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Commissioners weigh tenant-protection options and a complaint portal after Pahokee housing crisis
Summary
Palm Beach County commissioners discussed creating a centralized tenant-complaint portal, limits of county authority in municipal jurisdictions and possible tenant protections after staff briefed the board on displaced Pahokee residents and related funding.
The Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners spent a substantial portion of its meeting discussing how to respond to reports of substandard housing and displaced residents in Pahokee and whether the county can strengthen tenant protections.
Mayor Melissa Baxter asked staff to evaluate bringing code-enforcement services back to the county for affected areas, saying she wanted staff "to evaluate transition the services back to us so we can make sure that this is done appropriately." Jonathan Brown, appearing for staff, said the county is preparing code-action plans and noted the county would award $45,000 to the City of…
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