Common Rent

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Today, Drew Vernalia, Founder of Common Rent met and talked with Maura Healy, the anticipated new Governor for Massachusetts, at the MACDC annual state convention. We will be following up with her policy director to present our plan to pilot a national affordable housing application system. More info at CommonRentApp.org. Stay tuned. Share with friends.

Using software with verified real world success, we plan to automate and simplify the affordable housing process.

Here are a few highlights of our software:

- Speed of application processing

- More visibility and availability of affordable housing

- Eliminated paper usage, cost savings, less waste

Visit Commonrent.org for more about our mission and how you can contribute.

Follow for more updates about affordable housing and our mission in facilitating family applications to affordable housing through an easy online system

“As schools closed across the country, an estimated 1.5 million school-age children were homeless or in doubled-up living situations. Renters, who are more vulnerable than homeowners, fell behind on their rent: in June 2020, 11.4 million were behind on rent. Low-income renters—many of whom work in the service industries hit hard by the pandemic shutdown—were left with the constant threat of eviction.” (urban.org 7/2021)

The Pandemic revealed something that many of us already know, having a home matters.

At Commonrent, we envision fewer low-income and homeless families.

We aim to make an impact with our software by creating one central place to find, apply for and track all types of affordable housing.

📌 Visit our website https://www.commonrentapp.org for more about how you can contribute to our cause

Follow for more resources, affordable housing updates and our mission in facilitating applications to affordable housing through an easy online system.

Sources: https://www.urban.org

“From the beginning, local governments struggled with administrative headaches. Some cities and states couldn’t distribute rental aid until the legislature wrote a bill to create the program. This was the moment when officials first understood how much different the low-income rental market was from other housing markets.” (Nytimes, 2021)

Applications for aid, housing lotteries and more that go unseen and unprocessed are some of the biggest issues that perpetuate homelessness around the country.

Our mission is to facilitate family applications to affordable housing and administration of applications through an easy to use online system.

We plan to automate and simplify the affordable housing application process with our software.

📌 Visit our website for more about us and how you can contribute to our cause.

Follow for more resources, affordable housing updates and our mission in facilitating applications to affordable housing through an easy online system.

Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/business/evictions-rental-assistance.html