Duval County to unfastened up applications for $3M successful national rental assistance backing this week

DUVAL COUNTY; Fla. – Duval County residents tin commencement applying for rent oregon inferior measure assistance starting Wednesday. This is simply a portion of a programme done the metropolis of Jacksonville to assistance residents who mislaid income due to the fact that of the COVID-19 pandemic. The programme has much than $3 cardinal near to assistance radical successful need.

A household that is eligible for this assistance whitethorn person wealth for up to a combined 12 months of past-due rent and/or inferior bills. The national assistance programme has distributed much than $62 cardinal since March 2021.

Related: Duval County to unfastened up applications for $3M successful national rental assistance backing this week

Who qualifies is somewhat complicated. Here is simply a breakdown of who tin get money.

How bash I qualify?

Federal guidelines necessitate qualifying individuals and families to person an income that falls beneath 80% of the (AMI). Priority indispensable beryllium provided to households that person incomes astatine oregon beneath 50% country median income oregon person 1 oregon much members who person been unemployed for astatine slightest 90 days. The income requirements are arsenic follows:

How you suffice for rental assistance (WJXT)

In summation to the income prerequisite, applicants indispensable beryllium a nonmigratory of Duval County (this includes the Beaches and the Town of Baldwin) and conscionable each 3 of these qualifications:

  • At slightest 1 idiosyncratic successful the location indispensable beryllium connected unemployment oregon saw a nonaccomplishment of income during the pandemic

  • You tin show a hazard of experiencing homelessness oregon lodging instability, including past-due rent oregon unsafe surviving conditions

  • A household income little than 80% of the country median income, which is $46,850 for a azygous person.

The metropolis says anyone not eligible should interaction United Way for accusation connected different section rental assistance programs.

Applications volition beryllium accepted starting astatine 8 a.m. connected Wednesday and volition adjacent astatine 5 p.m. connected Dec. 5. You tin entree the exertion astatine coj.net/erap oregon substance APPLY to 211904 to entree the application.

That exertion volition enactment unfastened until Monday, Dec. 5 astatine 5 p.m.

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