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State officials plan to roll out a $1.3 billion rental assistance program for Texans struggling to keep up with housing payments during a shaky economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. The new program comes after a separate state initiative was criticized for its limited scope and because many landlords declined to participate. More than 1.6 million Texans had little or no confidence in being able to pay next month’s rent, according to a January survey by the U.S. Census Bureau. Assistance for the new program will only be available to households that make no more than 80% of the are...

Credit User wolfpeterson / Flickr - http://j.mp/1SPGCl0 Michigan is set to receive $622,794,676 from the federal government for emergency rent and utility payments during the COVID-19 pandemic. The House Appropriations Committee doesn't want to give the Michigan State Housing and Development Authority that money all at once: it wants to distribute it in installments. The proposed plan would allocate $165,226,700 to MSHDA immediately, and the rest would be distributed over the course of the year. House Appropriations Chair Thomas Albert (R-Lowell) says this is "simply to ensure accountability ...

The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs expects that 80,000 households could benefit from a new rental assistance program. Credit: Shelby Knowles for The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. State officials plan to roll out a $1.3 billion rental assistance program for Texans struggling to keep up with housing payments during a shaky economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. The new program comes after a separate state initiative was criticized for its limited scope a...

Michigan renters and landlords who are eligible for federal rental assistance are waiting for the state Legislature to allocate federal dollars intended to help Michiganders stay in their homes. Renters are caught between the end of federal rental assistance that ran through December, and federal new assistance, totaling more than $622 million, that will become available after the Legislature distributes it.  Meanwhile, Michigan Republicans say they plan to distribute the new federal aid in installments, starting with $165 million, about a quarter of the rental assistance that Congress ha...

Democrats introduce Whitmer’s $5.6 billion pandemic spending plan in House Updated Feb 01, 2021; Posted Feb 01, 2021 State Rep. Donna Lasinski, D-Scio Township, speaks at a clean water town hall in Scio Township on March 7, 2019. (Ryan Stanton | The Ann Arbor News) Facebook Share LANSING, MI - Democratic state representatives want an up-or-down vote on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s pandemic recovery plan, countering last week’s House Republican proposal. House Bill 4039, sponsored by Rep. Joe Tate, D-Detroit, alongside his Democratic colleagues, is an appropriations bill that mirrors Whitme...