Tamara Chuang
Colorado Sun
A programme that paid up to 15 months of rent connected behalf of Coloradans who struggled financially during the pandemic closes to newcomers connected Nov. 15. But it’s not implicit conscionable yet.
Some of Colorado’s stock of the national Emergency Rental Assistance programme remains unspent. Those who use by the deadline volition beryllium vetted and if they’re eligible, whitethorn person fiscal help, similar the much than 36,000 Colorado households that person already benefited, according to the state’s Department of Local Affairs, which oversees the program. Federal assistance besides remains disposable successful immoderate parts of the state, though it each volition apt tally retired successful 2023.
“The Colorado Emergency Rental Assistance Program has ever been a federally funded, temporary, short-term programme to alleviate the impacts of rental and inferior hardships passim the pandemic and recovery,” said Melissa Nereson, DOLA’s lodging betterment manager. “After the impermanent backing for this programme ends, (DOLA’s) statewide partners volition assistance Colorado tenants successful readying for lodging information 1 connected one.”
The backing came from 2 legislature alleviation acts passed during the pandemic. Colorado’s allocation was astir $690 cardinal for exigency rental assistance. That was divided betwixt DOLA and 11 cities and counties with much than 200,000 residents.
As of this week, DOLA said it has handled applications for residents statewide and received $461.9 cardinal successful national ERA funds, which includes El Paso County’s stock since the region didn’t acceptable up its ain rental assistance program. The bureau has truthful acold distributed $300 cardinal of that magnitude successful rent and inferior assistance. The full magnitude volition beryllium distributed until it runs out, Nereson said. The information is being updated and volition beryllium shared publically successful the future.