Last year, when the nonprofit Serving Seniors opened a new affordable housing development in Ramona, it had 62 units to fill. More than 3,000 people applied for a space.
That’s just one example of the chasm between the demand for affordable housing units and housing aid across San Diego, and what’s actually being produced. Lisa Halverstadt lays out just how wide the gap is in a new story.
“In the last three years, the San Diego Housing Commission reports more than 22,000 families have added their names to a roughly 10-year waiting list for Section 8 housing aid to subsidize their rents. County officials say they are getting about 500 new applicants a month,” Halverstadt writes.
So how much is actually getting built?
