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Board previews $465,761 contract with Metropolitan Public Defender to support Housing for Success program
Summary
County staff presented a proposed $465,761 personal services contract with Metropolitan Public Defender to provide on-demand civil legal services (eviction defense, expungement, appeals, accommodation requests) as part of the Housing for Success program; staff said services fill an on-demand gap for a cohort of ~110–135 households.
Mary Rumbaugh, director of Health, Housing and Human Services, and Vahid Brown, division director of Housing and Community Development, briefed the board on a proposed personal services contract with Metropolitan Public Defender to provide civil legal services that support the newly launched Housing for Success program.
Staff described the contract—$465,761 for two years and four months funded through Metro Supportive Housing Services (SHS) measure funds and not by county general funds—as intended to…
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