The Biden Administration continues to work with and listen to rental assistance administrators, tenant advocates, landlords, and other stakeholders to prevent evictions and provide the clearest possible guidance to state and local programs to improve the speed and effectiveness with which they deliver assistance to tenants, landlords, and utility providers. Treasury Announces New Guidance to Encourage States and Localities to Expedite Relief, Including Through Efficient Self-Attestation Treasury data also show that ERA is reaching the lowest income tenants – over 60 percent of the households served earn no more than 30 percent of area median income. State and local agencies have provided approximately one million assistance payments to benefit households at-risk of eviction, and have spent more than $5.1 billion in ERA funding. Last month, 341,000 households received rental and utilities assistance, up from 293,000 in June and 157,000 in May. Departments of Agriculture (USDA), Health and Human Services (HHS), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Veterans Affairs (VA) are taking additional action to protect and support vulnerable renter households.Īdditionally, the Treasury Department is releasing new data on ERA spending in July. In addition to the enhancements of the Emergency Rental Assistance program, the Administration continues to take an all of government approach to protect families at-risk of eviction. Most notably, today Treasury is providing even more explicit permission for grantees to utilize self-attestation without further documentation in order to speed the delivery of assistance to households in need during the public health emergency. As the President has made clear, no state or locality should delay distributing resources that have been provided by Congress to meet families’ critical needs and prevent the tragedy of unnecessary eviction. Today, the Biden Administration is announcing new actions to help protect vulnerable tenants and landlords, including steps the Treasury Department is taking to strengthen existing guidance and implement new policies to ensure that state and local grantees can further accelerate Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) to aid the struggling landlords and renters most at risk of eviction.įor months, the Administration has worked to speed up state and local grantees’ delivery of ERA and help keep American families stably housed. Get Involved Show submenu for “Get Involved””.The White House Show submenu for “The White House””.Office of the United States Trade Representative.Office of Science and Technology Policy.Executive Offices Show submenu for “Executive Offices””.Administration Show submenu for “Administration””.
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