Amid rising rents and a flood of evictions, Orange County will stop taking applications Friday for its emergency rental assistance program, which has distributed most of the $30.1 million in federal aid it got to help struggling tenants stay in their homes.

About 1,800 applicants remain in a queue for the income-based program’s remaining dollars that total about $2 million.

The program, which has paid delinquent rent for about 4,700 households, received its funding from the Consolidated Appropriations Act approved by Congress in December 2020, said Dianne Arnold who oversees the application process for the county.

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