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Housing agency: more units appearing but voucher shortfall and long wait list persist
Summary
Walton County housing staff reported new availability of units for low-income families and said the program resumed issuing some vouchers after a shortfall, but 1,400 households remain on the waiting list and issuance rates are limited by funding and portability issues.
Walton County housing staff reported an uptick in available rental units for low-income households while warning that program funding constraints and a large waiting list will limit how many families can be served this year.
"We could have as many as 70 units that would come on board in Walton County for low income families," Mr. Baker, housing agency staff, told the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee, adding that he currently maintains an availability list of 13 homes that could house families immediately.
Baker and other housing staff described several constraints keeping the program from moving faster: a national shortfall in HUD funding that limited voucher issuance the previous year; an online…
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