Moments after Daniris Espinal entered his new apartment in BrooklynShe prayed. In the night of the night, she would awaken and touched the belief walls – finding in them a relief that turned to tears over the morning coffee.
These walls were a possible federal program that pays the rent for about 60,000 families and individuals running from homelessness or domestic violence. Espinal was running away both.
But program, emergency vouchers, running out of money – and fast.
Funding is expected to be used by the end of next year, according to the letter from the American Ministry of Housing and Urban Development and obtained by an associate printing. This would leave dozens of thousands across the country moving to pay their rent.
It would be among the greatest one-time losses for rent in the USA, analysts say, and the next eviction could break out these people – after a few years of restoration of their lives – back to the streets or back into violent relationships.
“To stop completely completely compensated by the progress they made,” said Sonya Acosta, a policy analyst in the center on the budget and political priorities, which explains housing assistance.
“And then multiply that for 59,000 households,” she said.
Program, launched in 2021. years since then President Joe Biden As part of the American Law Pandemic, $ 5 billion was singled out to help people with caress from homelessness, domestic violence and human trafficking.
People from San Francisco to Dallas to Tallahassee, Florida, are enrolled – among them children, seniors and veterans – with the expectation that funding will last until the end of the decade.
But with the cost of baling the rent, that $ 5 billion will end far faster.
Last month, HUD sent letters to groups who break money, advising them to “manage your EHV program with the expectation that there will be no additional funds than HUD.”
It will be in the future of the program CongressWhat could decide to add money as a turn of the federal budget. But it is a relatively expensive perspective at the time when RepublicansWho controlled Congress, are dead placed for cutting federal spending to afford tax reduction.
Democratic tail. Maxine WatersWhich four years ago sprayed the program, pushes for another $ 8 billion infusion.
But organizations lobby Republican and democratic representatives for re-commissioning, they told them the AP that they were not optimistic. Four deputies for GOP legislators who monitor the budget negotiations did not respond to AP comment requests.
“We were told that it would be largely uphill,” Kim Johnson said, a public policy manager at the National Housing Low Receims.
Espinal and its two daughters, aged 4 and 19, live in one of these vouchers in a three-bedroom apartment with over $ 3,000 monthly rent – an amount extremely difficult to cover without vouchers.
Four years ago, Espinal fought from marriage in which her husband controled his decisions, to see her family and friends to leave shopping.
When she uttered, her husband said he was wrong, or wrong or crazy.
It was insulated in the blink of the postposter depression did not know what to believe. “Every day, little little, I started feeling not as myself,” she said. “It felt like my mind was not mine.”
When the notifications arrived in March 2021. years, and the search for about $ 12,000 in tenation, it was a shock. Espinal left his job on his wife, and he promised to cover family costs.
The reports of the police who document the bursts of rage husband were sufficient to judge to give his daughter in 2022. years, Espinal said.
But her future was insecure: She was alone, owed thousands of dollars in tenation in tenation and had no income to pay him or support their newborns and teen daughters.
Financial assistance for preventing eviction during the pandemic have maintained the ESPINAL on the water, the payment of the back rented and storing the family from the shelter. But he had expiry date.
The area is extracted by an emergency voucher, targeting people in the Espiran situation.
“The leading cause of the family homeless is domestic violence” in New York, Gina Cappuccitti, director of housing and stability services in new accommodation for destiny, nonprofit survivors within the voucher.
Espinal was one of those 700 and moved into his Brooklyn apartment in 2023. years.
The relief has passed on to which he found a safe place to live, she said. “I gained my value, my sense of peace and managed to renew my identity.”
She said, she, she pulled money in case of the worst case. Because, “It’s my fear, I lose control of everything I worked so hard.”