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Real estate agents got $3.9 billion in Covid relief PPP loans. The housing market boomed, but few repaid the loans.
While Covid was battering the U.S. economy, Gary Goldberg seems to have done OK. During 2020, the pandemic’s first year, the Santa Barbara, California, real estate agent sold more than $27 million worth of luxury homes, slightly down from the $31 million he closed the year before, according to data from Zillow. In 2021, he sold $82 million worth of real estate. He also applied for and received two loans totaling $95,832 via the federal government’s Covid relief Paycheck Protection Program, according to public records. In his applications, he listed one employee. He asked for the first loan on April 15, 2020, and the second on Jan. 30, 2021. Federal records show…
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Gov. Wolf Calls on General Assembly to Invest in Older Pennsylvanians, Individuals with Disabilities Through Property Tax Relief Program
Governor Tom Wolf was joined by Representative Steve Samuelson to contact on Pennsylvania’s Republican-led Basic Assembly to quickly use $1.7 billion in unspent American Rescue System Act bucks to assist older Pennsylvanians and people with disabilities by way of house tax rebates to recuperate from the COVID-19 pandemic. “We know that a whole lot of Pennsylvania households are even now recovering economically from the pandemic, and that is particularly real for small-cash flow households,” explained Gov. Wolf. “Today, I am yet again asking the Typical Assembly to spend the federal funding that is nevertheless sitting down, unused, to make improvements to the life of Pennsylvanians. By investing additional funds into…
