I received a notice, as a Santa Ana Housing & Redevelopment Commissioner, that “The Housing Authority of the City of Santa Ana will be accepting applications for the Housing Choice Voucher Rental Assistance Program from October 1 to November 30, 2007.”
This program accepts applications from those who are undocumented. As long as some of those in their households are documented residents or U.S. citizens they can receive housing vouchers. The vouchers will be prorated and will apply to those who are documented residents.
Preference is given to those who live or work in Santa Ana, but others can apply as well. I understand that you can only apply for this program every two years, so if you know someone who has a low income and could use housing payment assistance, be sure to let them know about this opportunity.
Completed applications will be accepted BY MAIL ONLY to P.O. Box 22030, Santa Ana, CA 92702-2030. Applications must be post-marked on or before November 30, 2007. Late submissions will not be accepted.
Income limits for the Housing Choice Voucher Rental Assistance Program are:
Household Members Income Limits:
- $30,300
- $34,650
- $38,950
- $43,300
- $46,750
- $50,250
- $53,700
- $57,150
Applications will be available beginning October 1, 2007 at the following locations:
- Santa Ana City Hall
- Santa Ana Public Libraries
- Santa Ana Community Centers/Senior Centers
- Local social service agencies, including but not limited to:
- AIDS Services Foundation
- Fair Housing Council
- Health Care Agency / 17th Street Clinic
- Latino Health Access
- Mental Health Agency
- Mexican American Opportunity Foundation
- Santa Ana College
- Santa Ana WORK Center
- Vietnamese Community Center
Applications will also be available for printing on the City
Why do I have to subsidize housing for illegals? Why are illegals entitled to receive these vouchers? How is that even legal? These are questions you should be asking, Art.
Who’s office is the Vietnamese Service Center. Is this The Van Tran Office or the Janet Nguyen Office? I thought Janet’s office is going to have these and her office is for all constituents!
you wonder why califronia is so mesed up . we keep on pandering to illegals . THEY ARE ILLEGALS they should not get nothing they dont belong here . ice should come down and sweep this place if any illegals are living there . i agree with .1
Sad thing about section 8 is that the Vietnamise know how to work the systom (Go to one of these buildings with lots of them and check out the demographics) and yet Latinos and other groups are left in the dust.
why not give these vouchers to the us citizens that are homeless, some who are veterans, what a slap in the face. Art, why dont you fight for them! Oh I see there not illegal. you have got to be the most hypicrital person but then agoin look at who you admire! Amin and Lopez. I live in this city and everyday see going down the majority by our own people. How do you expect anyone to appreciate anything when its given to them. And where is this money coming from? Why dont you go to Mexico and fight for the millions who are poor over there, who dont have a voice for them. There are poor and rich mexicans in Mexico, no middle class. The rich mexicans will not help the poor ones, it the gringos that will step up to that plate, so I dont know how you can call any one racists when its thier own kind thats bringing them down. And here we go again, with this voucher.
The contempt and anger for the written word ILLEGAl is astounding.The word is written in this blog and the responses angrily focus on it.The message of the voucher announcement is that this is an opportunity for documented immigrants and CITIZENS which qualify by household income.The announcement clearly states that the vouchers will be prorated and will apply to those that are documented residents.The announcement states that the program accepts applications from those that are undocumented.Presumably these applications from the undocumented are on behalf of legal residents,U.S. CITIZENS and not for themselves.This program is not only for immigrants illegal or not, nor only for Mexicans.The criteria is-legal residents or U.S.CITIZENS with economic need.This includes the Homeless,Veterans, Black,green, white, yellow and any other color resident that qualifies(a legal resident in economic need that summits an application).Art Pedroza blogged a public service announcement for all of those that qualify.He was not beign exclusive.The blinding anger and prejudice is frightening.
in arts article he writes undocumented for anyone else i suppose he means veterans its “others”. I see where his priorities are, and he will NEVER speak or represent me and other fellow mexican americans in santana who feel the way i do.
#7,
you read things in Art’s public announcemnet that are not there.The announcement in the first place is from the Housing Authority of the City of Santa Ana.Art was simply presenting their opportunity to it’s residents.Get mad at the Housing Authority if you must be mad at some one.Art’s priority in this case is to adviced all residents of an opportunity offered by the Housing Authority of the City of Santa Ana.Where do you get from this blog thread that he is speaking for some group and againts you and your fellow Mexican Americans that feel like you do? I am not sure, probably neither does Art P. , know what your group’s feelings are.
Dr. Lomeli,
Exactly! People don’t seem to realize that this program is federally funded. It only applies to legal residents, but those who don’t have legal residence can still apply, and the funds are allocated only to those in their household who do have legal residency, such as children born here in the U.S.
This is a good program – the real problem is that there is not enough decent affordable housing stock in Santa Ana. We lead the county in blighted stock, but need to do more to add decent housing for those with low incomes.
Instead, our city leaders have helped attract close to 3,000 new housing units…that range from expensive to luxury. What a joke!
But the joke is on us. If we don’t take care of our working poor, then we ought not be surprised by the resulting increase in violence.