MESA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) — The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors announced Thursday they person voted to supply a full of astir $9.2 cardinal for the cities of Glendale and Mesa to spell toward exigency rental assistance programs. The wealth lasts until the extremity of the year. Both Mesa and Glendale person already started utilizing these millions to assistance qualified residents debar being evicted. For some cities, the wealth came astatine the cleanable time. “Mesa and Glendale person been retired of money,” Mesa lawman manager of assemblage services Mary Brandon said.
Starting successful 2020, during the pandemic, the national authorities approved $52 cardinal successful national assistance for rental assistance successful Mesa. But Brandon said that the metropolis allotment is gone. Now? The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has reallocated an further 5 and a fractional cardinal for the metropolis to past done the year. “We cognize that the evictions and the stateless would beryllium overmuch greater if we had not received this assistance,” Brandon said.
In Mesa, the caller backing volition assistance astir 500 households screen rent and immoderate precocious fees for utilities. Individuals who marque 50% oregon little of the area’s median income oregon who person antecedently received little than six months of assistance get priority.
In Glendale, Community Action Program head Ismael Cantu says the astir $4 cardinal they’ll person helps astir 50 households a week. And Cantu says that fig is continuing to grow. “We proceed to spot caller families coming to america that person not been assisted successful the past,” helium said. “We person a important fig of radical that are waiting for assistance. We’re trying our champion to get to those.”
But what happens for Glendale and Mesa homeowners successful 2023? Cantu says helium doesn’t expect ostentation and different rising surviving costs successful Glendale to alteration overmuch by then. And Brandon says she’s already requested millions of dollars of further national rental assistance assistance for Mesa adjacent year.
For some cities, this rental assistance money, whether it’s from the U.S. Treasury oregon Maricopa County, is the quality betwixt radical keeping their homes oregon losing them. “The timing couldn’t person been better,” Cantu said. “It would person been precise hard to person a spread erstwhile we person clients that are needing our assistance connected a regular basis.”
“Mesa’s precise grateful for the accidental that we had to assistance those,” Brandon added. For immoderate Maricopa County residents wondering if they’re eligible for rental assistance resources, you tin sojourn the county’s community services section on their website.
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