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Program assisted more than 4,500 Wayne County residents

Wayne County's Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) will close its application portal on Tuesday, November 15,

2022, after more than a year of helping thousands of Wayne County residents. ERAP was launched in September 2021,

in the middle of the pandemic after receiving an allocation of $32 million for rental assistance from the federal American

Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).

"The economic impact of COVID-19 has had a severe effect on many of our residents; disproportionately impacting

renter households. Losing your home is one of the m...