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Federal Hiring Assistance Program Funds to preserve the most vulnerable people accommodated during the Covid-19 pandemic More Thousands of Californians living on the street immediately after next yearS
Calm Ben Christopher He explains that the Emergency Housing Vouchers program began in 2021, helping 60,000 people in the United States pay their rent. Participants included people on the threshold of homelessness, running away from domestic violence or avoiding trafficking in human beings. About 15,000 Californians are in the emergency program.
The program was to be temporary: the Congress financed it with a one -time $ 5 billion, and the US Housing and Urban Development Ministry had until 2030 to spend all the money.
But earlier this month the Federal Housing Department sent a letter Local public residential authorities informing them that the final payment in the spring may allow some agencies to retain their emergency programs until 2026. However, “there will be no additional funding from HUD.”
Rental prices are one of the potential reasons why program funds are exhausted. After the pandemic, the rents grew across the country. Between 2021 and 2025, for example, “rents in fair markets” in a neighborhood in San Diego, reduced by 43%, almost doubled the total inflation rate during the same period, according to the department.
In the meantime, the incomes remained stagnant. As the voucher program pays the difference between the tenant’s income and their rent, the government had to pay more.
The upcoming end of the program comes when President Donald Trump’s administration makes aggressive redundancies to the federal bureaucracy. The administration is considering Mass cuts in the federal residential accommodation department and terminated grants for programs that impose laws on fair housingS
- Dream GurizorrA political analyst of the National Association of Housing Employees and the reconstruction: “We must think of a way to save this program and make sure that these people continue to receive federal assistance for rent.
California’s housing crisis, explained: CalMatters has detailed glances Why are the homes so expensive in California and Why homelessness is so constantS There is also a version ready for the lesson for these explanators and other information-especially made for teachers, libraries and groups of the community-such as part of Calmatters to learn Initiative, with Spanish translations.
Calletatters events: Calmatters will host a symposium on April 16 for the mental health crisis among California young people. Sign up here To be present personally at the Nixon Piibodi office in Los Angeles.
Other stories you need to know
CA Crime Fund shortage of CA
Established 60 years ago, the California Victim Compensation Council provides financial assistance to victims of crimes and their families for expenses, including funeral expenses, loss of income and mental health services.
But survivors and defenders say that on board Strict criteria exclude too many peopleand the victim of those already injured by violence, Calmatters’ reports Kayla MihalovichS
In the last state budget year, the Council refused 9 326 applications, approximately one quarter of all candidates. Attracting a solution takes 325 days to finish on average – far longer than the six -month processing time required by law.
The Council must also offer personally evidentiary hearing. But a recent court order-a three-year court battle-says that for more than a decade the Council has been under an invalid rule, which allows it to limit the hearing to a written record.
For Ruby Marihalar, whose son was stabbed to death in 2012, the board twice refused to help pay funeral expenses without meeting her at all.
- Marihalar: “They did not pick up a cursed finger to help me.
The board is now struggling to break through its way through the backlog: it has recently wanted to spend an additional $ 4.4 million in handling thousands of appeals by hiring more employees.
The next move of the CA Republicans
With the intermediate elections that came in 2026, Republicans in California are trying to use the inertia they received in November to help them Climb your way from being a supermistorism party in the country.
Calm Jean Quang He explains that the California GoP threw three places into the legislature and increased the share of Trump’s votes in almost every county. But in order to have more words, for example, negotiations for a state budget, the party must take at least seven places in the Assembly and four in the Senate.
How do they plan to do this? In the same way they made a foundation in the last six years: Focus on Latin American voters; Taking on democratic policies responsible for the crime of the state and the problems of living costs; and campaign on voting initiatives as they did with Proposal 36S
But one big question is Trump. The success of the Republican Party in California is due in part by avoiding associations with Trump, a long -time GOP consultant said. Although it connects with it, it can be detrimental to the average deadlines, the party leadership also admitted that Trump’s loyalists should support.
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California voices
CalMatters columnist Dan Walters: Medi-Cal budget shortage and money to recover wild fire on Los Angeles County suggest that the “modest surplus” of Gavin Newsom governor, designed in January, will Morph in a deficit to review MayS
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