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The Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) has released $80.6 million in federal rental assistance funds to five metro Atlanta counties — Fulton, DeKalb, Henry, Clayton, and Hall — that have already spent their own federal funds to help tenants facing eviction, with thousands more seeking aid.

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State agency turns over $80 million in unspent rental assistance funds to metro Atlanta counties with thousands of applicants

Restoration of “uninhabitable” Forest Cove apartments can’t happen without tax credits, owner says

Renters, activists protest state rental aid program’s shortcomings at DCA official’s Buckhead home

State agency will release $80 million in unspent federal rent aid to “high performing” local governments

Fulton County processed 80% of recent rental assistance applications, while tens of thousands still await aid from state

Still chipping away at backlog, state denies almost half of rental assistance applicants

With federal say-so, state could yield federal rental aid money to local agencies early next year

While state agency lags, local governments dish out rental aid fast

Slow-spending Georgia agency says it will transfer some federal rent aid to higher-performing governments

National group calls Georgia’s rental assistance program “one of the worst in the country”