‘Quiet Panic,’ Says San Diego Advocate, as Rental Assistance Program Set to Run Out of Cash

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A $5 billion pot of federal money set aside to help people on the verge of homelessness pay the rent is running out of cash, and no one has a plan to keep the roughly 60,000 renters — more than 15,000 of them in California — from losing their housing after the last dollar is spent.

News of the imminent expiration of the Emergency Housing Voucher program came in a March 6 letter the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development sent to local public housing authorities, the agencies that administer federal rental housing assistance programs…

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