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With CDC eviction moratorium expiring Aug. 1, landlords can start issuing eviction notices Share Updated: 7:39 PM EDT Jul 25, 2021 Share Updated: 7:39 PM EDT Jul 25, 2021
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Show Transcript FORTUNATELY STEVE PASCOE ’ TENANTS IN SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE WON’T BE GETTING EVICTION NOTICES WHEN THE MORATORIUM LIFTS ON AUGUST FIRST. ANY OF THEM HAVE HAD GLITCHES IN THEIR ABILITY TO MAKE PAYMENTS WE WORKED WITH. EITHER SECURED OR HELP THEM SECURE FUNDING THROUGH THE STATE OR THE TOWN THEY LIVE IN. OR, WE HAVE MADE ARRANGEMENTS THAT THEY HAVE GONE UP. JENNIFER: COMMUNITY ACONTI PROGRAMS LIKE SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE SERVICES LONG TRYING TO GET THE WORD OUT, ABOUT RENTAL ASSISTAE.NC WE ARE GETTING ONE MILLION DOLLARS PER WEEK PRETTY EASILY. JENNIFER: 200 MILLION FEDELRA DOLLARS AVAILABLE SINCE MARCH FOR RENTERS IMPACTED BY COVID. THIS IS NOT JUST ABOUT PEOPLE’S RENT. THIS IS ALSO UTILITIES, A 15 MONTH PROGRAM. WE CAN PAY THREE MONTHS FOR
By Bob Sanders - NH Business Review
• Feb 16, 2021
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Can New Hampshire spend $200 million in federal money to keep people in their homes when it wasn’t able to spend $20 million last year for the same purpose?
That’s the question being asked by state officials, housing activists, tenants and landlords while they wait – after the state’s Housing Relief Program ended on Dec. 18 – for the new federal Emergency Rental Assistance program to begin.
And no one really knows the answer.
“It depends on the universe of need that’s out there,” said Taylor Caswell, commissioner of the Department of Business and Economic Affairs and executive director of the Governor’s Office for Emergency Relief and Recovery, or GOFERR.
Renters in line for more relief
Published: 2/15/2021 7:32:28 AM
Can New Hampshire spend $200 million in federal money to keep people in their homes when it wasn’t able to spend $20 million last year for the same purpose?
That’s the question being asked by state officials, housing activists, tenants and landlords while they wait – after the state’s Housing Relief Program ended on Dec. 18 – for the new federal Emergency Rental Assistance program to begin.
And no one really knows the answer.
“It depends on the universe of need that’s out there,” said Taylor Caswell, commissioner of the Department of Business and Economic Affairs and executive director of the Governor’s Office for Emergency Relief and Recovery, or GOFERR.
Even poverty has a learning curve.
Executives with four community action programs urged U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., to relieve applicants of rigid paper documentation requirements and to deliver more discretionary money in the next COVID-19 relief package.
Betsey Andrew Parker, executive director of the Strafford County Community Action Parnership, said thereâs plenty of anxiety out there about what will be in place in 2021 when moratoriums on rental evictions and mortgage foreclosures are set to expire.
âThe underemployed people we are seeing is very significant,â Parker said. âPeople are really actually ruining their credit because they are trying to keep themselves afloat during this time. They are trying to keep themselves in the house. What happens past Jan. 1 really remains to be seen.â