Affordable housing, such as Section 8 and public housing, is available, but it often requires navigating applications and government agencies. Here's what you need to know.

The biggest federal housing program for low-income Californians is failing to help many because there aren’t enough landlords who accept Section 8 vouchers for rent. State lawmakers are ...

As California struggles with a crisis in affordable housing, state lawmakers are trying to improve a severe shortage of housing available to renters who have federal Section 8 vouchers. The vouchers ...

California Sen. Holly J. Mitchell, who authored the Section 8 bill, says this is a form of housing discrimination. “If CalFresh recipients were denied food we would cry foul.

One in two Fresno, California Section 8 voucher holders can’t find a place to live because there aren’t enough landlords who accept them. State lawmakers are consideringa bill to help the ...

LOS ANGELES — California tenants who held Section 8 housing vouchers were refused rental contracts by more than 200 landlords, including major real estate firms, according to an undercover ...

Since January 2020, California law prohibits landlords from discriminating against tenants based on their source of income, including Section 8 vouchers or other housing subsidies.

As of 2020, it’s illegal in California for landlords to refuse to rent to tenants who rely on federal housing vouchers to put a roof over their heads. But it seems some Bay Area landlords didn ...

But California can’t end housing discrimination on a city-by-city basis. State lawmakers need to go further and pass Senate Bill 329 , which would enact the ban statewide.

California tenants who held Section 8 housing vouchers were refused rental contracts by more than 200 landlords, including major real estate firms, according to an undercover investigation that ...

Nevertheless, people are optimistic that they’ll get Section 8, says Chancela Al-Monsour, executive director of the Housing Rights Center, a nonprofit in Southern California dedicated to securing and ...

Sacramento landlords are paying a $42,500 settlement after a state department sued them for allegedly discriminating against a Section 8 tenant.