Texas has disbursed less than 1% of the $1.3 billion in federal funding for pandemic rent relief in the program’s first 45 days, according to a scathing new report from the Texas House of Representatives Committee on Urban Affairs. The report – based on data from the private vendor hired for the disbursement program – details software problems, application backlogs …
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April 7, 2021