The Killeen City Council at a workshop meeting tonight is expected to discuss a grant program which might help provide rental assistance for Killeen residents during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The council is set to consider a memorandum/resolution accepting grant funds from the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs to participate in the Texas Emergency Rental Assistance Program and Texas Eviction Diversion Program.
âThe Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) is making $40 million in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG-CV) CARES Act funds available to entitlement communities in the state of Texas who have existing COVID19 rental assistance programs and have indicated an interest to participate in the Texas Emergency Rental Assistance Program (TERAP),â according to a city staff report. âThe goal of the program is to help stabilize low- and moderate-income Texas renters impacted by COVID19 through the provision of up to six months of renta
By a unanimous vote, the San Angelo city council has agreed to a rental assistance program which will help those hurt by the continuing pandemic. This will utilize using state funds to provide the rental assistance.
Dec 18, 2020
San Antonio city officials are working to extend the city s pandemic-related housing assistance program to March. City staff members told the City Council on Thursday that the state will grant San Antonio more than three-million-dollars as part of the Texas Emergency Rental Assistance Program. The city will also receive more than ten-million-dollars from the federal CARES Act. Assistant City Manager Lori Houston says the city s Emergency Housing Assistance Program should be funded into early March.
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.