Sarpy County organization makes difficult calls as Emergency Rental Assistance Program ends in Nebraska

SARPY COUNTY, Neb. (KMTV) — A day of inauspicious telephone calls.

“These are all of the telephone calls we have now to make as we speak to inform households that it is October and your hire will not be getting paid,” Tanya Gifford, govt director of Elevate Up Sarpy County, mentioned.

A couple of month in the past, the state instructed Elevate Up Sarpy County they’d obtain over one million {dollars} from the Emergency Rental Help Program.

And a few week in the past they discovered that cash would not be coming.

“Proper now it’s numerous disbelief. Quite a lot of these individuals have already gotten rental help in months previous to this, so they only by no means would have anticipated to be instructed per week earlier than October that their hire wasn’t going to receives a commission for this month,” Gifford mentioned.

Placing their shoppers in contact with different assets has been troublesome.

“We’re all in the identical boat, we had been all making use of for these housing stability funds and so after I say it is troublesome only for our shoppers, it is troublesome for all of the companies inside Sarpy County,” Gifford mentioned.

Elevate Up Sarpy County has helped greater than 50 working households and people from these impacted by the 2019 floods to COVID-19 and it is not particular to 1 space of Sarpy County.

Come November first many might face homelessness.

“We wouldn’t have any shelters and we have no kind of transitional low-income reasonably priced housing obtainable in any respect proper now,” Gifford mentioned.

Which means many might discover their strategy to Douglas County. Steve Frazee with Open Door Missions mentioned they’re prepared.

“We’re ready to assist individuals like we all the time have, and to do this, we by no means stopped being ready,” Frazee mentioned.

A corporation that helps individuals on their worst days, now feeling considerably helpless themselves.

“In a time the place, I imply the group has actually got here collectively over the previous two years. It simply feels hopeless proper now, as a result of we do not have sufficient assets to repair this,” Gifford mentioned.

Elevate Up Sarpy County mentioned the one assist it may supply is to help these households by way of the eviction course of.

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