New York's Emergency Rental Assistance Program was an administrative nightmare, but it more or less did what it was supposed to do. cliomiso reports
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Getty Torna Browne was working in child care when the pandemic first hit. Things dried up almost immediately — first during the initial lockdown and then as more people kept their children at home long term. Soon she was having trouble covering rent on the apartment in East New York she shares with her college-age son. “I kept saying, I’ll figure it out.
The specifics of Browne’s case made it easier, though not exactly easy, to navigate the program. Her landlord is a family friend, so they talked through the application process. “This guy’s considerate,” Browne said. “I don’t think someone else would have been this patient for over a year and half.” But many tenants know their landlords primarily as the address of an LLC where they write monthly checks. Suddenly, they were thrust into an uneasy kind of partnership.
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