Landlord compensation fund now open for applications Lincoln Graves, KATU Staff
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In a special session last December, state lawmakers approved creating the fund, which allocated $150 million for landlords to recoup some costs from tenants who haven t paid rent due to pandemic hardship.
Landlords can apply to have 80% of missed rent dating back to April of 2020 recouped. They d be required to forgive the other 20%.
Some landlords aren t sure there s enough money to go around. We need more money because this has been so long for everybody, said Moe Farhoud, a landlord who owns 61 properties in Oregon.
However, Farhoud is thankful for the fund and plans to apply to recover money.
Others recounted their experiences too.
“The entire neighborhood is gone. I lost everything,” said Susannah Perillat.
“We did not get notifications,” she said.
The lack of alerts is an issue that was brought up numerous times.
“I found out on Facebook. What about the people who don’t know about that stuff,” said James Williams, who said he and his wife only had about six minutes to get out of their home.
“We made it out with the clothes on our backs and our four dogs,” he said.
“I still wake up at night, sweating, having nightmares, terrors about being trapped in a house and burning alive,” said Williams.
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Communications was supposed to be a key ingredient of Florida s vaccine rollout. Until it wasn t.
A three-month vacancy in top communications personnel only deepened the continued lack of transparency that has plagued the state s response to the pandemic since the beginning, say lawmakers and government watchdog groups who receive hundreds of calls from Floridians each day searching for answers.
“These are crucial positions. That, combined with concerns these offices are slow-walking public records requests and requests for information in general, is absolutely concerning,” said Ben Wilcox, research director at Integrity Florida, a nonpartisan and nonprofit government watchdog.
And it continues to cause delays in fulfilling public records requests, which has been a tug-of-war with the state since the beginning of the pandemic, Wilcox and other government watchdogs said.