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This comes as rental costs have spiked in the region and the majority of eviction moratoriums enacted at the beginning of the pandemic have expired.
“What do I do now? It's three grand,” Mendoza said referring to the amount of money she was supposed to receive. “I can't pay like three grand just like that.”Patty Mendoza, right, eats breakfast with her children, Alejandra Mendoza and Erik Martinez, at their Imperial Beach apartment, March 23, 2021.
Across California, local governments had a couple options for how they chose to run their ERA programs: the state’s department of Housing and Community Development could administer it on their behalf, the local entity could take their portion of funds for ERA and run it entirely on its own, or they could opt for a hybrid program.in the first round of funding from both the state and federal governments.
These measures prohibited landlords from evicting tenants based on nonpayment of rent, including those who had a processing application for an ERA program — however, those protections preempted any set on a county level prior to its expiration on June 30. , Gilberto Vera. “Once the programs knew that they weren't getting any more funds or that the money they got wasn't gonna cover the applications, they started notifying tenants that they were not gonna pay any rental assistance.”and tenants that they are still “actively applying” to the federal government for money to cover rental assistance for these months.Given the regulations on the state’s cashflow program, the months of April through June were not guaranteed for ERA coverage.
When tenants who applied to the program were able to get ahold of someone regarding their application, they said the case worker on the other end did not make it clear that their aid was contingent on money the county did not have yet.