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Late last week, the Department of the Treasury released a new set of FAQs on the emergency rental assistance (ERA) program, along with a fact sheet to help grantees expedite funds, provide housing stability services, and prevent evictions. This most recent version of FAQs...
On Friday May 7, the Biden administration released updates for the Treasury Department Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program. The updates are specific to the second round of funds or ERA2 that provides up to $21.55 billion under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which was enacted on March...
Next week, CLPHA will be participating in a PIH industry call that will feature a representative from the Department of Treasury to discuss the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP). ERAP received $25 billion in the pandemic relief package enacted in late 2020 and an...
Join CLPHA’s ERA Working Group this Friday March 19 at 2:00 p.m. ET for a conversation with members on best practices for administering assistance and to discuss important areas of concern around the release of the new Treasury FAQs. We will also hear from fellow members on how they...

Media Contact:
David Greer, CLPHA
dgreer@clpha.org
(202) 550-1381
For Immediate Release
March 11, 2021
(Washington, D.C.) March 11, 2021 – Sunia Zaterman, executive director of the Council of Large Public...

The Effect of COVID-19 on Household Income Among HCV Households. A new report in Cityscape uses HUD administrative data to look at the volume of interim recertification requests at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. According to the report, 553,500 households...
Over $41 Billion Provided for Housing Programs
On March 6, the U.S. Senate passed H.R. 1319, an unprecedented, far-reaching, $1.9 trillion emergency funding and authorization recovery legislation providing desperately needed relief for people impacted by the pandemic, entitled the “...

Media Contact:
David Greer, CLPHA
dgreer@clpha.org
(202) 550-1381
For Immediate Release
March 4, 2021
(Washington, D.C.) March 4, 2021 – Sunia...

Media Contact:
David Greer, CLPHA
dgreer@clpha.org
(202) 550-1381
For Immediate Release
February 27, 2021
(Washington, D.C.) February 27, 2021 – ...
Yesterday, February 22, 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released the much anticipated updated FAQs for the $25 billion in Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) provided for in the 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act. We are pleased to see that many of the ...