Advocates say rent aid has been unfairly withheld from California renters.
An Alameda County judge has ordered the state housing department to pause denying applications for pandemic rental assistance after tenant advocates filed a lawsuit alleging officials have unfairly withheld aid from struggling renters.
“Over the past few months, I’ve worked with hundreds of tenants who received a denial with little to no explanation and are terrified about losing their homes,” said Patricia Mendoza, organizer at Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, one of the groups behind the suit, in a statement. The state housing department said in a statement that its program, which stopped accepting new applications at the end of March, has helped keep more than 340,000 households from losing their homes during the pandemic. It has given out an average of $11,690 per household and nearly $4 billion in total aid, according to the state’s“We are disappointed by the court’s ruling and will continue to defend California’s COVID-19 Rent Relief program,” the agency said in the statement.
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