Durham Rent Relief Conversation with Legal Aid's Sarah D'Amato
Channel: Info at DataWorks NC
Date: 2022-01-12

This discussion with Sarah D'Amato of Durham's Legal Aid Eviction Diversion Program was recorded on January 11, 2022. Legal Aid's distribution of Durham Rental Relief begins on January 12. Legal Aid's portal for getting rent relief is on the web here: https://www.durhamrentrelief.org.

Background: this rental assistance is round 2 of the funding from the US Treasury that has been called Emergency Rental Assistance. Round 1 of this funding was distributed by Durham County's Department of Social Services. DSS is distributing additional emergency rental assistance as well, but funding applications received in 2021 that funding was not available for yet.