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City looks to stretch rent assistance program into March
$64.8 million already approved, state and possibly federal money to be added
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SAN ANTONIO – The City of San Antonio is on track to spend all of its $270 million in coronavirus relief funds by a Dec. 30 deadline.
One of the most high-profile uses of that money, and other funding sources, is the city’s Emergency Housing Assistance Program (EHAP), which helps struggling residents pay their rent, mortgage and other bills. As of Wednesday, $64.8 million had been approved through the program, and city staff members have plans to keep it funded into March.
Nearly half of San Antonio s COVID deaths were residents on South and West sides
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Personnel test a person at a COVID-19 drive through testing site at a CentroMed Clinic on Palo Alto Road, Monday, Nov. 16, 2020.Jerry Lara, Staff / San Antonio Express-News
Nearly half of all San Antonio residents who have died of COVID-19 lived on the city’s West and South Sides, parts of town that are overwhelmingly Hispanic, data released Thursday shows.
Since the pandemic began in March, the virus has had a disproportionate impact on the city’s poorest neighborhoods where many generations can often live in a single household, residents work in front-line jobs in retail, grocery stores and restaurants and rates of heart disease and diabetes along with rates of those without health insurance are higher than in the rest of the city.