About 4,000 Snohomish County tenants approved for rent help

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EVERETT — Since April, roughly 4,000 Snohomish County tenants have been approved for help with rent bills. However, frontline case workers with the county’s Dispute Resolution Center are still working through about 6,000 applications.

“It is getting faster to work through the cases,” said Galina Volchkova, who oversees Volunteers of America’s Homelessness Prevention Team at the Dispute Resolution Center.

Volchkova said the average payment per household is somewhere between $8,000 or $10,000. When applicants call 2-1-1, housing navigators with the Dispute Resolution Center walk people through the application process.

“They just need to call 2-1-1 to complete the screening,” Volchkova said. “Then there will be a way to access services.”

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[dutch777]

1. Good to see some progress but I worry about folks in dysfunctional states like MO, AL, etc.

WA has relatively capable governance. A third or more of the states cannot say that and standing up a new process, even though there is money to do so, seems almost beyond their capabilities (and maybe just plain counter to their aversity to anything like government help to the needy).