When the Congress passed the first civil rights bill since Reconstruction, Roy Wilkins, the executive director of the NAACP, called the watered down legislation “a small crumb.”

This afternoon, Speaker Adrienne Jones and the House of Delegates leadership announced their support for ten measures addressing critical housing issues.

That’s the whole loaf.

The two issues in the housing package that are most important to me are:

• A special fund to for rental assistance and legal aid programs; and
• A means-tested right to counsel in specific landlord-tenant cases

The right that I became aware of as a high school student. that I testified in favor of last night, is now very likely to be enacted into law.