A story the Observer published Thursday headlined "Dallas County Is About To Lose $17 Million in Unspent Federal Relief Funds" was, in a nutshell, wrong. We apologize.
We've removed the original story from our site. It was based on out-of-date information from housing advocacy group Texas Housers, but the error was ours. Texas Housers had updated its report, but we failed to find the new information. Both Texas Housers and Dallas County Health & Human Services, which oversees the county's rent relief effort, contacted us to let the know the story was wrong.
The story stated that a deadline for the county to spend federal funds to assist renters affected by the COVID pandemic was fast approaching and the county could be required to return $17 million in unspent funding. All of the federal money from the program to the county has either been spent or obligated to help renters. The story also incorrectly suggested the county's effort to publicize the program to renters was inadequate. Dr. Philip Huang, director of Dallas County Health & Human Services, points out that the county not only made extensive efforts to publicize the program through the media, it also took innovative steps to ensure that renters facing eviction knew of the program's availability.
"We were the ones who put people into the [justice of the peace] courts to help people to try to avoid evictions," Huang said.
Here, in DCHHS words, is the correct information:
1. The article states that “Dallas...
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