The University of Pennsylvania's Housing Initiative at Penn (HIP) and the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) have released a joint report-"Treasury Emergency Rental Assistance Programs in 2021: Preliminary Analysis of Program Features and Spending Performance"- which analyzes emergency rental assistance (ERA) program features and outcomes, using NLIHC's ERA database, a survey of ERA program administrators, and expenditure data from the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Based on NLIHC's ERA database, programs that used categorical eligibility or fact-specific proxy for income eligibility spent a higher share of their ERA allocations by September 30, 2021, on average, than programs that did not. Surveyed programs typically expected demand for the program to exceed the number of households they could serve. Due to funding constraints, the median program expected to serve 62 of completed applications it expected to receive.
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