Encinitas announced in February that it would stop taking people off of its 1,137-person waitlist for Section 8 vouchers. That means that for the foreseeable future, no new people in the city will receive rental assistance.
It’s the latest in what has been a domino of closing waitlists for housing vouchers across San Diego County. Most of the people receiving such aid locally get it through the county or the city of San Diego, which both closed their waitlists in February. Carlsbad, Encinitas, National City, Oceanside and San Diego each have their own housing authorities.
An inewsource review found that most housing authorities in San Diego County have either closed their waitlists or stopped accepting people off of their waitlists into housing assistance due to increasing costs of rent subsidies…