Rental relief payments are going out

As of Wednesday morning, nearly half of the 118 Petersburg applications for financial help with rent and utilities had been approved or were pending a final decision, according to the state agency running the federally funded program.

Stacy Barnes, AHFC Director, Governmental Relations & Public Affairs emailed the Pilot that 52 of the applications had been approved and $94,192 has been paid to Petersburg landlords and utility companies. The Alaska Housing Finance Corp. received about 30,000 applications for assistance from across the state for $200 million in federal pandemic relief funds avai...