Mendocino County assistance programs. 

Housing and rent assistance

Mendocino County's Health and Human Service Agency is being awarded almost $1.7 million in federal government  economic recovery funds. The money will be used to help homeless families and individuals who are at risk of losing their housing or being evicted.

These federal government recovery funds will provide wide ranging financial assistance and other services intended to help individuals and families retain and find stable housing in they are in danger of losing their homes, or if they are homeless. The money can be used to provide short- or medium-term rental assistance, housing relocation and stabilization services including mediation, housing search, or outreach programs to property owners, credit repair, help with paying security or utility deposits, utility payments, rental grants and assistance, other homelessness prevention or rapid re-housing activities, and moving cost assistance.

This funding will be targeted at people who may lose their home, traditional homelessness plus people who may be recently homeless due to the housing crisis. In addition to this program, a separate, "neighborhood stabilization" program will also provides funding for people who are in danger of losing housing because of the mortgage credit crisis. Another assistance program from a 2006 voter initiative in California provides additional funding for housing assistance. This recovery act and the funding being provided is new to the state and Mendocino County.

This funding being provided to the county is the largest state allocation of any county in California.