Polk County landlords get financial help for tenants past-due due to COVID-19
Ken Suarez reports
LAKELAND, Fla. - Help is on the way for landlords whose tenants have not paid rent because of COVID-19. Polk County just got $9 million in federal money to throw them a lifeline.
Many tenants have fallen behind on their rent because they have lost their jobs or had their hours cut due to the pandemic.
In Polk County alone, an estimated 20,000 renters are in arrears. As a result, life has been a struggle for many landlords as well. It puts them in debt, and it puts me in debt, because if they don’t have any monies from the rents, I don’t receive any management fees, D.J. Delgado told FOX 13.