Deadline for DeKalb tenant-landlord assistance program is Nov. 21 - Decaturish.com

DeKalb County, GA — DeKalb County has announced that tenants and landlords person until 5 p.m. connected Monday, Nov. 21 to taxable caller applications for fiscal assistance done the DeKalb Tenant-Landlord Assistance Coalition.

The deadline is based connected national deadlines. The United States Treasury Department has a deadline of Dec. 29 to obligate the Emergency Rental Assistance One reallocation assistance funds, according to a property release.

“The TLAC programme has been a tremendous occurrence helping much than 5,000 families and landlords impacted by the pandemic and the economy,” said DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond. “However, successful bid to conscionable the national deadline, we person to halt receiving caller applications and process those we person successful the pipeline.”

Currently, determination are 645 pending applications and DeKalb has $41.3 cardinal successful disposable ERA1 Reallocation assistance funds.

Since February 2021, TLAC and respective nonprofit organizations successful the region person provided implicit $61 cardinal for eligible tenants and landlords.

With the enactment of the DeKalb Board of Commissioners and successful concern with DeKalb Magistrate Court, Atlanta Legal Aid, DeKalb Dispute Resolution Center, and the DeKalb Housing Authority, TLAC is designed to supply fiscal alleviation to DeKalb renters threatened by eviction and landlords facing gross losses owed to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Visit the TLAC website for applications and instructions astatine www.dekalbstatecourt.net/renthelp. To publication an in-person appointment, email [email protected]yga.gov oregon telephone (404) 371-3201.

If determination are immoderate changes issued by the U.S. Treasury Department that affects this deadline, DeKalb County volition notify the nationalist and marque immoderate indispensable changes successful the exertion deadline.

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