Saint Regis Mohawk Launches Homeowners Assistance - Indian Gaming

AKWEASNE, NY – The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe (SRMT) announced a caller tribal programme to assistance homeowners dealing with fiscal hardships owed to the COVID-19 pandemic. Overseen by the SRMT Community & Family Services Division, the caller Homeowners Assistance Fund (HAF) Program was made imaginable by the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).

“The American Rescue Plan Act contained $9.961 cardinal to found a nationwide Homeowners Assistance Fund,” said Jennifer Brown, SRMT Community & Family Services Office Manager. “On June 27, 2022, the U.S. Department of Treasury awarded the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe backing to make its ain Homeowners Assistance Fund Program.” 

The tribe’s Homeowners Assistance Fund Program is intended to assistance tribal homeowners who whitethorn person experienced a fiscal hardship after Jan. 21, 2020, specified arsenic owe delinquencies and defaults, foreclosures, nonaccomplishment of utilities oregon location vigor services, and/or displacement. The HAF Program tin assistance by assisting with making payments for mortgages, homeowner’s insurance, utilities, location repairs, and different eligible expenses. 

The HAF Program tin besides supply method assistance to assistance tribal homeowners find their champion options to code their housing-related hardship, which whitethorn entail impermanent fiscal relief. If a homeowner is incapable to marque their regular owe payments, different options whitethorn see a location indebtedness modification to little their involvement complaint oregon lengthening the outgo terms.

“All HAF programs are encouraged to integrate counseling services into their programs to assistance idiosyncratic homeowners find the champion solution for their needs,” said Alexandra David, Homeowners Assistance Fund Program Manager. “Housing counselors are knowledgeable connected options that are disposable and tin assistance measure fiscal situations holistically, often providing enactment oregon referrals to different resources.”

To beryllium eligible for assistance from the tribe’s HAF Program, individuals indispensable beryllium enrolled tribal members oregon beryllium eligible for enrollment, ain their home, reside wrong the tribe’s 15-mi. work country successful the United States, and were financially impacted by COVID-19 aft Jan. 21, 2020.