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Dec. 29—For the first time in nearly a decade, the Housing Authority of the County of Kern will reopen its Housing Choice Voucher program for new applicants next month. Commonly known as Section ...
Permanent, federally funded housing came into being in the United States as a part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Title II, Section 202 of the National Industrial Recovery Act, passed June 16, 1933, directed the Public Works Administration (PWA) to develop a program for the "construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair under public regulation or control of low-cost housing and slum ...
The San Diego Housing Commission currently owns 2,221 affordable housing units and plans to expand that number in the future to meet the growing demand. [60] In 2009, the San Diego Housing Commission implemented a finance plan that created 810 more units of affordable rental housing through leveraging the equity of its owned properties.
In a novel bid to generate more affordable housing, Kern County is converting empty churches and blighted strip malls into apartment units for former foster youths at risk of homelessness.
Dec. 13—Kern County continues to struggle with its state-mandated plan to identify and allocate sites for future high-density housing. The Department of Housing and Community Development ...
A housing shortage has recurred and apparently reached the crisis stage. In a 2014 California treatise on real estate development, the authors opined that "[C]ommunities across California continue to confront the challenge posed by a scarcity of housing, particularly of affordable housing. In the last several decades, housing production in the ...
Source of income discrimination describes when landlords refuse to rent to tenants using housing vouchers or other government assistance.Housing advocates argue the practice keeps vulnerable communities from accessing housing, although landlords point to lack of protections for tenants as their right to refuse service.
Jun. 27—A recent uptick in homebuilding helps but Kern continues to suffer from a housing stock failing to keep up with demand. A new study ranks the county's housing growth middle-of-the-pack ...