The legislation that Baltimore City Council members passed and sent to Mayor Catherine Pugh’s desk in October was supposed to allocate around $13 million to the city’s new Affordable Housing Trust Fund by raising taxes on certain real estate transactions.

But it appears an error in the bill text has significantly reduced the actual sum that those tax changes would bring in for the trust. It comes down to several words.

As explained in a letter sent out last week by Public Justice Center attorney Matt Hill, who represented affordable housing advocates in deliberations on the bill, there were a couple “major technical errors” in the text that went unnoticed.

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