San Diego County’s housing authority will stop adding people to its massive waitlist for federal rental assistance on Feb. 20. The list had swelled to nearly 124,000 applicants last month with 27,000 people added to it in the last two years alone despite little hope they’d get benefits soon.
The announcement follows a similar one by the San Diego Housing Commission this month.
A county spokesperson said the decision was made because of “current and projected” federal funding levels that already mean yearslong waits for those awaiting subsidies on the list now…