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County Launches $59 Million Rent Relief Program Montgomery County’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is currently accepting applications for eligible Montgomery County renters in need of financial assistance due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis while funds are available. “The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted the economic wellbeing of our poorest and most vulnerable renters and we must do everything in our power to keep them in their homes,” said Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich. Eligible households may rec...

By Bob Sanders - NH Business Review • Feb 16, 2021 Credit Shane Adams via Flickr/CC - http://ow.ly/OJ5Pe 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 ...

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 ...

FROM THE MAYOR’S OFFICE: Round two of Newton’s Small Business Recovery Grant Program Community Content 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...

Community Content 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 ...