Everett Matters Covid Aid Application

Mayor Carlo DeMaria is pleased to announce that starting today the city will provide rental assistance, mortgage assistance and emergency housing assistance to Everett residents who need it.

The City of Everett is using CARES Act funding to provide food assistance, rental assistance, legal aid, or emergency housing assistance to Everett residents in need.

Those who have received mortgage/rental relief from the Commonwealth, such as RAFT, are not eligible to receive additional housing benefits through this program.

For housing assistance, the City of Everett is partnering with ABCD to use a portion of the City’s CARES Act funding to provide financial relief to residents and families that are in immediate danger of losing housing due to financial hardship created by the pandemic.
The City will refer approved applicants to ABCD, who will contact those residents and work with them to have checks issued directly to the tenant’s landlord or to the homeowner’s mortgage company.
The City anticipates that if applicants provide ABCD with all the information they need on the application, residents will have a rent or mortgage payment made within a week of the process starting with ABCD.
The City will provide up to $5,000 per individual resident or up to $10,000 in assistance for families. Applications will be processed on a first come, first served basis until the City has exhausted the $1.3M in relief funds.