Hudson County plans to distribute about $12 million in rental assistance to residents throughout the county, using funding it received from the federal coronavirus relief package, a spokesman said.
Officials hope to begin accepting rental assistance applications by the end of the month, but are first conducting a survey to understand the varying situations renters are experiencing across the county, said spokesman Jim Kennelly.
Statewide, 40% of renters say they cannot make their payments this month, according to a study conducted by Stout Risius Ross, an advisory firm.
Hudson County received about $117 million total in CARES Act funding. It divided $70.8 million among the county’s municipal governments and about $36 million for small business relief, Kennelly said. The $12 million for rental assistance is the remainder of the federal funding.
To put $12 million into context, that represents six months of rent for about 680 families, based on the average rent in Jersey City.
Racially, the disparity between who can and cannot pay rent is stark. Nearly half of African-American renting households in the state said they could not make the payment, compared to 18% of white renter households, according to the Stout study.
About one-third of households nationwide did not make their full July rent payment, according to rental website Apartment List.
“You have a distinct population that’s on the margins in Hudson County,” Kennelly said. “These are folks who are struggling to stay out of shelters and … that group has only expanded because of the impact (of the coronavirus).”
County officials are in the process of determining the logistics of the program, such as how much each grant will be worth, who will be eligible and how the money will be awarded, Kennelly said. The digital survey that the county is encouraging renters to fill out will help shape those policies, he said.
Questions on the survey, available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HCCOVIDRentalAssistanceSurvey, include how much you owe in back rent, whether you have been able to negotiate with your landlord and what your current monthly income is. It is in English and Spanish.
The county plans to have the survey open until the end of next week, then hopes to reveal the official rental assistance program on Aug. 17 and open it for applications Aug. 24, Kennelly said.
The state recently conducted a $100 million rental assistance program as a lottery. Of 60,000 people who applied, about 8,000 people were awarded up to six months of rental assistance.
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