HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — The U.S. Department of the Treasury has allocated an further $11 cardinal to UniteCT, a rent and inferior assistance program, according to an announcement Tuesday from Gov. Ned Lamont.
The programme helps households that were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. It has antecedently received much than $400 cardinal successful national funds.
“As we each know, the pandemic was pugnacious connected everyone, but particularly pugnacious for our renters and homeowners,” Seila Mosquera-Bruno, the Connecticut Department of Housing commissioner, said successful the written announcement.
Since March 2021, the programme has distributed astir 80% of that archetypal funding. With the caller allocation, Mosquera-Bruno said UniteCT tin assistance much renters who are facing eviction.
More than 50,000 households person benefited from the program, with each receiving an mean of $8,366 to assistance with rent, and $1,484 to assistance with utilities, according to the announcement.
Eligible households tin person up to a twelvemonth of rental and inferior assistance.
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