Show us with your support. No more rent relief available for Texas renters or landlords - KHOU But The Texas Tribune interviewed tenants from across the state who were approved for federal rental assistance and were evicted anyway. At the moment, Gates is bouncing back and forth between her fathers house and a friends while she appeals her eviction in an attempt to strike it from her record and make it easier for her to find a new place. Scott had landed a new job as a dietician at a local hospital when she returned from work one afternoon in early October to find most of her belongings spread out on the lawn and the locks changed. What do I do? But none of that recovered money is helping tenants ousted from their homes, said Julia Ordua, Southeast Texas regional director for Texas Housers, a nonprofit low-income housing advocacy group. Click Here For Information about Accepting Payments. By clicking the plus sign by one of the listed programs, the page will expand and provide the full details of that program. Houston-Harris County Emergency Rental Assistance Program And only 250 payments have been sent. <>/Metadata 393 0 R/ViewerPreferences 394 0 R>>
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Effectiveness of. Meanwhile, Scott is trying to rebuild her life. Its peoples lives at stake here, because when evictions happen, their lives are torn apart. The money was considered crucial to prevent a wave of tenants losing their homes as eviction bans expired; in recent months, three Texas metro areas Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth have seen some of the highest eviction case filings in the country among the 31 cities tracked by Eviction Lab, a research center based at Princeton University that tracks eviction filings. from 8 AM - 9 PM ET. TXHAF is administered by TDHCA with funding provided under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Payments have been approved for more than 2,200 additional households, the agency dashboard indicated Friday. Stephanie Gates rental assistance check initially went to the wrong address and reached her landlord less than two weeks after she was evicted from her Round Rock home in January. You can even upload documents for an attorney to review. Weve had to handhold our residents through these various processes, obtaining the correct documentation, helping them with scanning, Mattingly was told by one landlord. Departments Emergency Rental Assistance Program. Applications to the relief program can be submitted beginning March 14. Cities and counties that operate local rental assistance programs have $368 million. In her case, the check arrived in time but went to the wrong place. The federal government and the state of Texas both had people like Scott and her family in mind when they hurriedly created a safety net for struggling renters amid the COVID-19 pandemic.