Mayor Brandon Scott Created A Program That Will Help Families Facing Eviction Get Resources They Need

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Mayor Brandon M. Scott is announcing the details of a program starting contiguous that volition link radical and families facing eviction with resources and enactment astatine the courthouse.

The Baltimore City Pandemic Rent Court Program will let litigants to use for back-rent assistance on-site at rent court through Baltimore’s Eviction Prevention Program. This is administered by the Baltimore City Community Action Partnership (BCCAP).

This program is just one component of the Scott administration’s eviction prevention strategy for susceptible residents and families.

The BCCAP unit volition enactment with landlords and tenants to resoluteness issues and settee debts. Judges tin notation litigants to on-site BCCAP unit to use for back-rent assistance.

On Friday, Mayor Scott sent a letter to the District Court of Maryland requesting their concern successful promoting the BCCAP in the courtroom. The missive besides encouraged the judges to usage their authorization to urge voluntary postponements of pending evictions and stock eviction filing accusation with the medication successful bid to amended serve Baltimoreans successful need.

“To guarantee a beardown commencement to the program and its semipermanent effectiveness, I americium calling on the court to leverage its authorization to proactively beforehand the Baltimore City Pandemic Rent Court Program with tenants and landlords to maximize eviction diversion,” wrote Mayor Scott successful the September 10, 2021 letter.

“The Pandemic Rent Court Program represents one of several captious partnerships we person forged to maximize the scope and impact of the Eviction Prevention Program,” said MOCFS Executive Director Tisha Edwards.

In summation to this court-based program, the Scott medication continues to prioritize eviction prevention by providing rent support, back rent recovery, relocation services, and ineligible representation.

As of August 27, Baltimore City’s Eviction Prevention Program disbursed $21.6 cardinal successful past-due rent payments, assisted 4,487 households to travel current on rent, and averted astir 1,044 eviction proceedings.

Residents with eviction notices person expedited assistance.

To halt cases from landing successful the courts, the Scott medication made an statement with the Baltimore City Sheriff’s Office, which is sharing accusation with the City about pending evictions truthful that contiguous enactment tin beryllium taken to settee debts and support radical successful their homes.

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“We cognize that erstwhile tenants person entree to ineligible services, they are little apt to beryllium unfairly evicted,” said Acting Housing Commissioner Alice Kennedy. “It prevents displacement and homelessness, and reduces lodging instability and trauma.”