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This comes as the city and state point tenants and landlords toward assistance grants of which tens of thousands have applied.
According to officials 26,850 Chicagoans have applied for $137 million in grant money. But the city has just $80 million available and expects another $100 million this fall.
Meanwhile, a survey by the Neighborhood Building Owners Alliance found that Chicago housing providers have not been paid at least $1 billion since the beginning of the pandemic.
COVID-19 and its economic fallout has had a significant impact on housing, including in Latinx communities, said Joseph Lopez, executive director of the Spanish Coalition for Housing.