Utah said it won't take any more applications for the Emergency Rental Assistance program. Here's what other states have done to support renters.
Apartments in St. George on Wednesday May 3, 2023. Utah said it won't take any more applications for the Emergency Rental Assistance program.The following article was funded with support from The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune.
“We always knew that federal Emergency Rental Assistance would be temporary,” said Christina Davis, spokesperson for the Utah Department of Workforce Services that administered the federal assistance. “And it served a very important role in helping individuals and families to maintain stable housing during the pandemic.”It’s the question on the minds of many watching. While the pandemic is subsiding, housing insecurity still runs rampant.
“We used to operate a rental bank program many years ago and because of state budget cuts, we had to end the program,” said Leigh Shields-Church, a social worker with the Connecticut Department of Housing. The key to getting the extra allocation and the state funding was a strong push to keep offering services to vulnerable residents, said Marina Marmolejo, director of Housing Innovation at the Connecticut Department of Housing.
Janesch focused on homelessness prevention for the last six years. Prior to the pandemic, though, he said his organization hit upon the need for eviction prevention. Staff experimented with funding needs, by raising private dollars and then testing out spending effectiveness. The new Keep King County House program builds off the old ERA infrastructure but includes new sources of funding. Like Connecticut, the county was able to absorb ERA funds that went unspent by other locations and were reallocated to them. But King County also added new funding, including by increasing county recording fees to be redirected to the eviction prevention programs. For the coming year, it will put a total of $12 million into the new program.
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