Temporary rental assistance available in Olmsted County
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New on daybreak new for you on daybreak, olmsted county now has temporary rental assistance available if you need help due to covid?
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Kimt news 3's madelyne watkins joins us live this morning to tell us what you need to do to apply.
Madelyne./// brooke and tyler.
The eviction moratorium here in minnesota is set to expire just next week... august 12th.
But olmsted county residents can get some temporary relief once that happens.
The olmsted county housing and redevelopment authority, along with the county has put together a temporary rental assistance fund for people who have lost income because of the pandemic.
Housing director, dave dunn, tells me the funds first became available with money from the hra... then on tuesday, they received some "cares act" funding.
If and when they go through those funds... dunn explains they'll apply for more through the state.
There are three main things they'll look at when you apply ?
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"* that's your income, your assets and make sure you really are struggling and have losses because of covid?
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"so what we're doing right now is taking kind of a temporary funding source, which was the first phase of our response, which was the funding we had available through our hra levy.
And now that we've got cares act and other funding available, we're those kinda temporary uses to more permanent solutions."
Dunn tells me funding through the "cares act" has to be used by the end of this year.
So now... they're starting to plan for temporary funding in their budget for 2021 because they want to prevent as many evictions as possible.
Live in rochester.
Madelyne watkins kimt news 3.
Thank you madelyne.
Dunn says if you're needing rental assistance... reach out to your landlord first.
Then you can fill out the application.
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