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Rental Assistance Good for One More Month

Rental Assistance Good for One More Month

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Those people that depend on rental assistance from the Yankton Housing and Redevelopment Commission will see one more month of those benefits.
Executive Director Ann Horton says it’s a question beyond that…

The Housing Commission receives their Section Eight rent assistance from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has been closed since late December.

Horton says she has been working with landlords and owners..

Horton says her office doesn’t have any reserves to carry renters beyond February…

Horton says they have about one hundred fifty families that use the rental assistance.

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