“Nearly 1.5 million families helped is meaningful progress, but the overall rate of spending emergency rental assistance remains too low.”

Diane Yentel, CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, regarding states’ disbursement of $46.5 billion allotted for federal rental assistance. Distribution in August increased to 16.5 percent of the available funds, or $2.3 billion, an increase of 4.4 percent from July. (Associated Press — September 24, 2021)