$29 million spent and 3,300 families helped. That was what the Wichita Emergency Rental Assistance program accomplished in the 18 months it was active. City Housing Director Sally Stang sums up the response to WERAP pretty simply, “There was tremendous demand.” However, the program is ending. Stang says the city is no longer accepting any new applications and will be paying out its final few months of rent checks through the end of the year. The reason for such a popular program getting shut down? It ran out of funding.
Source: KAKE – News
