EXPLAINER: NH tenants await rental aid amid eviction fears ctinsider.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ctinsider.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
GREENLAND – Pati Frew-Waters, executive director of Seacoast Family Promise, looked around the transitional housing organization for homeless families’ latest housing acquisition and said, it was “just perfect.”
Seacoast Family Promise held a ribbon-cutting for its newest housing unit at 480 Breakfast Hill Road in a former multi-family home previously owned by Bethany Church Friday afternoon. Frew Waters said the home is currently able to house five families who are taking part in Seacoast Family Promise’s programs.
Frew-Waters said the upstairs has an additional kitchen that can be put into use if a family requires isolation due to COVID-19 exposure or it can eventually be converted into additional living space for a sixth family. Currently, there are four families residing in the new facility, she said.
Federal funds available to help renters struggling amid pandemic
Households can receive up to 15 months of rental, utility help Share Updated: 11:22 AM EDT Mar 16, 2021
Households can receive up to 15 months of rental, utility help Share Updated: 11:22 AM EDT Mar 16, 2021
Hide Transcript
Show Transcript WHO’S ELIGIBLE AND HOW TO APPLY THE FEDERAL MORATORIUM ON EVICTIONS IS LIFTING AT THE END OF THIS MONTH AND HELP BLUNT A POTENTIAL WAVE OF DISPLACED TENANTS AND FAMILIES 80 MILLION DOLLARS OUT OF 180 MILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDS BEING SENT TO NEW HAMPSHIRE IS NOW AVAILABLE TO HELP THE HERE IS TO AVOID EVICTIONS OBVIOUSLY AND ALSO TO HELP NOT ONLY THE RENTERS AVOID THE DISPLACEMENT BECAUSE OF EVICTION BUT ALSO TO PROVIDE RESOURCES TO PROPERTY OWNERS MANY OF WHOM ARE BASICALLY SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS IN OUR COMMUNITIES ELIGIBLE HOUSEHOLDS MUST MEET A RANGE OF QUALIFICATIONS INCLUDING BEING DIRECTLY FINANCIALLY AFFECTED BY THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IF APPROV
Credit Courtesy of First Congregational Church
The Concord Coalition to End Homelessness is repurposing a historic church on Main Street into an emergency winter shelter and resource center.
The expansion comes as shelters across the state struggle to balance demand with strict social distancing and other COVID-19 protocols.
“Our existing shelter was built with the idea of efficiently serving as many people as possible: one big room with wall to wall beds,” says Ellen Groh, the director of the coalition. “It was the opposite of social distancing.”
The coalition says the new space, at the former First Congregational Church on 177 N. Main Street, will allow them to resume offering shelter to 40 people starting this weekend.