Applications to the wait list for the Orange County Housing Authority’s housing voucher program will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29.
The federally supported program assists very low-income families, the elderly and people with disabilities in affording housing by covering part of the rent.
For the first time in more than a decade, the county’s Housing Choice Voucher Program waiting list will adding thousands of new eligible households for when vouchers become available. The county said it will fill the list with 12,000 applicants.
The county is funded for 750 vouchers annually, but was recently awarded nearly $1.4 million to support 75 additional vouchers. Reviewing who was on the existing waiting list, officials said they found most were no longer eligible or no longer in need of assistance and the decision was made to refill the list with new applicants.
Income limits for eligibility depend on the number of people in a household, for example $50,250 for an individual, $71,750 for four people and $94,750 for eight people.
Application preference will be given to those living or working in OCHA’s jurisdiction, which includes all cities and unincorporated areas of the county except for the cities of Anaheim, Garden Grove and Santa Ana, which operate their own housing voucher programs. The rental assistance is usable anywhere where a landlord is willing to accept the voucher.
The timing when applications are submitted for the wait list will not affect one’s position. Preference will also go to applicants in this order: veterans, the elderly, people with disabilities and families. Once applications are grouped into these categories, a lottery will be held within each category until 12,000 applicants are placed on the wait list.
Notifications will be sent to applicants two to three months after all 12,000 applications have been reviewed.
Applications can be submitted in one of three ways: Online at waitlistcheck.com/CA1288, mailed to…
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