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- Listen back to episode 206 to learn if hiring a financial advisor is a good idea for you.
- Learn more about federal rent assistance via the CFPB.
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With federal rent assistance the issue lies with the programs. Many of them have stopped accepting applications or haven’t even built an access portal to their city/county. I checked Atlanta and they have currently stopped accepting applications. This is a case of poor management and not poor outreach.
-Turner
Thanks for that, Turner. The rollout of these programs has been continually bungled. Fortunately we’re not seeing evictions skyrocketing right now. But I still wish that money had actually flowed into the hands of renters in need.