Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania speaks at a news conference in Harrisburg. FILE | APÂ
The $900 billion in COVID relief signed into law by President Donald Trump on Sunday is needed but doesn t go nearly far enough, Gov. Tom Wolf said Monday.
âMore needs to be done to truly foster a sustained economic recovery, Wolf said. The people and businesses hit hardest by this pandemic continue to struggle â including people who are unemployed, restaurant and bar owners and frontline workers. State and local governments are also desperately in need of aid to ensure that we can continue to provide the services our residents need.
Hotels Became Shelters and Permanent Housing
The most basic and impactful public-health response to the spread of Covid-19 was an order to stay at home. But that did nothing for people experiencing homelessness. And with a deadly virus being transmitted by people in close proximity, traditional homeless shelters with large groups of people in close quarters, did not present a good solution. Cities around the country began buying up hotel rooms to help vulnerable people quarantine. And some of those programs took a longer-term view.
In April, the city of Missoula, Montana, purchased a small motel near its downtown, with the goal of using its rooms as temporary emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness and, eventually, turning it into permanent affordable housing. Later, California embarked on a $600 million program called Project Homekey, to buy up old hotels and motels around the state and create permanent housing for people experiencing homelessness.
New COVID rent relief comes just in time. Hereâs detail on help available in Charlotte. (Source: Gray News) By Lauren Lindstrom | December 29, 2020 at 12:14 PM EST - Updated December 29 at 12:14 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Charlotte Observer) - More emergency rent assistance is expected for Mecklenburg County in the new federal relief package, at a time when initial COVID-19 housing aid was running out locally and across North Carolina.
The next relief bill, which President Donald Trump signed late Sunday, includes $25 billion in emergency rent assistance, of which North Carolina is expected to get $700 million. It also extends the federal eviction moratorium one month, until Jan. 31, and would provide for stimulus checks to individuals and parents.
UPDATED 8:15 AM ET Dec. 30, 2020 PUBLISHED 12:35 PM ET Dec. 29, 2020 PUBLISHED 12:35 PM EST Dec. 29, 2020
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UPDATE: On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said the federal government would begin sending out direct deposits for the $600 payments as early as Tuesday night and paper checks could start being mailed Wednesday.
NORTH CAROLINA The president signed the new $900 billion coronavirus relief bill into law over the weekend, along with the $1.4 trillion federal budget. The new federal stimulus bill will increase unemployment payments for North Carolinians and includes $600 checks for most Americans.
The House voted Monday to increase those individual payments to $2,000 after President Donald Trump threatened not to sign the bill, but it is unlikely the Republican-controlled Senate would agree to increase the amount on the checks.
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