
Summary
Nonprofits, Legal Aid and housing advocates told the Council that chronic underfunding of the Commission on Civil and Human Rights (CCHR) undermines enforcement; several witnesses called on the mayor to restore or increase funding (witnesses proposed $25 million for FY27) and urged timely release and use of the true cost of living metric to guide budget decisions.
At the public testimony portion of the Committee on Civil and Human Rights hearing, a coalition of legal services providers, fair housing advocates and community groups urged the Council to press the mayor to restore and increase funding for the city's civil-rights enforcement agency and to use a true cost of living metric to inform budget decisions.
Rebecca Kukmack, a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society, said the mayor's preliminary budget continues "the cycle of disinvestment" at the Commission on Civil and Human Rights and previewed March testimony calling for a restoration to $25 million in FY27…
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