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A federal rental assistance program implemented to help struggling families during the COVID-19 pandemic is running short of money after barely more than a year, leaving renters in some parts of ...
The federal government has approved two rounds of rental assistance, worth more than $46 billion total, that is slowly making its way to renters. Additionally, the federal eviction moratorium has ...
Fresh numbers released by the Treasury Department, which oversees the Emergency Rental Assistance program, showed that the number of households receiving the benefits jumped 10% in September ...
In December 2020, the New York State Legislature passed a state moratorium on evictions. [11] In May 2021, the legislature extended the moratorium until August 31. [12]The Supreme Court struck down a provision of the state moratorium that protected people who filed a form declaring economic hardship, rather than providing evidence in court.
The main Section 8 program involves the voucher program. A voucher may be either "project-based"—where its use is limited to a specific apartment complex (public housing agencies (PHAs) may reserve up to 20% of its vouchers as such [11])—or "tenant-based", where the tenant is free to choose a unit in the private sector, is not limited to specific complexes, and may reside anywhere in the ...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury reported on Monday, Nov. 29, that state and local governments offered rental assistance to more than 521,000 renters and landlords in October through the ...
On June 29, Representative Maxine Waters presented the Emergency Housing Protections and Relief Act of 2020, which would provide $100 billion in emergency assistance for tenants and homeowners, as part of the HEROES Act. In her speech she explained, "America was facing an affordable housing crisis before this pandemic hit.
States have passed out only some of the $46.5 billion in Emergency Rental Assistance that Congress approved. This is no way to fight homelessness. To avoid housing eviction crisis, states must ...