Los Angeles stops accepting new applicants for Section 8, citing budget uncertainty in Washington
LA TimesThe Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles has stopped accepting new applicants for the Section 8 voucher program that subsidizes rent for tens of thousands of tenants in the city. The Section 8 program, named after a section of the federal Housing Act, is one of the U.S. government’s most powerful tools to keep rental housing affordable and to fight overcrowding and homelessness. Carlos Van Natter, the head of the Section 8 program at L.A.’s housing authority, said proposals from the House and Senate are not expected to be enough to keep up with obligations, leading to annual shortfalls projected to range from nearly $48 million to $114 million. Housing authorities across the country are facing similar issues, but Los Angeles’ funding problem was made worse because last year, under the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development took back $38 million in reserves from the authority to help fund local agencies elsewhere in the country that were then experiencing shortfalls, Van Natter said.
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