Rental assistance still being offered in Ada County

 

Nearly 700 applications for rental assistance have been submitted in Ada County since the window to apply for financial aid opened two weeks ago.

Ada County and the city of Boise each received roughly $12 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds to help renters.

So far, the Boise City/Ada County Housing Authorities have given rental and utilities assistance to 264 households, totaling over $1.2 million. Most of that will go toward rent payments, while roughly $56,000 will go toward utilities.

There have been 460 Boise applications for the assistance and 237 Ada County applications.

The Idaho Press reports, Ada County and the city of Boise are both ahead of the rest of the state in providing rental assistance because they opted into the federal COVID-19 relief last year. Canyon County did not.