JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The City of Jacksonville’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program has distributed implicit $62.6 cardinal of national funds since March 2021.
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Those funds person been utilized for rent and inferior assistance to Duval County residents incapable to wage rent and utilities owed to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The City of Jacksonville has besides received an further $3.3 cardinal of national funds for rental assistance.
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The rental and inferior assistance programme volition reopen the exertion portal starting Wednesday, Nov. 30, astatine 8 a.m. The exertion portal volition adjacent to caller applications Monday, Dec. 5, astatine 5 p.m.
The assistance programme volition beryllium disposable to radical to screen up to 12 months of past owed rent and inferior payments for rental households negatively impacted by COVID-19.
Federal guidelines necessitate qualifying persons and families to person an income beneath 80% of the country median income. The income requirements are arsenic follows:
| 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 must 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
- any 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.
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Residents tin use online opening Wednesday, Nov. 30, astatine 8 a.m. The online exertion is disposable by clicking here.
Common Questions
Can much than 1 household subordinate apply?
Only 1 tenant exertion tin beryllium filed per residential rental property. It is truthful recommended tenants of 1 residential rental spot coordinate with their household members to guarantee lone 1 specified exertion is filed. Applications that are recovered to beryllium duplicative volition beryllium denied arsenic a duplicate.
Can a homeowner get owe assistance with this program?
No. Assistance done this programme is lone disposable to renters with a superior code successful Duval County.
Is this programme disposable for residents who unrecorded extracurricular of Duval County?
No. Only residents of Duval County (including the Beaches and Town of Baldwin) tin person assistance from the City of Jacksonville’s ERAP. Many different counties are establishing their ain ERA programs.
Does the rental spot person to beryllium the renter’s superior residence?
Yes. The rental spot indispensable beryllium the tenant’s superior residence and indispensable beryllium successful Duval County. Proof of superior residency whitethorn beryllium required.
Does the lease person to beryllium successful the applicant’s name?
Yes. The lease indispensable beryllium successful the superior applicant’s name, and the applicant indispensable beryllium liable for paying a information oregon the afloat magnitude of the rent.
What if I americium not eligible for the program?
If you are not eligible for the program, we promote you to interaction United Way 211 (dial 2-1-1 oregon 904-632-0600) for accusation connected section programs disposable to assistance residents.
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