Local News in Brief : Countywide : Stanton Urges Giving Indigents Subsidy Break
The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to look into a possible agreement between the county Housing Authority and similar agencies in neighboring areas to resolve a problem for indigent people who want to move.
Supervisor Roger R. Stanton told the board about a problem referred to him by a Garden Grove constituent who wanted her elderly mother to move from San Diego so she could be closer to provide medical care.
But the mother, who was living in federally subsidized housing in San Diego, would have to get on a two-year waiting list to get the same kind of housing in Orange County, Stanton said.
Stanton suggested an agreement between counties in which people would not lose their right to subsidized housing or be placed on waiting lists if they switched jurisdictions.
The supervisors offered the agreement to the authority as a suggestion. The final decision on the agreement would have to be made by the authority.
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