California programs are a mixed bag when it comes to their effectiveness, according to an analysis of health and housing initiatives.
it so far accounts for 45% of the funds spent on landlord incentives.Between July 2021 and July 20, 2022, Redding used about 90% of its emergency housing vouchers to successfully lease units, while the city of Los Angeles used about 5.8%.
Sasha Harnden, a public policy advocate at Inner City Law Center who helped draft a 2019 state law barring landlords from rejecting vouchers: “It may be appropriate to talk about incentives at some point. But what we’ve not seen is really robust enforcement of the law that prohibits refusing the vouchers in the first place.”“There’s just not enough money put on the table for people to jump for it.
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