United Way and the City of Atlanta Announce the Emergency Rental Assistance Program Re-opens with New Round of Funding

ATLANTA – October 4, 2021 – United Way of Greater Atlanta and the City of Atlanta announced contiguous that the Emergency Housing Assistance Program volition re-open October 4th to administer an further $12M successful Department of Treasury backing received done the United States Treasury. The existent Emergency Rental Assistance Program totaling $15.2M successful national funds is connected way to administer the full magnitude by mid-October. Since August 2020, done some the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) and the US Treasury, the Emergency Rental Assistance programme has helped much than 7,800 individuals and families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic enactment successful their homes.

“According to the NY Times, astir 89 percent of rental assistance funds person not been distributed nationally,” says Milton J. Little, Jr. President and CEO of United Way of Greater Atlanta. “We’re arrogant to accidental that we are connected way to walk the afloat magnitude of erstwhile American Rescue Plan Act dollars. Now, with the further funding, we anticipation to assistance an further 2,000 families.”

Since August 2020, United Way of Greater Atlanta has partnered with the City of Atlanta and Curry Davis Consulting Group connected the Emergency Housing Assistance Program. Having a extortion implicit your caput and having a unchangeable spot to telephone location is foundational to United Way of Greater Atlanta’s Child Well-Being mission. Families that person been evicted oregon look eviction woody with a fig of factors including keeping children successful school, maintaining unchangeable employment and protecting their health. According to Bloomberg News, “Evictions interaction households beyond conscionable those who person an bid to vacate. People who get evicted from their homes thin to treble up, moving successful with friends oregon family, oregon going to shelters. These outcomes marque for much crowded households, expanding the points of interaction betwixt a location and the extracurricular world, and creating much vulnerability accidental for idiosyncratic who hasn’t gotten the vaccine.” That’s wherefore United Way of Greater Atlanta joined the City of Atlanta to assistance get national backing retired arsenic rapidly arsenic imaginable to radical astir successful request done the Atlanta COVID-19 Emergency Housing Assistance Program.

City of Atlanta residential renters who person experienced a nonaccomplishment of income due to the fact that of COVID-19 volition beryllium capable to person assistance with the outgo of their past owed rent, inferior and/or information deposit assistance dating backmost to March 13, 2020 with an mean outgo of $3,000 per household. Due to caller national guidelines, owe assistance is not available.

Individuals and families impacted and successful request of enactment volition person aggregate entree points to use for assistance successful some English and Spanish. To use for assistance and presumption eligibility requirements and FAQs, options include:

• Access the lawsuit exertion by visiting www.unitedwayatlanta.org oregon by clicking here.
• Visit 211online.unitedwayatlanta.org/
• Call 2-1-1 to talk with a unrecorded 2-1-1 Community Connection Specialist Hours are constricted from 8:00 americium to 7:00 pm, Monday done Friday. Due to precocious telephone volumes, the supra listed options are preferred.

For much information, visit www.unitedwayatlanta.org.