Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, federal housing officers developed a brand new program in hopes of getting homeless residents off the streets extra shortly. The voucher effort, which pays the lion’s share of a tenant’s hire, can be simple for tenants to make use of and supply beneficiant incentives to landlords. In some instances, landlords and property managers might obtain bonuses of $7,000 merely for permitting one in every of these new voucher holders to dwell of their unit.
On this episode of “Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Disaster Podcast,” we focus on why Los Angeles has struggled to accommodate individuals underneath this program, regardless of the loosened restrictions and huge want for homeless housing. L.A. had solely used about 6% of the greater than 3,000 vouchers it had obtained as of final month. Our visitor is Jack Lahey, director of homeless providers on the Neighborhood Motion Partnership of San Luis Obispo County, which has had a lot higher success with the voucher program than L.A.
“Gimme Shelter,” a biweekly podcast that appears at why it’s so costly to dwell in California and what the state can do about it, options Liam Dillon, who covers housing affordability points for the Los Angeles Occasions, and Manuela Tobías, housing reporter for CalMatters.
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