City to provide $14M in rent, utility assistance
With hundreds behind on rent and utilities, Mesa is moving quickly to pump out new funding assistance. In 2020, the Mesa CARES program funneled federal money to provide 1,781 families with nearly $7 million in rent assistance. The average payment per household was $3,875. But the program ran out of funding in early December, leaving 2,000 on a waiting list just when COVID-19 started a holiday surge. Similar to the vaccine shots that boost a bodyâs defense, the city just received $15.7 ...
Source: eastvalleytribune.com