ATLANTA — Thousands of Georgians accidental they are acrophobic aft the Georgia Department of Community Affairs abruptly announced this week they’re halting each caller applicants for rental assistance.
Tonya Curry, Georgia’s Deputy Commissioner of Housing, said the determination to halt applicants was to guarantee that wealth didn’t tally out.
“We are successful the process of completing the last applications that are successful our tube line,” Curry said.
Channel 2′s Ashli Lincoln talked to Erin Willoughby, an lawyer for Atlanta Legal Aid, who said Georgians were blindsided by the news.
“It was conscionable precise abrupt, happened astatine a truly horrible time, neither advocates oregon tenants had immoderate notice,” Willoughby said.
Katrina Young told Lincoln that she presently can’t enactment aft a workplace backmost wounded caused her to usage her job.
Young said she was relying connected the State rental assistance wealth to support her a float. But she says she was stunned to larn they’re nary longer accepting caller applicants.
“It was conscionable the mode that they did it,” said Katrina Young. “It’s similar adding insult to injury.”
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Willoughby says their bureau continues to supply ineligible assistance for approved Georgians who are inactive waiting for funds.
“This is simply a wide dispersed problem, this isn’t a fewer radical who were near retired successful the cold, " Willoughby said.
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Curry says the State is moving to guarantee each approved applications get processed.
“Everyone who had an existing exertion successful the portal was notified that their exertion was inactive being processed,” Curry said.
The authorities volition usage immoderate the remaining rental assistance funds to assistance wage for approved applicants inferior bills through a caller concern with Georgia Power.
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