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Well then we'll call this meeting in order.

Turn it over to you all, I think.

Turning it right back over to you.

Is it over to our guests?

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Well, good evening, everyone.

Thank you for allowing us to come back and present an update on our access to council pilot.

I would I would have a joke about how many times I'm here.

But I'm excited to be back again this Wednesday.

We love so before we get started.

I really want to recognize our partners in the room who have really helped make this possible.

So we have folks from Montgomery County.

I'm sorry, City of Dayton, Clerk of Court, advocates for basic legal equality, learn to earn.

Omega is not, I'm not sure if anybody from Omega C of Mega is one of our partners.

And then we have Stout, who is the organization that did the comprehensive evaluation where you're going to hear a lot of the updates from how our pilot is feeling, how it's been doing over the last year and a half.

And I also want to say I'm thankful to the many community partners that have worked with us to help launch this.

I mean, there's been a lot of work that's happened over the years, as you know, as we have come together as a community, think about how collectively we are addressing issues of housing instability and the eviction crisis that has been happening over the last few years, really across the country.

And so again, as you know, from learn to earn perspective, we're really driven by a mission to think about ways in which we can improve student outcomes and think about ways in which we can identify opportunities for social and economic mobility for students and families.

And one of the things that we know to be true is how housing instability and eviction directly impact student outcomes, specifically around the areas of chronic absenteeism.

And so for us, it's really important that we think about innovative opportunities to address that.

With that being said, you can see here, I'm not going to go through everything that that's on the next two slides, but again, it's really a commitment to the many community partners, City of Dayton leadership, um, our researchers, our advocates, our residents who have dedicated time to thinking about how we address the eviction through policy, public education opportunities, national learning communities, um to talk about how we build some stability within within our communities.

And so from all of these conversations and all these learnings in 2023, there was really a growing consensus that we needed to do something to launch some evidence-based practices that we know work and have worked across the country.

And that's what led us to the pilot that we're going to talk about today, where we launched a little over a year ago in November of 2024.

And as you all know, can as you all know, the critical need, we saw real critical needs specifically after the pandemic when existing disparities that it exacerbated existing disparities in the community.

And we know that as some of the protections lifted after the pandemic, and we we saw some housing uh rising costs with housing, our families are really struggling to remain safely and stably housed.

We also know that there is a massive imbalance in the eviction court when it comes to representation.

So about 98% of our tenants self-represent, with 90% being represented of landlords.

And so that can disproportionately harm our families, especially when they're seeking assistance after being evicted, trying to get housed and trying to get and remain um attached to community services in the community.

Um with all of that being said, um, you know, we're really excited to talk about some of the results that we've seen as a result of the access to council pilot.

Um it's really an example of how we come together over around a shared outcome and work to uh create stability in the community.

So with that, I'm gonna turn it over to Emma to talk about um some eviction data and some of the things that we've seen.

The pilot.

Yeah, so we're gonna start with level setting, which is just where we're at.

Um this goes through December 2024.

So uh, we will add 2025 numbers um in as we get the data.

But you can see that we're already 2024.

We had um a huge, oh we had a huge influx of eviction filings um from the previous years.

And this is this number is about uh we're a little over 6,000, I believe, in 2025.

So it's it's in continuing to go up.

Uh these are the uh again eviction filings by zip code.

Um this is two years worth of data.

Um six and oh five are continuously our most common uh zip codes where evictions are filed, and then one seven is a close um third.

Um and then just like what Erica was discussing.

We um for tenant representation, we see about 98% are self-represented.

Able um can do another about one and a half percent, and then uh half a percent are a private lawyer.

Um and that 98% of self-representation is actually a higher amount than nation nationally, so nationally it's closer to it's you know 96 to 97.

So again, this is through 2024.

So we expect our 2025 number this to change because um we were able to fund able to represent more.

And then again, you can see that about 90 percent of property owners are represented by um legal counsel, which we know most a lot of them are LLCs and don't have a choice, but um, it still creates a power and balance.

Okay, so um wanna just remind you of the uh what our what the pilot included, the elements of the pilot.

So free legal representation and eviction actions to 125 families in the city of Dayton.