The mother of two is worried about being placed on the street if she's not approved for the rental relief program, which shut down applications on Thursday due to running out of money.
“I’m hoping that the Texas Rent Relief Program will come through for us so we wouldn’t have to go into a homeless shelter,” she said.“I was doing other people’s laundry and door dashing, anything I could, and then it just got too hard and I was too pregnant to keep going with that type of work,” she said.Lone Star Legal Aid is helping her fight to stay in her home for now, but she said when she heard the Texas Rent Relief portal reopening, she felt some hope.
However, after opening for a few days, the portal closed a week early on Thursday after reportedly running out of money.The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs said in a news release that $96 million in rent relief is available for eligible households with rent and utility payments. Dana Karni is the Litigation Director for Lone Star Legal Aid and says there are other options for rental relief.Lone Star Legal Aid is one of the legal services in the program.
“Another thing I always recommend to tenants and landlords is that they seek information in the courthouse,” she said. “If the Eviction Defense Coalition is in a courthouse, we are in a position to provide. I need the information for all litigants.” The Eviction Defense Coalition is made up of five local legal providers to help all renters, including those who are undocumented.
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