Quake-Relief Rent Funding Extended
Ventura County residents who are still recovering from the 1994 Northridge earthquake have received some good news: Officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency have extended the deadline for those receiving disaster relief rental funds.
FEMA representatives pushed the Jan. 17 deadline back three months to give quake victims more time either to find affordable housing or move back into homes that are being rebuilt or refurbished because of structural damage. Quake damage occurred in the Conejo Valley, Fillmore, Piru and Simi Valley.
“This program is essential to individual homeowners, especially condominium owners, and to the economic well-being of our area, which is continuing to suffer severe financial distress as a result of this disaster,” said Rep. Anthony C. Beilenson, a Democrat who represents the Conejo Valley along with Woodland Hills, Malibu and the Las Virgenes area in Los Angeles County.
Beilenson had earlier lobbied FEMA to extend the deadline because he said many condominium and single-family homeowners in his district still needed the aid.
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