rent relief

While the number of eviction cases heard in courts has increased, the number of people displaced has not reached the level housing services providers expected.

The mayor’s office urged residents to call the 211 helpline to start an application.

“Even though the funding is on pause, the legal protections remain for folks."

So far, neither the Biden administration nor leaders in Congress have said that they plan to send more rent relief funding to New York.

New York is one of just a handful of states that have exhausted the rent relief funding allocated to them by the federal government.

“We’re hopeful to get another $500 million,” Hochul told reporters in Johnson City on Monday.

“I think it is starting to get back on track, and part of that, the fact that we can get specific, county-specific, data on our applications is really going to help us help people.”

I want to kind of let governor-to-be Hochul kind of get her sea legs and we'll go from there.”

Residents eligible for the city’s rental assistance program must have experienced a COVID-19-related hardship, such as a loss of income or employment since March 2020 and earn either equal to or less than 50 percent of the Area Median Income.

As of June, Pennsylvania’s Department of Human Services said it had distributed $133 million in Emergency Rental Assistance program money to more than 30,500 households across the state.