How Does the Homeless Service Work?

For a lot of homeless people, the high cost rent and other barriers like deposit and good credit rule out being able to get housing on their own without some kind of subsidy. There's section eight, now officially called housing choice, which is a voucher programme for low income folks. But the weight lists are all currently closed in the bay area. Besides section eight, there's the occasional low income housing development that opens up, but the last one i heard about in oakland had 28 units, and they got four thousand applications. Some might say, kofkaesqe, and they wouldn't be wrong. Every one i met had interacted with this system. Some, like reggie