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She Was Sued Over Rent She Didn’t Owe. It Took Seven Court Dates to Prove She Was Right. <[link removed]> In one of the country’s richest cities, the public housing authority aggressively sued its residents, filing complaints for amounts as little as $5. Some residents were sued over the authority’s own mistakes. by Danielle Ohl, Capital Gazette, and Talia Buford and Beena Raghavendran, ProPublica

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