Greensboro received word that it has been awarded nearly $9 million from the federal government for rental and utility assistance payments.
The money is part of the $25 billion in Federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program funds that were part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, which Congress passed in December 2020. Greensboro as a community of more than 200,000 was eligible to apply for its own funding and didn’t have to go through the state.
The City Council is expected to vote to accept the funds from the US Department of the Treasury at its meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 2. Once the money is accepted, the process to apply for this assistance will be announced.
The Greensboro Neighborhood Development Department is currently developing a request for qualifications for community partners to apply as program administrators for processing applications and providing funding.
Under the CARES Act, Greensboro received about $2 million to assist those whose income had been affected by the COVID-19 shutdown with rent, utilities and mortgage payments.
Neighborhood Development Department Director Stan Wilson said that the city had more flexibility with this money than with CARES Act funds. He noted that with these Treasury Department dollars people can receive up to 12 or in some cases 15 months of assistance which will be awarded in three-month increments.
With the CARES Act money, the maximum amount of rental assistance was three months.
Also, the renter doesn’t have to be behind on the rent to receive assistance, if they otherwise qualify, but assistance will be provided to pay rental arrears before the household receives assistance for future rent payments.
To qualify for the funding, people have to live in the City of Greensboro, be over 18 years of age and have a household income that is less than 80 percent of the Area Median Income. For a one-person household that corresponds to less than $37,050 per year. For a four-person household, 80 percent of the Area Median Income is $52,900.
Those eligible who have been unemployed for 90 days prior to the application and households that are at or below 50 percent of the area median income will be prioritized.
So, I can make $37,000, and still get another govt freebie? We are gettin’ there baby. A $1200 stimulus check, another $600, y mas seguir. What else can it get?
Living freebie in NC
Why don’t they give this money back to the taxpayers? This is not “free” money, despite the snow job people (the mayor) are trying to sell.
Because if we print more money the taxpayers are ultimately on the hook for it goes to silly socialist programs such as this as undercover reparations. I don’t see a dime of it going to my mortgage, but I guarantee you those of us who are vocal about it will get labeled racist and insensitive by the libtards. I’m not racist, nor insensitive, I am informed and I see through the haze of bull that put us here. If systemic racism/white privilege isn’t a myth then manatees all have wings and horns. The same individuals who scream racism, march, chant, protest, riot, demand reparations for slavery etc. all week long are the same individuals who want to talk about forgiveness on social media and at church on Sunday. Ever heard of forgive & forget? Slavery is illegal and has been for many many years now. The only persons who have any right to say anything about it are those living who have been literally enslaved during their lives. Oddly enough, those people are the ones who have forgiven the past and the people who are constantly bringing it up as a metaphorical crutch are just looking for a free ride off John & Jane Taxpayer. Uncle Ben & Aunt Jemima paid their taxes the same as anyone else and weren’t out raising all kinds of hell. Get a grip libtards.
You’re right, it isn’t free money. It is tax money, that is specifically meant to be used to enrich our nation by providing goods and services to citizens. You don’t individually get to choose how your tax dollars are spent. You pay into the pot and law and order decides how it gets used. You like law and order, right? Well, law and order say elected officials get to decide how tax dollars are spent.
You can get your money back, you simply have to forfeit enough income and assets, as well as forfeit your job and future pay, to only make 80% of what the middle-human makes in this town.
If we don’t use tax dollars for a disaster, what the hell are we using it for? What could you individually do with your $20 (that’s about what it would be if we split it evenly) that would serve your community better?
For Just Sayin, there’s so much wrong with your rhetoric. First, if you need it to go to your mortgage, you should be eligible to apply. I’m guessing you don’t need it, you just think it’s unfair to give someone that needs support some of “your money” (which isn’t actually yours, it is the cost of being a “free” American citizen). Second, slavery is not illegal – in fact the 13th amendment clearly defines where it is legal as “except as a punishment for crime”. Thus, there are approximately 25% of your fellow citizens that might have been enslaved by the criminal justice system. I’m guessing you think their lives and experiences don’t matter because they are labeled as “criminals” for the rest of their lives. Third, no one – literally no one – is still alive that was the legal enslaved property of a white man. Your rhetoric therefore suggests that since everyone is dead now, no one is allowed to be upset by it. “Those people”, as you named them, are not around to actually tell us if they forgave their slave owners, the elected officials that enacted Jim Crow era laws, or the KKK and other white supremacists that made it nearly impossible for them to succeed. You don’t know their dispositions. Fourth, Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima were fictionalized fantasies of successful Black culinary business people. While they were based on real people, their images never paid taxes nor did they signify that all Black people had access to success in the way White people did. Finally, stop using “retard” in a portmanteau of an insult at people that think differently than you. What good can possibly come out of calling someone you disagree with a retard?
Great government program for those in need. Hope through checks and balances done on all applications. Maybe have applicants actually show up for eligibility at city office to fact check who where and what they need. Crooks don.t usually show up.