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SALISBURY – A $300,000 grant award will provide emergency rental assistance to Wicomico County residents.
Last week, the Wicomico County Council voted 5-0, with Councilman John Cannon and Councilwoman Nicole Acle abstaining, to accept a $300,000 grant award from the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development for emergency rental assistance.
Wicomico County Planner Jesse Drewer told officials last week the grant award would be the third round of funding the county has received from the agency.
“Unlike the other funding we have been awarded, this funding will allow us to pay for the current month’s rent along with eight months in arrears going back to April, to the pandemic’s start,” he said. “There is no income eligibility requirement, which is different than the other rounds.”