Junchang Tan felt the weight lift from his shoulders the day he moved out of the around-100-square-foot, single-room-occupancy hotel room he had shared with his wife and children for nearly a decade.
Yet, just three years after seeing his family featured in a national news report for upgrading from the cramped residential hotel with the help of a pandemic-era fund, he found himself back at square one.
The federal Emergency Housing Voucher Program, which helped Tan move to an apartment with enough space for his family of four, is ending sooner than planned. Funding intended to last 10 years is expected to dry up this year after just five…