Housing Help From Pandemic Relief Fading, But Need Growing

By Alan Gionet, CBS Denver:

Applications for state run COVID-19 rental assistance financed largely by federal COVID relief dollars will close after Tuesday, with millions still left to be distributed. There are so many applications backlogged, it will still take months to process the claims that are waiting.

"In order to ensure the applications currently in review do not exceed the amount of funds remaining, the State must stop accepting new applications after 11:59 p.m. on November 15, 2022, but the Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) will continue processing applications received prior to that date and is anticipating distributing assistance well into 2023," said The State Department of Local Affairs, Division of Housing in a statement sent to CBS News Colorado.

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