Sec.17-619-3. Program description

(a) The Eviction Prevention Program prevents homelessness through the intervention of trained community-based mediators who use assessment, mediation and, when necessary, rent bank resources, including grants and loans, to keep families in their homes.

(b) The Eviction Prevention Program benefits families by preventing homelessness, improving landlord-tenant relationships, establishing a credit record for families who utilize the loan component, and stabilizing potentially homeless families in permanent housing.

(c) No applicant shall be eligible for grants and/or loans from the rent bank without participation in the assessment and mediation program.

(d) No family shall receive grant assistance under the Eviction Prevention Program in excess of one thousand dollars, nor loan assistance in excess of $1,200 more than once in any eighteen (18) month period beginning with the date of the mediated agreement.

(e) The Eviction Prevention Program is not an entitlement program. Assessment and mediation services, as well as rent bank resources, are contingent upon the availability of funds.

(Effective October 1, 1993)