County Helps Prevent Renters’ Homelessness

RIVERSIDE – The Riverside County Economic Development Agency says it will use more than $4 million to help prevent troubled families and residents from losing their rental homes and apartments, heading offhomelessness.

The money is part of the president’s recovery money.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is administering the funding through its new Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP), which provides funding to communities across the country that then provide help to local individuals and families. HPRP offers a variety of short- and medium-term financial assistance to those who would otherwise become homeless, many due to a sudden economic crisis. This can include short-term rental assistance (up to three months), medium-term rental assistance (up to 12 months), security deposits, utility deposits, utility payments, moving cost assistance, and hotel vouchers.

For more information on the HPRP program please contact the Housing Authority’s HPRP team at 866-414-0870.