FAIRFIELD COUNTY ? Lancaster-Fairfield Community Action Agency has been working through the eviction court for years to keep people in their homes.

Now a new influx of funding will help income-eligible, COVID-impacted renters with past due rent and utilities.

According to Lancaster-Fairfield CAA Executive Director Clinton Davis, there had already been a home relief program in place to curb evictions, but that ended in September. Funding for the original program was through the Emergency Rental Assistance Program.

“We’ve been doing a big COVID-related home relief program over the last several years through the ERA1 funding and that ended in September,” said Davis. “So, up until then we had been going to eviction court, working with legal aid, we’d be there every week. We’d be working with the house tenants and the landlords to make sure that if the reason the eviction was happening was just lack of payment, then we could work with them right now to find out if they were eligible for the program and if they were we could get the application started and avoid eviction. That was huge. A lot of times we could even get with them before the eviction.”

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