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New York adjusts criteria, extends deadline for coronavirus rent relief FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5Housing advocates gathered outside Albany City Hall to call on elected officials enact an eviction moratorium and rent cancellation for the duration of the pandemic on Monday, June 22, 2020, during a press conference in Albany, N.Y. Housing courts reopened on Monday. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less 2of5Housing advocates gathered outside Albany City Hall to call on elected officials enact an eviction moratorium and rent cancellation for the ...

Dec 19, 2020 ALBANY — New York State Homes and Community Renewal Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas today announced the COVID Rent Relief Program will be reopened for application with expanded eligibility criteria in an effort to serve New Yorkers who may have not had the opportunity to initially apply and those who may have been previously ineligible. HCR will accept applications from households starting at 9 a.m. on Friday, December 18 through Monday, February 1, 2021. “HCR is acutely aware that this pandemic has put more pressure on New Yorkers who were already housing insecure, and th...

Mortgage Rates Hit 15th Record Low of 2020 Money.com 12/17/2020 © Money; Getty Images Mortgage-Rate-Weekly-Down This week, the average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was 2.67% with 0.70 discount points paid. Rates dropped 0.4 percentage points from the week ending December 10 to set the 15th record low of the year. The last record was set on December 3 and held for two weeks. One year ago, the average rate was 3.73%. “Mortgage Rates are at record lows and pushing many prospective homebuyers off the sidelines and into the market,” said Sam Khater, chief economist for Freddie M...

6 Designer-Approved Tips For A Home Office Layout That's More WFH-Friendly Decorating Den Interiors. Design: Dee Frazier Before March 2020, a home office was one of those “nice to have” spaces that often ended up ignored. If you happened to have a WFH day, it’s likely that you posted up in a more appealing place to answer emails—the kitchen counter, the family room sofa, even your bed. But now, with remote work and virtual school being the norm for families across the United States, the home office has become one of the most important, and most coveted, rooms of the house. To ensure...

Record Low Mortgage Rates Stick for Another Week Money.com 12/10/2020 © Money; Getty Images Mortgage-Rate-Weekly-Down Despite rising Treasury yields, mortgage interest rates stayed at the record low for another week, according to Freddie Mac’s weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey. For the week ending December 10, the average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was 2.71% with 0.70 discount points paid. Thats’s steady with the previous week, when rates declined to the 14th low of the year. One year ago, the average rate was 3.73%. “Mortgage rates remain at record lows, resisting ...