Treasury plan to take rental assistance back from states may put struggling families in greater peril

Surgo Ventures finds that six states vulnerable to the impacts of COVID-19 could lose funding under current allocation rules, calls for new barometer based on household need

Washington, DC, February 10, 2022 – Surgo Ventures today released an analysis of the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program showing that the US Treasury plan to reallocate unused funds because they have been spent too slowly is an inequitable strategy that fails to consider the needs of families and landlords.