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The Treasury said jurisdictions that have
distributed all of their first-round allocations and 75% of
their second-round allocations can seek to draw down additional
funding.
Among jurisdictions cited by Treasury as being in line for new
funds are Philadelphia; Honolulu city and county; Hawaii's
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; Des Moines and Polk County,
Iowa; Houston and Harris County, Texas; Leon County, Florida;
and New Orleans.
"Treasury is happy to provide these state and local government
programs with additional resources to support Americans in need
of rental assistance," Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo
said in a statement. "We are also committed to reallocating
resources to ensure assistance reaches struggling tenants and
landlords during the pandemic."
The Treasury has warned it will begin to shift funding away from
jurisdictions that do not have working assistance programs by
the end of September to states and communities that have
effective programs.
The $46 billion Emergency Rental Assistance program approved in
coronavirus aid bills passed in December and March has been slow
to ramp up even as the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an
extension of a national eviction moratorium. The funds must be
administered locally, and the program has met some resistance in
Republican-run states and onerous documentation requirements and
implementation problems in other jurisdictions.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen last week urged state and
local governments to expedite their programs to avoid lasting
economic damage from evictions.
(Reporting by David Lawder in Washington; Editing by Matthew
Lewis)
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