Emergency Rental Assistance 2 (ERA2)

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The City partnered with the area’s Continuum of Care (CoC), the Treasure Coast Homeless Services Council, Inc. (TCHSC), to administer the final phase of the Emergency Rental Assistance 2 (ERA2) program. A total of $400,000 in grant funds will be used to provide emergency rental assistance to individuals experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk of homelessness in the Port St. Lucie area through the ERA2 Rapid-Rehousing Program. An imminent risk of homelessness is defined as an individual or family that is facing a loss of housing within 14 days, often under eviction.

This program seeks to connect individuals and families experiencing homelessness with stable, permanent housing solutions. Rapid Rehousing programs can provide supportive services such as housing stabilization case management, housing navigation, referrals and tenant-based rental assistance to help participants successfully transition into permanent housing.

The $400,000 grant will be available to assist program participants until the funds are exhausted or by Sept. 30, 2025, whichever comes first.

The Rapid Re-housing Program (“RRH”) provides a process to assist households that meet the Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) definition of homeless with services to enable their return to permanent housing and/or retain housing that they are at risk of losing due to financial stress.

The RRH services include:

  1. Housing Stabilization Case Management
  2. Housing Navigation
  3. Referral to supportive services
  4. Tenant-based rental assistance

First and second month’s rent, rental security deposit and utility security deposit will be provided as part of the assistance for approved applicants and depending on individual household circumstances. Additional services that may be provided are housing stabilization case management, housing navigation, referral to supportive services and tenant-based rental assistance.

Current Status: Closed

The City began accepting applications on February 14, 2025, at 9 a.m. and remained open until funding was fully allocated on May 23, 2025.

The TCHSC is the entity responsible for application intake if you are interested in applying for the program you may contact them directly by calling (772) 213-9040.

Eligibility

You must meet eligibility criteria to qualify for the program. Eligibility is based on Section 3201 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Pub. L. No. 117-2:

  1. One or more individuals within the household has qualified for unemployment benefits or a reduction in income, incurred significant costs, or experienced other financial hardship during or due, directly, or indirectly, to the coronavirus pandemic.
  2. One or more individuals within the household can demonstrate a risk of homelessness or housing instability.
  3. The household is a low-income family (as defined in section 3(b) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 a(b)).
    1. Priority will be given to households that are very low-income.

Federal Area Median Income (AMI) Limits: St. Lucie County 2024

Household Size 1 2 3 4 5

50% AMI

$32,100

$36,700

$41,300

$45,850

$49,550

80% AMI

$51,350

$58,700

$66,050

$73,350

$79,250

*if your gross total household income (before taxes), is more than the amount listed, under 80% AMI, for your household size, please do not apply, as you will not qualify for the program.

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