Daily News | Homeowners stuck in waiting game | Morning Newsletter
Eighty-year-old Deborah Brown is struggling to keep up with her bills. She was forced to retire due to kidney failure, and it’s become “almost an impossibility” to hold onto the Southwest Philadelphia rowhouse where she’s lived for five decades.
To get help with her mortgage payments and utility bills, Brown applied for the Homeowner Assistance Fund, a state pandemic-relief program offering homeowners up to $50,000.The state has paid out $119 million so far, about a third of the $350 million it received through the federal American Rescue Plan Act. But the program was mismanaged, even leading to applications being mistakenly denied. There’s a backup of more than 15,000 applications.
Brown is now six months behind on her mortgage. Thousands of Pennsylvania homeowners like her are still waiting for help — some of whom applied much earlier than Brown did. Now, homeowners who previously applied must re-register in order for the state to consider their applications, and housing advocates are worried that homeowners don’t know that.“People are facing the loss of their homes while they’re waiting for the money to come through,” said Rachel Labush, supervising attorney at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia. “We’re concerned that many people have given up or don’t know they need to do anything now and are waiting.
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