Researchers suggest fiscal policies like the emergency rental assistance program are also a tool for improving public health.

The federal government's emergency rental assistance program helped prevent more than one million evictions last year. An estimated 1.36 million renters avoided an eviction filing in 2021 as a result ...

Denish Melwani, 58, of Woodstock and Shaleen Mahtani, 56, of Paramus, N.J., are accused of filing an application containing false information with the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance to ...

Federal rental assistance distributed during the COVID-19 pandemic did far more than help people stay in their homes. It also ...

In a letter sent to local public housing authorities on March 6, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that a $5 billion pot of federal money set aside to prevent thousands ...

Federal Emergency Rental Assistance dollars from the COVID-era must be spent by the end of September. Columbus and county renters received over $200 million in assistance since 2021. Now, Columbus is ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Before the pandemic hit, Jacqueline Bartley, ...

Two siblings, Denesh Melwani & Shaleen Mahtani, have been indicted in Albany County for reportedly stealing $90,000 in ERAP ...

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