Duval County to open up applications for $3M in federal rental assistance funding this week - WJXT News4JAX

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The City of Jacksonville announced Monday that its Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) has astir $3 cardinal near to assistance Duval County residents who person been incapable to wage their rent and/or utilities owed to a nonaccomplishment of income related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Applications volition beryllium accepted starting astatine 8 a.m. connected Wednesday and volition adjacent astatine 5 p.m. connected Dec. 5.

An eligible household whitethorn person assistance for rent and/or utilities including up to a combined 12 months of past-due rent and/or utilities. Since March 2021, the City of Jacksonville’s ERAP has distributed implicit $62.6 cardinal of national funds to supply rent and inferior assistance to Duval County renter-household residents

Who qualifies is somewhat complicated, but present is simply a breakdown of who tin get money.

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

Household size50% Total AMI80% Total AMI

One person	$29,300	$46,850
Two people	$33,450	$53,550
Three people	$37,650	$60,250
Four people	$41,800	$66,900
Five people	$45,150	$72,300
Six people	$48,500	$77,650
Seven people	$51,850	$83,000
Eight people	$55,200	$88,350

In summation to the income prerequisite, applicants indispensable conscionable the pursuing criteria:

• A nonmigratory of Duval County (this includes the Beaches and the Town of Baldwin)

• Part of an “Eligible household” arsenic defined by the Act arsenic follows:

An “Eligible household” indispensable see 1 oregon much individuals who are obligated to wage rent connected a residential dwelling successful Duval County and indispensable besides show each 3 criteria below:

1. One oregon much individuals wrong the household has:

• qualified for unemployment benefits, or

• experienced a simplification successful household income, incurred important costs, oregon experienced different fiscal hardship due, straight oregon indirectly, to COVID-19 and tin attest to specified successful writing;

2. One oregon much individuals wrong the household tin show a hazard of experiencing homelessness oregon lodging instability, which whitethorn include:

• a past owed inferior oregon rent announcement oregon eviction notice;

• unsafe oregon unhealthy surviving conditions; or

• immoderate different grounds of specified risk, arsenic determined by the City; and

3. The household has a household income that is not much than 80% of the country median income (AMI) for the household.

For much information, you tin visit the city’s website.

The metropolis says anyone not eligible should interaction United Way for accusation connected different section rental assistance programs. You tin entree the exertion astatine coj.net/erap oregon substance APPLY to 211904 to entree the application.

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