Lessons from Eight States Regarding Factors That Have Contributed to States’ ERA1 Spending Rates
In this report prepared for NCSHA, Abt Associates examined states’ Emergency Rental Assistance spending rates and factors that have affected those rates. In July 2021, Abt interviewed ERA program staff from eight states selected to reflect programs that differed in several ways, including in geographic and population diversity, the sizes of the ERA1 allocations they received, and their ERA1 spending rates as of May 2021.