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Charlottesville housing board hears call to eliminate $35 minimum rent, discusses nonprofit formation and eviction-diversion funding
Summary
At a CRHA meeting, a Legal Aid attorney urged eliminating a $35 minimum rent as economically unworkable for very low-income tenants; the board heard staff updates on eviction-diversion needs, property management outreach, and counsel outlined a 6–9 month timeline to seek IRS tax-exempt status for a proposed nonprofit entity.
Victoria Borak, an attorney with the Legal Aid Justice Center, urged the Charlottesville Redevelopment Housing Authority (CRHA) to consider eliminating the authority’s $35 minimum rent during the board’s public-comment period. “There are pending cases right now that CRHA has against tenants who only pay $35 in rent…it's almost impossible that CRHA would ever recover that income from those people through the court process,” Borak said, adding that each court filing costs the authority about $61 plus attorney fees.
Borak told commissioners the minimum-rent rule places “a lot of stress” on tenants who rely on small amounts of income for essentials and argued that removing the minimum would reduce administrative…
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