Havlik points out, the pace is putting pressure on landlords, too.
“Evictions are always a last a last resort,” he said. “We re all concerned that the rental assistance isn t reaching residents quickly enough.”
The feds have called on states to dole out at least 65% of their federal rent assistance dollars by the end of September. Multiple state officials and advocates confirm, the U.S. Department of Treasury has said, if that deadline is not met, the feds could take their housing funds back, though officials haven’t definitively said they will.
State officials told KGW Monday, they are not worried about that possibility.
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Some corals could adapt to climate change by swapping algae that live inside their tissue for strains that are more tolerant to warmer oceans, a new study published on Monday said.
The phenomenon of bleaching – when algae is expelled from overheated tissue – makes the coral more susceptible to disease and death. The microscopic algae are the corals’ primary food source and give them their colour.
But researchers from the US found that coral could survive moderate climate change depending on the algae present, a report in the journal
Nature Climate Change found.
Previous studies have shown that algae could return to bleached coral within weeks if conditions improved, which in turn could make coral more tolerant to environmental changes.
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The elusive vocals of a potential namesake of Elvis, the King of Rock, may help marine experts understand how certain sea creatures communicate with each other. The recording of the haunting sounds – those of an orca, or killer whale – was recently captured along the False Bay coast.
A shrill squeal with an overlapping squeak towards the end. Followed by a more emphatic squeal and another overlapping squeak.
These sounds, documented in the sea off Fish Hoek in Cape Town on 26 January, mark a first for South Africa – the first time a killer whale’s vocalisations have been recorded in the country.