Human Rights Commission
                                                             AGENDA
                                                     Housing Sub Committee
                                                          March 17, 2021
                                                    Virtual/Electronic Meeting
                                                              4:00 pm

    Please take Notice that this virtual meeting of the Human Rights Commission is for the purposes of planning, developing and
    drafting management and administration documents for the Human Rights Commission. For the purpose of addressing
    issues during the quarantine, this virtual meeting will be a limited public forum to discuss the agenda items designated under
    Section 5 below and to ensure the continuity of services provided by the Commission. The Commission Chair may limit public
    comments or discussion points that are unrelated to agenda items under Section 5 or that pertain to topics outside the scope
    of this Agenda. Members of the public are limited to three minutes of comment time per person related to the Agenda below.
    A maximum of sixteen public comment time slots are allotted per meeting. This will be a virtual/electronic meeting open to the
    public and registration information is available at www.charlottesville.gov/zoom.

    Link to Human Rights Commission shared Box folder: https://app.box.com/s/xty3wnn2s1tj8h7trkknvd79bipyxezy

    1. WELCOME
          a. CALL TO ORDER
          b. ROLL CALL
          c. SELECTION OF SUB COMMITTEE CHAIR
          d. MISSION (recited by all): Act as a strong advocate to justice and equal opportunity by providing
             citywide leadership and guidance in the area of civil rights.
    2. MATTERS BY THE PUBLIC
          a. PUBLIC COMMENT (Webinar attendees use the “raise hand” function, phone attendees use *9)
          b. COMMISSION RESPONSE TO MATTERS BY THE PUBLIC
    3. WORK SESSION
          a. Follow- up with issues identified at HRC retreat
                   i. Strengthen our city’s capacity to support issues of housing by developing pipelines for legal
                      representation during eviction cases.
                  ii. Amplify the work of housing advocates by putting Commission support behind strategies that
                      will heal legacies of discrimination.
                 iii. Support tenants by advocating for a policy that all those in eviction proceedings would be
                      entitled to counsel.
                 iv. Legal representation also for those who bring complaints to Commission.
                  v. Gather data of how many evictions proceeding in a year and how many don’t have lawyers.
                           1. Tracking the outcomes of eviction without lawyers.
                           2. Advocate for the adoption of policy for City Council.
                           3. Who could be our partners?
    4. MATTERS BY THE PUBLIC
          a. PUBLIC COMMENT (Webinar attendees use the “raise hand” function, phone attendees use *9)
          b. COMMISSION RESPONSE TO MATTERS BY THE PUBLIC
    5. NEXT STEPS
    6. ADJOURN



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