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The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) released a new report that summarizes emergency rental assistance (ERA) spending trends, projects when state and large local grantees may exhaust their ERA1 and ERA2 funds, and estimates the amount of funding the U.S. Department of the Treasury (...
The Terner Center released a report analyzing the geography of Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) disbursement and where local capacity gaps may be hindering the ERA Take-Up Rate, a measure of the number of ERA payments divided by the number of very low-income renter households (i.e....
Last week the U.S. Treasury Department published updated guidance for the reallocation of unspent funds from the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP). CLPHA continues to be concerned about the challenges assisted households are experiencing when attempting to access emergency...
From a letter from Saint Paul Public Housing Agency Executive Director Jon Gutzmann:
Since the pandemic began, many households have become delinquent in their rent payments. The St. Paul Public Housing Agency (PHA) recognized this right away and assembled a team of staff members to reach out...
To reduce burdensome documentation barriers that have made it difficult for many renters to access emergency rental assistance, the Department of the Treasury introduced fact-specific proxy into its guidance in May 2021, which allows additional methods to verify income eligibility. Specifically,...
From KPBS San Diego:
The city of San Diego and the San Diego Housing Commission have been awarded $8.3 million from the federal government to support the COVID-19 Housing Stability Assistance Program, it was announced Wednesday.
The funds were reallocated from other jurisdictions across the...
The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) and Housing Initiative at Penn published new research providing a preliminary analysis of key program-design features and outcomes of Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) programs. Researchers analyzed program features for 495 ERA programs recorded in...
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...