Local parishes are finally distributing federal money to landlords who have been banned from evicting tenets for more than a year.
Rental property owners in many cases haven’t been paid in more than a year and cannot evict tenants behind on their rent because of the pandemic; is finally seeing funds. Over $300 million dollars in federal money came to Louisiana to help landlords in the state struggling to pay their mortgages.
Housing advocate and Executive Director for HousingNOLA, Andreanecia Morris, is celebrating the program and what this will mean when the moratorium on kicking people out ends.
“We are starting to see checks coming to landlords who have been patient,” says Morris. “Those tenants can breathe a sign-of-relief to know that they are going to be stabilized.”
Jefferson and Orleans Parishes are already up and running with their rental assistance program. St. Tammany parish is expected to soon start their program.
The Centers for Disease and Prevention eviction moratorium extension expires June 30.