Formerly homeless residents in Orange County could lose their subsidized housing as federal funding for rental assistance dries up.
Rose and Orlando Villegas have been off the streets and living with their teenage daughter in a Stanton apartment for six years. Both are battling cancer but have been able to make ends meet through the federal rental assistance program.
“Me and my husband, both of our incomes, we get $2,500 only a month,” Renee Villegas said. “With our rent of $2,000 now, we have to come up with that ourselves. We have nothing left to survive on.”…