The Illinois Housing Department Authority announced on Monday that it will reopen the Illinois Rental Payment Program on Monday, Dec. 6 instead of Nov. 8. While the date of the reopening has changed, IHDA has said money from this round of funding will still be distributed to approved Illinois residents before the end of the year as originally planned.
In the first round of the ILRPP launched in May, IHDA reviewed all completed applications, approved more than 57,000 and paid out nearly $540 million on behalf of renters experiencing pandemic-related hardships. Since 2020, the state of Illinois has provided over $776 million in emergency rental assistance to help keep more than 103,100 Illinois seniors, families and others safely housed.
Applications for rental assistance will be accepted beginning Monday, Dec. 6 through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 9 at an IDHA website.
"While this delays the date we’ll begin accepting applications, IHDA is committed to meeting the original timeline of disbursing rental assistance money to tenants and landlords in December," IHDA Executive Director Kristin Faust said in a statement. "We recognize this postponement may cause concern for tenants facing eviction, but there is help for renters available now."
For renters in immediate need of assistance, the Illinois Department of Human Services is currently accepting applications for rental assistance. Households looking for such assistance should contact an IDHS Service Provider Agency to ask about rental assistance. A list of those agencies can be found here.
Further aiming to reduce evictions in Illinois, a Court-Based Rental Assistance Program administered by IDHS is available to assist tenants outside of Cook County with active cases in eviction court. Tenants may apply for up to 12 months of past-due rent and up to three months of future rent payments using their eviction court case number here.
The December 2021 reopening of ILRPP will provide more than $250 million to renters and landlords seeking to prevent evictions and keep families safe and secure while regaining financial footing. The additional funding is expected to assist more than 27,000 Illinois households.
ILRPP provides direct funding to support Illinois tenants unable to pay their rent due to a COVID-19-related loss of income. Approved applicants will receive one-time grants of up to $25,000 paid directly to their landlords on their behalf. If the landlord chooses not to participate in the program, tenants may receive payments directly. In this application round, assistance will cover up to 18 months of emergency rental payments, including up to 15 months of missed payments and up to three months of future rent payments. Rent owed from June 2020 through April 2022 may be paid for with ILRPP funds. Priority will be given to households earning less than 50% of Area Median Income and to households with one or more members who have been unemployed for at least 90 days.
To be eligible for the payments, households must live in Illinois and rent their home as their primary residence, have experience financial hardship directly or indirectly due to the pandemic, have income below 80% of AMI adjusted for household size and have an unpaid rent balance.
Proof of citizenship is not required and tenants residing in state- or federally-subsidized housing are eligible to apply.
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