Kadiedra Brown-Moody lost work as a certified nursing assistant early in the pandemic, and when her job called her back in May, she couldn’t return because she didn’t have child care and feared catching the coronavirus.

The city’s rental assistance program helped Brown-Moody pay May, June, and July rent to keep her family, which includes her 5-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son, in their Southwest Philadelphia rowhouse. But their landlord is asking for late fees, which the program does not allow landlords to do. She fears that her landlord soon will kick the family out, which also would violate program rules.

“It’s not like we asked for this to happen,” said Brown-Moody, 42. “I don’t think that nobody should have to be on the streets. … Landlords should work with the tenants a little more, because they know the situation.”

One in five adults in Pennsylvania either missed July’s rent or mortgage payment or had slight or no confidence their household could make those payments on time in August, according to a Census Bureau survey last month.

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