Huge renter turnout for DOC workshop on fed rental assistance
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Renters who are eligible for the federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) will not ‘handle’ the funds, if their applications are approved, but instead

![Part of the large crowd of residents who attended last Friday’s Commerce Department tenant-workshop to explain the new federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) at the Malaeimi Stake Center hall of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [photo: FS] Large crowd at one of the DOC sponsored rental assistance workshop](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/doc_n_renters_6516.jpg?itok=7OzF0jju)





![On October 20, 2021, MJ Apelu-Moetala met with Gov Lemanu Peleti Mauga to discuss making his dreams of becoming a future governor of American Samoa a reality. [courtesy photo] The governor with MJ Apelu-Moetala](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/gov_meets_aspiring_politician_copy.png?itok=R9fI6QMF)


