Many applicants still in limbo with Alaska's COVID-19 rent relief program

Many applicants still in limbo with Alaska’s COVID-19 rent relief program
Jill Burke
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The sign outside the Alaska Housing Finance Corporations Family Investment center
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The Alaska Housing Finance Corporation is still in the process of paying out $242 million in rent assistance for Alaskans who applied and were screened as eligible earlier this year.
But, after passing the initial financial qualifications, many applicants have yet to hear from a housing specialist or get a guarantee of how much rent or utilities will be paid, and when.
“I just didn’t want my landlord thinking that we weren’t going to be able to pay rent or whatnot because we’re month-to-month at this point, so I didn’t want her thinking that she might as well just get a better tenant in here,” said Kayla McCarthy, a mom of three who, with her significant other, also cares for a nephew. Her youngest child is 3 weeks old.

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