Council members heard a presentation on the Access to Counsel Pilot Program that would increasing funding to allow more low-income people to have access to legal representation.
“The home is the center of life. It is a refuge from the grind of work, the pressure of school, and the menace of the streets.
We say that at home, we can ‘be ourselves.’ Everywhere else, we are someone else. At home, we remove our masks.”
From Matthew Desmond’s 2016 book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.
In their mid-pandemic search for a three-bedroom home, Denise and Greg Townsend found rental listings for three apartments that appealed to them. Located in their longtime community of Santa Monica, all three apartments featured rents low enough so that the math penciled out with the Townsends’ budget and Section 8 housing voucher.