Posted on 06/22/2021 7:57:56 AM PDT by bgill
With several eviction protections expiring soon, thousands of applicants are still waiting to be approved for help through Travis County’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP).
As of June 17, 15 applications had reached the “final review” stage, and payment is currently pending for seven of those applicants, according to a Travis County spokesperson.
More than 2,500 people applied through a new application portal in mid-April, after the county received $10.7 million dollars in federal funding to be used for rental assistance.
Prior to the launch of this new portal, the county’s Health and Human Services division had already received thousands more online and paper applications for rental and utility assistance through their existing program.
“Our waitlists are very, very long. That is because we are understaffed and we have an ancient data management system,” the county’s Family Support Services division director, Kirsten Siegfried, told County Commissioners in last week’s meeting. “Our contractors are having a hard time getting those checks out the door.”
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At this point, I’d say it’s a mistake to add money to your mortgage in order to pay off. Unless you’re close to payoff and intend to sell soon.
And folks want to know why Blackrock and all the other hedge funds are buying up every house they can and turning them into rentals.
Nothing like having the taxpayer and that guaranteed government check increase those corporate profits and pad the shareholder bank accounts.
How much of the money is being spent on the bureaucrats who are prolonging these “reviews”
It sounds like they hired a contractor for this—probably a relative of the mayor....
That’s the big question.
In Phoenix, we have this program. It’s run by bleeding heart libs who have no idea what the impact is on businesses.
They are probably 8 months behind by now in paying out rent money which causes small and large property owners real problems. Also, the program ran out of money the first time it was set up. When it was financed again months later, they were still trying to pay off the first time applicants.
They pay only 2 months rent per application. So you can get 8 months behind, finally get 2 months rent, still be 6 months behind, have to apply again, and wait 2 months to get 2 more months. In other words, no one will ever catch up on rent.
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