President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a $1.9 trillion coronavirus plan Thursday to end “a crisis of deep human suffering” by speeding up vaccines and pumping out financial help to those struggling with the pandemic’s prolonged economic fallout.
As we approach winter, we are living through an alarming spike of coronavirus cases, and while a vaccine has been approved in record time, it will likely take several months to reach all Americans.
Massachusetts may be in line to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to renters from the federal government thanks to the latest COVID-19 relief bill, but the infrastructure needed to quickly distribute those funds to tenants and landlords is still getting up and running.
Massachusetts renters and their landlords will get some measure of relief from a $900 billion federal COVID-19 aid package agreed to by congressional negotiators Sunday night.
With new eviction filings on the rise, MetroHousing|Boston said Friday that it is experiencing significant delays processing applications for emergency housing aid.
Gov. Charlie Baker said Tuesday that despite the growing number of residents facing eviction he does not see a need at this time to return to the moratorium on evictions and foreclosures.
Over four dozen owners and operators of affordable housing units announced a joint pledge this morning to work with their tenants in financial trouble due to the COVID-19 recession and avoid evicting them over missed rent payments.
The Mayor’s Office is reaching out to Boston tenants at risk of eviction as the statewide eviction moratorium creeps closer to its Oct. 17 expiration.
With a month left until the state’s moratorium on evictions and foreclosures is due to expire, Cardinal Sean O’Malley and the bishops of the Catholic dioceses of Worcester, Fall River and Springfield are speaking up in support of the legislation that would extend those tenant protections into 2021 and potentially longer.
Massachusetts’ largest affordable housing operator is extending its moratorium on evictions for tenants with financial hardship through Dec. 31 in response to lingering COVID-19 impacts.
With the clock ticking for potential legislative action to extend housing relief measures, sponsors of a new bill aimed at preserving a mandatory pause on housing removals highlighted support and strategies on Thursday.
With seemingly dwindling prospects of new federal aid for people still struggling to pay rent thanks to the COVID-19 crisis, the state could see “chaos” as its eviction and foreclosure moratorium ends Aug. 18, a leading housing advocate says.
The Federal Housing Administration is extending its COVID-19 foreclosure and eviction moratorium for the second time, this time for two months.
It is right that we should seek to keep everyone stably housed during a pandemic. But this particular law has set in motion a chain of events that could alter the face of the commonwealth for the worse.
Only 80.2 percent of U.S. apartment-dwellers had paid their May rent as of May 6, prompting a landlord group to renew its appeal for a $100 billion federal direct renter assistance program.
The state has issued guidance and forms for landlords and tenants to use during the eviction moratorium Gov. Charlie Baker signed into law last week.
