Housing Help

Affordable housing and
rental assistance

Public Housing Authorities administer the federal Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) rental assistance program.

• To apply for a Section 8 voucher: please contact your local housing authority. Scroll down for a list of housing authorities in LA County.
• If you don’t have a LA City Section 8 voucher, here’s a countywide affordable housing database you can check:

Cash Assistance
and Voucher

• EMERGENCY HOUSING VOUCHERS (EHVS):
  Find more information here
• Cash assistance for families with children (CalWORKs):
  Find more information here

Eviction
Resources

• Eviction prevention/defense: Find out more here
• Eviction defense: Find out more here
• Housing rights defense: Find out more here

Finding Housing

• Housing.lacounty.gov helps people locate housing in the County of Los Angeles, including affordable, special needs, emergency housing, and more.
• Current vacancies, LA City public housing:
  Click here to get a copy
• Information on how to apply for public housing:
  Find more information here
• List of all public housing authorities in LA County – Los Angeles County Development Authority (LACDA)
• For housing authorities outside the city of Los Angeles,
  click here.

Homelessness
resources

The Coordinated Entry System (CES) is administered by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) and is the access point for different networks of services targeted at adults, families with children, and youth. Clients have their information entered into the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) and are then connected to available housing and support resources.