Polk County got around $65 million during the first round of emergency rental assistance funding. Iowa Finance Authority says it put out $55 million of rental assistance in the past two years. On Friday, the agency announced an $8 million investment to build new housing for homeless people in Ames. Iowa as a whole is short about 55,000 low-income housing units. The group says as funding decreases, the need continues to rise. It says it gets 50 to 100 rental assistance applications every day. The Iowa finance authority is the agency in charge of allocating the funds. It has ‘ensured that Polk County has the information necessary to apply’ for the national pool of funds. The group said that money could have been allocated directly to Polk and . . .
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