If you are a tenant and you want to make right on your back rent, and you apply for the Emergency Rental Assistance Program, if your landlord has been trying to get you out, they can refuse, in the majority of programs, to accept your rental assistance and evict you and use that as grounds to evict you.
Ocasio-Cortez highlights issues tenants face with landlords refusing assistance.
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