The department of job and family services primarily serves households with children and is able to braid funding resources to offer additional rent and utility assistance if necessary. At least 90 percent of awarded funds must be used for direct financial assistance, including rent, rental arrears, utilities and home energy costs, utilities and home energy costs arrears, and other expenses related to housing. Homeowners can find out what homeowner assistance covers, how it works, and who’s eligible on the interagency housing portal hosted by the consumer financial protection bureau (cfpb). Renters and landlords can explore other rental assistance resources on the interagency housing portal hosted by the consumer financial protection bureau (cfpb). During the depths of the pandemic, the treasury department’s emergency rental assistance (era) and homeowners assistance fund (haf) programs kept americans in their homes, provided assistance to american households at risk of eviction or foreclosure.
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