Mid-Columbia Housing Authority will receive just over $95,000 in grants to help with tenant based rental assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic. The offices of Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley say The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and. Economic Security Act provided $1.25 billion nationally for tenant-based rental assistance, which funds the housing choice voucher program, including $400 million for increased subsidy costs and $850 million for administrative and other expenses incurred by public housing authorities. Twenty-one public housing authorities throughout Oregon will receive more than $5.7 million in grants.