Los Angeles tenants and housing rights organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), the largest public housing authority in the nation, which, among other things, administers affordable housing and rental assistance programs for low-income, homeless and disabled residents.
The lawsuit filed by the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) and the Law Office of Autumn Elliott alleged that HACLA wrongfully terminated Section 8 vouchers without fair warning, representing a pattern of due process violations that put families at risk of eviction and homelessness.
Section 8 housing, officially the Housing Choice Voucher Program, is a federal program that provides rental assistance for low-income families across the United States. Eligibility is based on income limits and family size set by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and it is administered by local public housing authorities like HACLA…