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Federal Aid to Renters Moves Slowly, Leaving Many at Risk Jason DeParle © Nora Williams for The New York Times Antonette Worke is awaiting news on whether she will receive assistance for $5,000 in overdue rent in Charleston, S.C. WASHINGTON Four months after Congress approved tens of billions of dollars in emergency rental aid, only a small portion has reached landlords and tenants, and in many places it is impossible even to file an application. The program requires hundreds of state and local governments to devise and carry out their own plans, and some have been slow to begin. But the pace is hindered mostly by the sheer complexity of the task: starting a huge pop-up program that reaches millions of tenants, verifies their debts and wins over landlords whose interests are not always the same as their renters’.

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