{"id":20774,"date":"2023-11-16T08:53:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=20774"},"modified":"2023-11-16T08:54:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:54:39","slug":"emergency-rental-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/emergency-rental-program\/","title":{"rendered":"San Mateo County Supervisors Increase Funding for Emergency Rental Program"},"content":{"rendered":"
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San Mateo County has reallocated more than $2.5 million to support emergency financial assistance programs for people in need and the emergency rental program.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Thomas Hughes. Bay City News<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday reallocated more than $2.5 million to shore up emergency financial assistance programs for people in need, including for the emergency rental program, and called for a reexamination of a county policy that restricts rental assistance to those who have lived in the county for at least 90 days.<\/span><\/p>\n

Several supervisors said policy should be relaxed in the face of stronger demand.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe need for emergency financial assistance has increased,\u201d said Claire Cunningham, director of the County Human Services Agency<\/a>, during his application to the board.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cunningham asked the board to approve adding just over $1 million from Measure K, the half-cent increase to the county\u2019s sales tax approved in 2016, to the programs, which are administered through a group of eight nonprofit service providers known as the county\u2019s \u201ccore providers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Another $1.5 million specifically for rental assistance was directed to the emergency program through an appropriations transfer request from Supervisor Noelia Corzo. The funds, also from Measure K, were allocated to the county manager\u2019s office. The rental assistance program is administered through the nonprofit Samaritan House for those who qualify.<\/span><\/p>\n

But board members questioned one of those qualifications, which requires 90 days of residency in the county to be eligible for rental assistance.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe that\u2019s something the board should really consider. I\u2019d like to study it a little bit more,\u201d said Supervisor David Canepa.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He said he had been receiving more calls in the last month about constituents struggling to secure housing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who have not lived in the county for 90 days can apply for a bed at a congregate shelter. But while there are regularly available beds on the bay side of the county, shelters on the coastal side of the county have a waiting list, according to County Executive Mike Callagy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Corzo said he agreed the policy should be reexamined and said he would discuss it at the next meeting of the community action agency, which connects the public with the county Human Services Agency. The next meeting is scheduled for Nov. 28, but a location has not been set.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both expenses were approved unanimously.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Por Thomas Hughes. Bay City News. La Junta de Supervisores del Condado de San Mateo reasign\u00f3 el martes m\u00e1s de 2.5 millones de d\u00f3lares para apuntalar los programas de asistencia financiera de emergencia para personas necesitadas, y tambi\u00e9n para el programa de emergencia para el alquiler, pidi\u00f3 que se reexamine una pol\u00edtica del condado que […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-cover"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20774"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20779,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20774\/revisions\/20779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}