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By Bob Sanders - NH Business Review
• Feb 16, 2021
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Can New Hampshire spend $200 million in federal money to keep people in their homes when it wasn’t able to spend $20 million last year for the same purpose?
That’s the question being asked by state officials, housing activists, tenants and landlords while they wait – after the state’s Housing Relief Program ended on Dec. 18 – for the new federal Emergency Rental Assistance program to begin.
And no one really knows the answer.
“It depends on the universe of need that’s out there,” said Taylor Caswell, commissioner of the Department of Business and Economic Affairs and executive director of the Governor’s Office for Emergency Relief and Recovery, or GOFERR.
Renters in line for more relief
Published: 2/15/2021 7:32:28 AM
Can New Hampshire spend $200 million in federal money to keep people in their homes when it wasn’t able to spend $20 million last year for the same purpose?
That’s the question being asked by state officials, housing activists, tenants and landlords while they wait – after the state’s Housing Relief Program ended on Dec. 18 – for the new federal Emergency Rental Assistance program to begin.
And no one really knows the answer.
“It depends on the universe of need that’s out there,” said Taylor Caswell, commissioner of the Department of Business and Economic Affairs and executive director of the Governor’s Office for Emergency Relief and Recovery, or GOFERR.
FROM THE MAYOR’S OFFICE: Round two of Newton’s Small Business Recovery Grant Program
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More financial assistance is on the way to support our small business community that has struggled so much throughout the many months of this pandemic.
We launched Newton’s Small Business Recovery Grant Program initially in May 2020 and provided $300,000 in assistance to 27 businesses from among the 100-plus applications.
This second round of the program funded by $300,000 in federal supplemental Community Development Block Grant funding, will assist the particularly hard-hit small brick and mortar businesses in our village centers and commercial corridors.Grant awards will range from $10,000 for microenterprises (five employees or fewer, including the owner) to $15,000 for small businesses with 5 to 20 employees. These awards for emergency funding can help pay for commercial rent or mortgage, wages, loss of inventory, and other demonstrated costs.
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Struggling with housing costs?
The economic fallout from the pandemic is creating tremendous pressures on some of us to pay the rent or mortgage. Here are some ways to find help or, if you are a landlord, to provide help.
Emergency Housing Assistance extended
I’m so pleased that two nights ago, the Newton Community Preservation Committee agreed to extend the City’s COVID-19 Emergency Housing Relief Program for a longer period. This program assists Newton households who continue to face a loss of income due to COVID-19 and are struggling to pay housing costs. The CPC approved our Planning Department’s request to extend that assistance for up to eight months for qualified households.