{"id":5613,"date":"2021-07-15T15:47:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T15:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5613"},"modified":"2021-07-15T15:47:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T15:47:04","slug":"the-federal-government-has-spent-46-billion-on-emergency-rental-assistance-the-rollout-has-been-a-hot-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5613","title":{"rendered":"The Federal Government Has Spent $46 Billion on Emergency Rental Assistance. The Rollout Has Been a Hot Mess."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Throughout the pandemic, the median view of good housing policy\u2014supported by landlord associations, tenant advocates, and policy wonks of all ideological stripes\u2014has been to have the federal government fund rent relief. That way, the providers of rental housing can pay their bills, and financially pressed renters aren&#8217;t forced onto the streets or into more crowded living situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite these funds being appropriated for rent relief programs, actually getting money to people continues to be a major challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"7XyhxshhCN\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/06\/08\/the-federal-government-has-spent-46-billion-on-emergency-rental-assistance-the-rollout-has-been-a-hot-mess\/\">The Federal Government Has Spent $46 Billion on Emergency Rental Assistance. The Rollout Has Been a Hot Mess.<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;The Federal Government Has Spent $46 Billion on Emergency Rental Assistance. The Rollout Has Been a Hot Mess.&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/06\/08\/the-federal-government-has-spent-46-billion-on-emergency-rental-assistance-the-rollout-has-been-a-hot-mess\/embed\/#?secret=Z1MwTdlzdH#?secret=7XyhxshhCN\" data-secret=\"7XyhxshhCN\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Throughout the pandemic, the median view of good housing policy\u2014supported by landlord associations, tenant advocates, and policy wonks of all ideological stripes\u2014has been to have the federal government fund rent relief. That way, the providers of rental housing can pay their bills, and financially pressed renters aren&#8217;t forced onto the streets or into more crowded living situations.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these funds being appropriated for rent relief programs, actually getting money to people continues to be a major challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,1193,411,437,279,624,150],"class_list":["post-5613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-government-spending","tag-policy","tag-rent","tag-spending","tag-stimulus","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5614,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions\/5614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}