The City of Anaheim is proposing a local rental assistance program for landlords to receive 80 percent of unpaid rent for up to a year, if they agree to waive the remaining 20 percent and not pursue evictions. The rental assistance will provide coverage from April 2020 through March. The rent subsidy program was created for landlords who “are having a hard time paying their mortgages and their debt obligations,” Anaheim spokesperson Mike Lyster told The Epoch Times Feb. 15. Program funds came from a national emergency rental assistance (ERA) program. California received $2.6 billion in funding last Dec. 27 as part of a $25 billion federal rescue package to help those who’ve suffered setbacks from the COVID-19 pandemic. Orange County began distributing nearly $66 million in ERA funds Feb. 1, but some cities—including Anaheim, Santa Ana and Irvine—were exempt from the program to launch their own initiatives. Anaheim will discuss its proposed program through its local housing authority during its Feb. 16 council …