The Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (IHCDA) is taking a hiatus on accepting new applications for the Indiana Emergency Rental Assistance Program beginning Friday, July 29 at 5 p.m. ET.
To date, IHCDA has paid and obligated $365 million to more than 29,000 Hoosier households. In accordance with Treasury guidelines, Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) programs can pay three months of forward-facing rent at one time. When a household is deemed eligible for assistance, IHCDA pays qualifying arrearages and late fees, plus three months of forward-facing rent and utilities, and reserves any remaining months of assistance for that household. Should they have a continued need for assistance, eligible households can recertify and receive another three months of forward-facing rent, up to a total of 18 months.
IHCDA will continue to issue payments to those households already approved for an Indiana Emergency Rental Assistance benefit up to the maximum allowable benefit of 18 months. IHCDA will also continue to process applications currently in queue and reserve available funds until funds are fully obligated. IHCDA estimates it has approximately $80 million remaining in unobligated funding. Applications currently in queue, and those that IHCDA anticipates receiving prior to the deadline, will likely fully obligate the remaining funds. In order to ensure there is funding available to assist those households with pending applications, IHCDA will close the application portal and focus on processing and distributing benefits to those households that have applied.
To continue providing housing stability for Hoosiers, IHCDA has partnered with the Indiana Bar Foundation, Inc. and the Indiana Community Action Association, Inc. to provide legal services and housing counseling and case management services to Hoosiers facing housing instability.
