The city-parish has launched a new website to assess the needs of residents still struggling to pay rent due to the coronavirus pandemic as it prepares to receive additional federal funding for its rental assistance program.
Through its new digital website, www.EBRemergencysolutions.com, the city-parish says it will "rapidly and efficiently" prioritize how it will dole out assistance approved in the last coronavirus relief package.
Baton Rouge, so far, has received $6.5 million from the U.S. Treasury to implement a rental assistance program and is set to receive another $22.5 million to address needs already on East Baton Rouge Parish's waiting list with the Louisiana Emergency Rental Assistance Program, officials said Monday.
"As federal resources continue to roll down to our community, it is important we determine the true needs so we can develop and expand partnerships and programs coordinated across multiple agencies to help residents get current on rent and ultimately keep people in their homes, as well as addressing other needs that contribute to basic quality of life," Mayor-President Sharon Westin Broome said in a prepared statement Monday.
East Baton Rouge Parish officials are scrambling to establish a program to give out rental assistance funds Congress approved in the latest co…
East Baton Rouge Parish is one of seven large parishes in the state that will implement their own rental assistance programs with the federal dollars. The Louisiana Housing Corporation is overseeing allocation of the funds for the other 57 parishes.
Under federal guidelines, the money can cover up to 12 months of back rent and three months of future rent payments, with an option for an additional three months if needed. It is available to cover the rent for those making 80% of the area's average median income, with an emphasis on those making just 50%.
The city-parish previously gave out more than $800,000 to various rental and mortgage assistance programs with the first round of federal stimulus money passed down from Congress last year through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act.
One of those agencies, the Urban Restoration Enhancement Corporation, said in January said it didn't have enough money to keep up with the demand of those needing assistance with rental payments as the pandemic continued.
Officials with a Baton Rouge rental assistance program say they don't have enough money to help the more than 3,000 people who have applied, a…
The coronavirus assistance package passed in December, which had $25 billion in rental assistance, $311 million of which went to Louisiana, isn’t the only aid coming for renters. President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion package expected to make its way through Congress in the coming days has another $27.4 billion for rental assistance, about $22 billion of which will filter through the programs that have opened in Louisiana in recent weeks, according to the Fair Housing Action Center.
Residents who submit needs assessments through the city-parish's online portal will then receive a notice on how they can apply for assistance if they are qualified once the program launches March 15.
In addition, the Mayor's Office is hosting a webinar for landlords at 10 a.m. Wednesday to provide information about the rental assistance program. Landlords can register at www.brla.gov/communitydevelopment
Staff writer Chad Calder contributed to this report.
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