Travis County says it will prioritize getting rent payments to people currently facing eviction. County staff said that many people who have not needed help paying for housing in the past are now showing up in the county’s applicant pool.
Following what one official described as an"absolute deluge" of interest, Travis County says it has stopped taking applications for a program to help people make their rent and mortgage payments.
“That’s an extremely large number of applications to have received in such an extremely short period of time,” Kirsten Siegfried, division director of Travis County Health and Human Services, told county commissioners. “This is a brand-new environment.” The rush of applications for the county's program comes amid a dearth of other government housing aid; while Texas, both the state and the City of Austin have closed rent assistance programs after running out of money earlier this year.
“I think what is really happening here is a housing crisis that has been artificially suppressed with the various eviction moratoria for the last two years,” Siegfried said.
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