PHFA provides final tallies for the CARES Rent Relief Program
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ After five months of administering CARES financial assistance for renters, the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency is providing final summary data about the performance of the Rent Relief Program, which started accepting applications on July 6. The program was extended by an executive order from Governor Tom Wolf on Oct. 5; it accepted applications through Nov. 4.
For the CARES Rent Relief Program (RRP), all 67 participating county organizations have now submitted their final performance data, and that data has been confirmed. A table providing key performance metrics is available on the PHFA website.
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Capital Tonight that the law in place purporting to be an eviction moratorium, “The Tenants Safe Harbor Act,” doesn’t save many tenants from eviction and needs to be either fixed, scrapped, or replaced.
“All this law affords is an affirmative defense to an eviction, so landlords have every right to sue tenants no matter what the situation is that they’re in,” said Felts, executive director of United Tenants of Albany.
But the act, which was signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo in June, and sponsored by Senator Brad Hoylman and Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz, looks different from the landlords’ perspective.