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Pennsylvania's COVID rent relief program doomed from the start

A Spotlight PA review of thousands of emails PA reveals the program was doomed to fail from the start. ....

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The inside story of how Pennsylvania failed to deliver millions in coronavirus rent relief

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February 16, 2021 11 min read
Unlike other tenants, Michael Salemno, 44, of Reading, had a landlord willing to work with him to apply for the state s first batch of rent relief. But they never heard anything back. (Elizabeth Robertson/Philadelphia Inquirer)
This article is shared with LebTown by content partner Spotlight PA.
By Charlotte Keith of Spotlight PA
HARRISBURG It was late August, just past noon, and time was running out.
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Bryce Maretzki was in charge of a $150 million effort to keep Pennsylvania’s most vulnerable tenants in their homes.
By now, the problems he had predicted, weeks earlier, were undeniable. There was too much red tape. The money was barely moving. Phone calls and emails from desperate tenants were flooding in and the program that was meant to save them was a mess. ....

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The inside story of how Pennsylvania failed to deliver millions in coronavirus rent relief

The inside story of how Pennsylvania failed to deliver millions in coronavirus rent relief
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HARRISBURG It was late August, just past noon, and time was running out.
Bryce Maretzki was in charge of a $150 million effort to keep Pennsylvania’s most vulnerable tenants in their homes.
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By now, the problems he had predicted, weeks earlier, were undeniable. There was too much red tape. The money was barely moving. Phone calls and emails from desperate tenants were flooding in and the program that was meant to save them was a mess.
It was a mess that Maretzki, a senior official at the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, had to make the best of even as he vented to a colleague, that afternoon, that the program “continues to reveal new levels of dysfunction … like that long-lost alcoholic uncle.” ....

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Gow Pa. failed to deliver millions in coronavirus rent relief

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Charlotte Keith, Spotlight PAFebruary 15, 2021
Unlike other tenants, Michael Salemno, 44, of Reading, Pa., had a landlord willing to work with him to apply for the state s first batch of rent relief. But they never heard back. (Elizabeth Robertson/Philadelphia Inquirer)
This story originally appeared on Spotlight PA.

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It was late August, just past noon, and time was running out.
Bryce Maretzki was in charge of a $150 million effort to keep Pennsylvania’s most vulnerable tenants in their homes. ....

Montgomery County , United States , Lancaster County , Delaware County , South Carolina , Allegheny County , Leroy Santos , Bryce Maretzki , Tom Wolf , Michael Salemno , Michelle Smith , Patrick Cicero , Lyndsay Kensinger , Dan Zampogna , Lisa Schaefer , Kyle Webster , Brian Kelly , Robin Wiessmann , Housing Committee , Senate Republicans , Department Of Labor , Department Of Human Services , Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency , Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network , Commissioners Association Of Pennsylvania , Senate Urban Affairs ,

Rent Relief Didn't Get To Those Who Needed It. Will Pennsylvania Get It Right The Second Time?

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When DaJuan Davis learned that his application for rent relief was denied, exposing him and his son to another potential eviction, he felt “crushed.”

I felt so dejected. It took a lot of energy from me, said Davis, 45, in a January interview. The sometime commercial driver and convenience store worker, now employed by McDonald’s, sat on his living room couch, while his 13-year-old son attended virtual school in an adjacent bedroom.
He said he’s rented from Monroeville-based Arbors Management for 11 years. He’d weathered eviction filings, which followed a change of employment and gap in pay, in 2019.
His best hope of avoiding another eviction filing, following his July 8 loss of a job, had seemed to be Pennsylvania’s CARES Rent Relief Program. On July 10, he and the property manager filled out forms seeking six months of state help paying the $610-a-month rent for his Penn Hills apartment. ....

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