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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...
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...
On September 10, 2021, the House Financial Services Committee (HFSC) held a virtual hearing entitled “Protecting Renters During the Pandemic: Reviewing Reforms to Expedite Emergency Rental Assistance.” After months of criticism from policymakers and housing advocates, and in the wake of the...
Distributing Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program funds and improving the administration of Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHV) are critical issues facing public housing authorities focused on eviction prevention efforts after the federal moratorium on evictions ended on August 26 with a 6-3...
From WAVY 10 News:
On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new eviction moratorium that would last until Oct. 3.
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That includes Norfolk, where Nealy Gihan works with the Norfolk Redevelopment Housing Authority.
They help folks in Section 8 housing through their...
Janet Abrahams, executive director of the Housing Authority of Baltimore City and Angela Cameron, HABC vice president joined WEAA Baltimore Radio's Two Way Talk to discuss a new campaign with their local United Way that will help renters who have been affected by the coronavirus...
From the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs' press release:
The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) today highlighted that it has reached the milestone of disbursing more than $200 million in federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) funds throughout the state. More...
From the Urban Institute:
In follow up to the recently updated Emergency Rental Assistance Program tool, Urban Institute experts are offering technical assistance in using the tool to target outreach or dissemination of funds, as well as designing and implementing equity-centered rental...