Daniris Espinal Brooklyn a few moments after going to his new apartment, he prayed. In the next night, he woke up and touched the walls for assurance – found a relief between them that turned into tears over his morning coffee.
These walls were made possible through a federal program that paid for about 60,000 families and rents for people who escaped from homelessness or domestic violence. Both of the aspinal were fleeing.
However, the emergency housing vouchers program is going out of money – and fast.
According to a letter from the US Housing and Urban Development Department and a letter received by Associated Press, funds are expected to be used later next year. It shakes thousands of people all over the country to rent them.
This will be one of the biggest one-time losses of rental assistance in the United States, analysts say, and the subsequent evictions can churn these people-back to the back of their lives for years or back to objectionable relationships.
“It will completely raise the progress they have made,” said Sonia Acosta, the policy analyst of the center of the budget and policy priority center by researching housing assistance.
“And then you multiply it by 59,000 families,” he said.
The program, which was launched in 2021, was allocated $ 1 billion to help people away from homelessness, domestic violence and human trafficking by the then President Joe Biden as part of the epidemic-era American Rescue Plan Act.
People were listed from San Francisco to Dallas to Florida Talahasi – among them children, seniors and seniors – with this expectation that funds will run from the end of the decade.
However, with the balloning expense of rent, $ 5 billion will end faster.
Last month, HUD sent letters to groups that “your HUD suggested to handle your EHV program with the expectation that no additional funds would be imminent from HUD.”
The future of the program is fixed with the Congress, which can decide to add the federal budget to the budget. However, this is relatively expensive at a time when the Congress -controlled Republicans set the deadly spending on the federal expenditure for tax reduction.
Democratic rep. Maxine Waters, who championed the program four years ago, is pressing for another 8 billion dollars.
However, the companies have asked the EP to redefine the funds for Republicans and Democratic Law makers that they are not optimistic. Four GOP lawmakers who oversee the budget discussion did not respond to the AP requests to comment.
“We have been told that this is going to be a final fight,” said Kim Johnson, a public policy manager of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
Espinal and two daughters, 4 and 19 years old, are living in one of those vouchers with more than $ 3,000 a monthly fare in the three-bedroom apartment-it is a very difficult amount of cover without voucher.
Four years ago, Espinal fought on the way out of a wedding that had controlled his decisions to leave the apartment, starting from showing his family and friends to his family and friends.
When she spoke, her husband said that she was wrong, or wrong or crazy.
In the smoke of isolated and postpartum disappointment, he did not know what to believe. “Every day, with a little bit of, I don’t start to feel like myself,” he said. “I thought my mind was not mine.”
When the notice came in March 2021, about $ 12,000 wanted a back rent, it was a push. Espinal quit his job in her husband and she promised to spend family expenses.
Espinal said police reported that the explosion of her husband’s wrath was sufficient for a judge registered in 2022, as well as to protect their daughter in 2022.
But his future was uncertain: he was alone, rented thousands of dollars behind and there was no income to give or support his newborn and teenage daughter.
During the epidemic, financial assistance to prevent eviction carry the aspinal, pays the rent behind it and keep the family away from the shelter. However, it was the expiry date.
In that time, the emergency housing voucher program targets people in the Espinal situation.
“Domestic Violence is the leading cause of family homeless in New York City”, New Destiny Housing Housing Access and Stabilities Services Director Gina Kapuchiti says a non -profit that has connected 700 domestic violence to the voucher program.
Espinal moved to one of those 700 and in 2023 his Brooklyn apartment.
He said that a safe place was out of finding to stay relieved, he said. “I got my qualifications, got the feeling of peace and I was able to rebuild my identity.”
Now, he said he was excluding money in the worst case. Because, “This is my fear that I have worked so hard to lose control of everything”. “
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