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Vermont Legal Aid urges committee to allow pilot funds to be used statewide
Summary
Vermont Legal Aid told the House General & Housing Committee that its tenant-representation pilot closed 79 eviction cases in seven months and asked H704 to let the program use existing Act 47 funds beyond Windsor and Lamoille counties while seeking additional funding for expansion.
Sarah Cagle, an attorney and project director at Vermont Legal Aid, told the House General & Housing Committee on March 12 that H704 would let the agency use funds already allocated under Act 47 more broadly to serve tenants outside the pilot’s current counties.
Cagle said the tenant-representation pilot (TRP), funded beginning 11/01/2024 pursuant to Act 47, has closed 79 eviction cases between 08/01/2025 and 03/11/2026. “Of those 79 closed cases, 58 were cases where it was appropriate to measure whether representation prevented eviction,” she said, and of those 58 cases 26 people remained housed in the same unit when the case closed, which Cagle described as one measure of success.
The pilot was originally limited to Windsor and Lamoille counties; the statute and…
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