Several thousand people in San Diego living with HIV/AIDS have applied to receive housing assistance vouchers and been placed on a growing waitlist for a program that has been at capacity for two years now.
Factors such as high housing costs, a shortage of affordable housing and limited funding for housing aid have contributed to the hold up, according to San Diego County spokesperson Tim McClain.
This story came from notes taken by Thomas Vedder, a San Diego Documenter, at a Joint City/County HIV Housing Committee meeting last month. The Documenters program trains and pays community members to document what happens at public meetings. Read the note here.…