The rent aide, administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development, started rolling out in June 2020 to help people pay rent amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Virginia homeowners who experienced financial challenges as a result of the pandemic may be eligible for a new mortgage relief program through the Commonwealth.
Governor Northam's office released the news on Thursday and said the program is to help people stay in their homes and to ease mortgage delinquencies, defaults and foreclosures due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Virginia is launching a statewide Mortgage Relief Program to help ease delinquencies, defaults and foreclosures due to the pandemic, Gov. Ralph Northam announced.