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This fall, the National Housing Law Project (NHLP) conducted a national survey of 119 legal aid and civil rights attorneys to observe how tenants are faring after the federal eviction moratorium ended in August 2021. This follow-up survey to the NHLP July 2020...
Last month, the Sacramento Housing & Redevelopment Agency celebrated a major milestone -- SHRA has helped 10,000 families to remain in their homes with their Sacramento Emergency Rental Assistance (SERA) program!
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, SHRA, in partnership with the City and the...
In September 2021, the Urban Institute published an article that examined how state and local source-of-income laws can increase the effectiveness of regional emergency rental assistance programs (ERAP) and make them more equitable by expanding participation of historically...
Yesterday, HUD published an interim final rule requiring landlords of public housing and project-based rental assistance (PBRA) properties to extend the time period before lease termination for nonpayment of rent to a minimum of 30 days after the tenant has...
This Monday, the U.S. Treasury Department published guidance for the reallocation of the $25 billion in Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) funds provided in the ERA1 program, authorized by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. That legislation...
From the Miami Herald:
Miami-Dade County officials gathered Friday to hail their success in spending $60.8 million in federal emergency rental assistance, which they said has translated to helping more than 6,000 area families stay in their homes.
The assistance helped provide a bridge as...
From CBS 8 San Diego:
Mayor Todd Gloria highlighted Monday what he is touting as the success of the city's COVID-19 Housing Stability Assistance Program and announced a proposal to establish a $5 million legal defense fund to support struggling tenants.
The housing assistance program has provided...
The Housing Initiative at Penn, NYU Furman Center and National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) published a brief profiling results from an April 2021 survey of 64 Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) Programs. The brief focuses on key program design features, challenges and changes as ERA...
As the September 30 deadline quickly approaches for when the U.S. Treasury Department must begin to recapture and reallocate funds from grantees unwilling or unable to spend down from the original Emergency Rental Assistance Program (known as ERA1), the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is...
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