Clayton County giving out $6.5M for COVID emergency rental assistance - FOX 5 Atlanta

By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team

CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. - Clayton County has $6.5 cardinal successful COVID-related rental assistance it needs to springiness retired by the extremity of December.

Wednesday is the past time of the Clayton County Board of Commissioners' Emergency Rental Assistance Program Event to effort and forestall evictions caused by the pandemic.

The lawsuit is designed to expedite the pre-qualification process and assistance applicants successful uploading their required documents to effort to beryllium eligible for the funds.

The required documents for renters are arsenic follows:  

• Valid Photo ID for applicant  
• Contact accusation including email code and telephone number)  
• Proof of income: Acceptable documents see paycheck stubs, 2020 taxes, W-2, oregon signed declaration  
• Copy of lease statement oregon written attestation from a verifiable landlord oregon absorption cause  
• Eviction notice, precocious notice, oregon dispossessory (if applicable)  
• Past owed water/sewer/gas/electric oregon Internet inferior notice(s)  
• Documentation of unemployment oregon nonaccomplishment of income since March 2020  
• Documentation of immoderate erstwhile rental assistance received since March 13, 2020  
• Other documentation of immoderate erstwhile rental assistance received since March 13, 2020

While landlords are not required to be the event, they volition request to cooperate and supply required documents to process the application.

Landlords indispensable provide:  

• Valid W-9 for payments to the proprietor of the rental property
• Must corroborate that immoderate precocious oregon rental arrears submitted for information are for Clayton County properties lone  
• Must supply a rent ledger & lease statement  
• Must supply Social Security Number (SSN) oregon Tax ID fig for the landlord oregon rental spot owner/company  
• Must corroborate whether oregon not a tenant receives a rental subsidy and the subsidy magnitude  
• Must supply interaction accusation including email and telephone fig  

For much accusation astir the ERAP event, telephone 770.347.0212 oregon 855.252.9249. To pre-register for the event, spell to the Clayton County Emergency Rental Assistance Program's website.