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Dec 19, 2020
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Kandise Norris, shown here with her three children in a Nov. 7 photo outside their home in Somerset County, Maryland, says she has been rebuilding her life since getting treatment for drug addiction in April 2019.
CRISFIELD, Md. (AP) Public housing is supposed to be a solution to homelessness, not a cause of it.
But in Crisfield, a city of 2,600 on the Chesapeake Bay, the housing authority is one of the leading eviction filers. It files cases against tenants so often that officials hired a contractor to automate the process.
The agency owns just 330 units yet filed 718 times in 2019, all over late rent. In nearly 30% of those cases, records show, tenants owed less than $100.
In public housing, a small debt can get poor tenants evicted
by Bryan Gallion, Maya Pottiger, Kara Newhouse, Ryan Little, Trisha Ahmed, Jenna Pierson, Anastazja Kolodziej And Allison Mollenkamp / The Howard Center For Investigative Journalism, University Of Maryland, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 18, 2020 9:02 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 18, 2020 at 9:14 am EDT
Kandise Norris, shown here with her three children in a Nov. 7 photo outside their home in Somerset County, Maryland, says she has been rebuilding her life since getting treatment for drug addiction in April 2019. The Housing Authority of Crisfield, Maryland, which owns her house, has filed three eviction cases against the 30-year-old since September. (Nick McMillan/Howard Center for Investigative Journalism via AP)
The Richmond City Council is poised to dedicate millions more on an annual basis for the construction of new affordable housing in the city.
A council panel on Thursday endorsed a measure proposed by Mayor Levar Stoney that would establish a steady funding source for the cityâs Affordable Housing Trust Fund. A majority of the councilâs returning members say they support passing it when the ordinance comes up for a vote in early 2021.
âWe are far behind in making this move,â said Ellen Robertson, the 6th District councilwoman who backs the measure.
If approved, the ordinance would direct new tax dollars from expiring real estate abatements to the city fund that supports private development projects with units reserved for people earning less than the regionâs median income, which is approximately $89,000.
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