After staging a lottery for the first time in five years, the Los Angeles Housing Authority has selected 30,000 winners for its Section 8 rental assistance program waitlist.
- How many people applied for the lottery? HACLA received 223,375 lottery applications. This represents a 19% increase since the last lottery in 2017. That increase shows that the growing number of Angelenos needing housing assistance outpaces the available federal funds, according to a spokesperson from the agency.
- Who was selected? The 30,000 slots went to people who live or work in the city of Los Angeles, including households with veterans. For the lucky few who’ve secured a spot on the waitlist, the road to finding an affordable apartment likely remains a long one.
- What’s next: All applicants will receive an email informing them whether or not they got a spot on the waitlist. Starting today, applicants can also check their status at hacla.hcvlist.org or by calling (877) 621-7328 TTY 711.
Susan johnson says:
They say that we can get help ASAP because we are domestic violence victims but no one help us it like they don’t care it is so hard for us we are all ways moving because of are abusers that are still out there because not all of them go to jail I just want to know when are we going to get some help they say that we can get money to move some were else but that not true I ask and didn’t get the help I need for me and my soni want my son to have a life for ones .Susan .
Richmondca says:
If it’s like Bay Area then 98% of all winners are family to section 8 employees
Al Dominguez says:
The ONLY solution is Rent Control! It is time to RISE UP, as a community, as a City, as a State, as a Country! Its time to RISE UP against American Greed destroying us all!!!
Ovsanna susan kalfaian says:
Hi my name is Ovsanna Susan if people like me if they don’t have home and they don’t have job and they get SSDI and they can’t afford to pay or rent apartment that much money they get every single month how they go to survive to leave in and they become to homeless on the street leave in and and people who has they own home to leave in but they apply section 8 and those people they can’t ?specialy me I leave in my car in this cold weather and apply to section eight and now I’m not getting nothing but why who’s is the more important those people who leave in on the street or those people who they own place to leave in but they get the section eight I like to no ……