CLEVELAND — They’ve been helping families stay in their homes for years.
"The more folks that we’re able to help keep their rent current, the less people face an eviction and become homeless or have to move really quickly,” said Kate Carden, the director of financial mobility programs at CHN Housing Partners.
The folks at CHN Housing Partners have a clear mission.
"We believe in the power of a permanent address so if someone is able to obtain and then maintain safe and healthy housing that really is the foundation for everything else,” said Carden.
To keep families from being evicted, getting behind on rent or not being able afford security deposits to get into a new place, they give them up to $1,200. On average clients get about $800 of emergency funding.
"Really targeting families that are at risk that have children in school trying to mitigate them moving from school to school to school,” said Carden.
Carden says before the COVID-19 pandemic they got about 10-15 calls per day, now they get around 100.
"Triaging cases as they come through, so that the most urgent cases are going to be the priority and they folks that have a little more time, we can schedule them further out,” she said.
Carden says outside resources have been helping, but she expects the need to still be great in the coming months.
"In April folks fortunately received a stimulus check so a lot of people in April were telling us, you know I think I’ll be OK this month, but I’m not sure moving forward what my situation will look like,” said Carden.
Click here for everything you need to know about checking the status and receiving these payments.
The CDC and the Ohio Department of Health are now recommending the use of cloth face coverings in public to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Read more about the CDC's recommendation here. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to make a face mask from common household materials, without having to know how to sew.
View a global coronavirus tracker with data from Johns Hopkins University.
Here is everything you need to know about testing for coronavirus in Ohio.
Here's a list of things in Northeast Ohio closed due to coronavirus concerns
See complete coverage on our Coronavirus Continuing Coverage page.
The CDC and the Ohio Department of Health are now recommending the use of cloth face coverings in public to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Read more about the CDC's recommendation here. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to make a face mask from common household materials, without having to know how to sew.
View a global coronavirus tracker with data from Johns Hopkins University.
Here is everything you need to know about testing for coronavirus in Ohio.
Here's a list of things in Northeast Ohio closed due to coronavirus concerns
See complete coverage on our Coronavirus Continuing Coverage page.
