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Joseph A. Smith, Jr.

COMMENTARY

NC must act with speed and transparency to distribute rental, utility relief

By: - March 8, 2021

Last December, as North Carolina was hurtling toward an eviction tsunami, a diverse group of stakeholders met to brainstorm policy interventions. Thankfully, a crisis was temporally averted when Congress passed a second Covid-19 relief bill in late December that provided the states with $25 billion in rental assistance and extended the nationwide eviction moratorium.