Durham rental assistance program will stop accepting applications Oct. 4
Durham residents who need help paying for their rent will need to submit their applications for aid before Oct. 4, when the Durham Emergency Rental Assistance Program is temporarily paused. The aid prevents renters from being evicted if they were negatively impacted by the coronavirus pandemic
Posted — UpdatedThe pause, officials say, is because the program may not have enough funding to assist all people who apply. There are 3,000 pending applications that the Department of Social Services needs to parse through before accepting more.
The pause on applications "will remain in place until the Department of Social Services can determine that there are sufficient funds to process all of the existing applications," city officials said in a statement.
"The department has also conducted outreach with landlords in the community, with the majority of them agreeing to receive rental payments from the program," city officials said.
Social workers inside the Durham County Courthouse are available to help prevent tenants from being evicted if they have pending applications.
A second sum of money has been given to Durham city and county from the federal government for rental assistance. Local officials are still working on how to use those funds.
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