{"id":12652,"date":"2025-04-04T11:02:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T15:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/?p=12652"},"modified":"2025-04-04T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T15:12:11","slug":"maryland-department-of-housing-and-community-development-opens-applications-for-new-community-schools-rental-assistance-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/2025\/04\/04\/maryland-department-of-housing-and-community-development-opens-applications-for-new-community-schools-rental-assistance-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Opens Applications for Community Schools Rental Assistance Program\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Program provides emergency rental assistance to eligible student households enrolled in Maryland community schools who are experiencing housing instability and homelessness<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

NEW CARROLLTON, MD (April 4, 2025) <\/b>\u2013 The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development today announced applications are open for the Community Schools Rental Assistance Program. The new program, <\/span>established<\/span><\/a> during the 2024 Legislative Session and administered by the Department\u2019s Division of Homeless Solutions, provides emergency rental assistance to eligible student households enrolled in Maryland community schools who are experiencing housing instability and homelessness.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day, we work to reinforce the fact that homelessness is a housing status, not a population. Across Maryland, families and youth are highly impacted by homelessness \u2013 they just tend to be hidden since they are less likely to be unsheltered,\u201d <\/span>said Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Secretary Jake Day. <\/b>\u201cThrough the Community Schools Rental Assistance Program, we\u2019re not only supporting families in crisis, but also fostering stronger communities where every child has the opportunity to succeed academically and personally.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Department anticipates awarding a total of $10 million in funding to grantees, which includes $5 million from Fiscal Year 2025 appropriations and an estimated $5 million for Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations. Final funding awarded through the competitive round is contingent on the program appropriation approved in the final Fiscal Year 2026 state budget.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eligible uses of financial assistance under the program include prospective rent (including security deposit), rental arrears, prospective utility assistance, utility arrears, relocation expenses, and fines or fees associated with rental or utility payments.<\/span><\/p>\n

Funds will be awarded on a competitive basis to qualified organizations. Organizations must be a nonprofit, local government agency, or quasi public-private organization to be eligible to apply for program funds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Department will host a virtual information session on April 9, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. All completed applications for the Community Schools Rental Assistance Program are due no <\/span>later than 4:00 p.m. on May 1, 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information on the training session and to apply, visit the <\/span>Division of Homeless Solutions webpage<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Program provides emergency rental assistance to eligible student households enrolled in Maryland community schools who are experiencing housing instability and homelessness NEW CARROLLTON, MD (April 4, 2025) \u2013 The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development today announced applications are open for the Community Schools Rental Assistance Program. The new program, established during the 2024  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":11394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homelessness","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12654,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12652\/revisions\/12654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}