Info Regarding the Section 8 Housing Program in the Citty of Los Angeles

There is a Waiting List for THE SECTION 8 HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

 

The Section 8 Housing Assistance Program provides a federally-funded housing-assistance payment ("Section 8 voucher") to eligible families and individuals. Rather than being provided with a specific unit at a subsidized housing site, Section 8 participant-tenants are free to use their voucher to locate and contract for housing from a network of participating landlords throughout the Los Angeles area.

• The Section 8 Program opened for registrations from September 15, 1998 through October 1, 1998. After receiving 150,000 registrations, a computerized lottery was conducted to assign each registrant a place on our new waiting list.
• There is a waiting list for Section 8 rental assistance because there are many more extremely low and very low-income families eligible to participate in the Section 8 Program than can be assisted with the money Congress provides. In Los Angeles, HUD estimates that only one in ten eligible families (10%) receives rental assistance.
• Section 8 rental assistance and public housing assistance are not "entitlement" programs like other assistance programs such as Social Security where a person is entitled to receive Social Security retirement benefits with no waiting when he/she reachs age 62.
• Section 8 and public housing assistance are domestic "discretionary" programs, The discretionary spending budget is subject to spending cuts, competing priorities, and Congressional budget cuts. Discretionary programs receive only the amount of money Congress provides for them.
• If you have any questions, change of information, or concerns regarding your registration, you must write to:

Section 8 Applications & Contracting
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles

FOY Station, Post Office Box 17965-0965

Los Angeles, CA 90017-0965

• The Housing Authority has no city residency requirement. However, eligible applicants who live outside city limits must move to and live within the Los Angeles city limits for the first year of the contract.

SECTION 8 REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED

Due to a lack of Federal funding, the Housing Authority City of Los Angeles is closed for new registrations for the Section 8 Program and is not issuing any new vouchers at this time. If you have already registered and need to report a change of address, or if you have any other changes or questions, please submit them in writing to: Section 8 Registrations, Housing Authority City of Los Angeles, Foy Station, P.O. Box 17965-0965, Los Angeles, California 90017-0965 or you can send it via fax to (213) 252-1218. Please include 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. your name, registration number, address (old and new address if you are changing your address) social security number, and date of birth.  The Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles (HACoLA) HACoLA is the county version of the program written about previously; according to their web-site they “empower families by providing clean, safe and decent affordable housing for low-income families, seniors, and disabled persons.  The Housing Authority manages more than 3,600 units of public and other affordable housing at 70 sites throughout Los Angeles County. http://www.hacla.org/section8/home.htm Through HACoLA, the CDC helps more than 20,000 low-income families and senior citizens find affordable housing with private landlords through the federal Section 8 program.   http://www.lacdc.org/CDCWebsite/HA/Home.aspx

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List of Ethinc Specific Social Services Agencies Includes website and phone numbers

 Ethnicity Specific Social Services Organizations

This list is by no means meant to be complete.  It is a short and general guide.  If you have additional resources to include, please let me know and if I forgot to add an ethnic group I apologize.

Almost all of the social services organizations will have people who speak Spanish in order to serve their clients, but here are a couple of resources that are Spanish/ Latino specific: 

Spanish Resource Organization http://www.latinoresource.org/about.html

Latino Resource Organization  610 California Ave.  Venice, CA. 90291

Phone:      310.578.6069

Fax:          310.578.0490

www.latinoresource.org

 

Child & Family Services  815 El Centro Ave., Los Angeles, CA
1 (855) 272 4458

www.emqff.org

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Services for children who are mentally & emotionally troubled

Watts Labor Action Committee

10950 S. Central Ave.  Watts, CA 90059

Phone: (323) 563-5639
 http://www.wlcac.org/contact.htm             Email: wlcac09@gmail.com

 WLAC offers services for African Americans:    Youth and Family services, Employment services, transportation, homeless services, senior services, handy worker projects to name a few.

FAME - First African Methodist Episcopal Church

www.famechurch.org

2270 South Harvard Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90018

(323) 730-9199

FAME offers services for African Americans:  Free Legal Clinic, Social Services, food pantry, exercise programs, help with foster care and adoptions, financial literacy program.  This is a very large 19,000 + membership and very active in their community.You +1'd this publicly. Undo

Little Tokyo Service Center

www.ltsc.org

G-106, 231 E 3rd St   Los Angeles, CA 90013
(213) 473-3030

All Asian Pacific Islanders languages, including Mandarin and Cantonese

Chinatown Service Center

http://www.cscla.org

They have a youth center and provide child care, social services, senior services, and affordable housing.  Several offices around the county:

Main Office
767 N. Hill Street, Suite 400
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 808-1700
Fax: (213) 680-0787

Armenian Relief Society of Western USA, Inc.

517 W. Glenoaks, Blvd. Glendale, CA 91202

Telephone:  (818) 500-1343  Fax:  (818) 242-3732

http://www.arswestusa.org

Offers:  youth services, day care, after school programs, senior services, counseling services, assistance to survivors of disasters, tuition assistance to students attending Armenian schools and scholarships for college.

Korean American Family Service Center

3727 West 6th Street, Suite 320
Los Angeles, CA 90020
(Corner of Harvard and 6th)

Telephone  (213) 389-6755         Fax  (213) 389-5172

http://www.kafscla.org

Iranian /Farsi speaking services:

          Iranian Jewish Senior Center

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Iranian Jewish Senior Center. Address: 8764 W Olympic Blvd Los Angeles CA 90035; Phone: (310) 652-3555.

 
YARAN:

 www.jfsla.org  (877) 275-4537

Yaran serves all Persian speaking individuals, and provides services including social service information and referral, family/mental health issues, domestic violence counseling, substance abuse counseling, and domestic violence assistance.

Vietnamese

Vietnamese American Chamber of Commerce Of Orange County 
16511 Brookhurst Street, Suite B
Fountain Valley, CA 92708

PHONE:
714-775-6050 office
888-308-9730 fax

http://vacoc.com/index.php

CONTACT BY E-MAIL:
Info@vacoc.com    

                                        Also see Little Tokyo Service Center above listing

Russian Speaking Community

City of West Hollywood: 

8300 Santa Monica Blvd. West Hollywood, CA 90069

Telephone:  (323) 848- 6400 ask to speak to the Russian Outreach Coordinator.

http://www.weho.org/index.aspx?page=869

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