Residents whose income is equivalent to or less than 60 percent of the area median income will be eligible for assistance.
have long since expired, and other pandemic-era aid programs are winding down.
Being a single mother on short-term disability as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits have decreased has left her with few options, she said. Murphy is one of the many residents who need help after being set back by expensive medical or utility bills, car repairs or an unexpected funeral for a family member, according to Mary Hunter, director of housing counseling at the Housing Initiative Partnership, a private affordable housing developer.
“If I try to raise the rents $120 month, what [are] the people in the council and all the people in the newspapers and everything going to say?” he said during the meeting. “I’m just saying sometimes there’s forces at work, which are kind of beyond a landlord’s control. I wish you somehow take that into account in your programs.”
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