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County announces Landlord Veteran Incentive Program

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The Landlord VIP comes as a result of a $1.1 million award from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to implement a program aimed at ending veteran homelessness. [contributed]
The Landlord VIP comes as a result of a $1.1 million award from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to implement a program aimed at ending veteran homelessness. [contributed]
LOS ANGELES – The Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles (HACoLA) on Wednesday announced the implementation of the Landlord Veteran Incentive Program (Landlord VIP).

The first-of-its-kind program offers landlords up to one month’s free rent to hold available units while a homeless veteran is referred and paperwork to contract the unit is completed.

The Landlord VIP comes as a result of a $1.1 million award from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to implement a program aimed at ending veteran homelessness. More than 400 homeless veterans currently have a County Veteran’s Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) voucher in hand and are searching for housing, county officials said in a news release.

The 18-month Landlord VIP is the latest in a series of strategies that HACoLA has implemented to eliminate the barriers veterans face in getting off the streets and into housing.

How the program works

Landlords with vacant units complete a pre-Request for Tenancy Approval form and, upon submittal, an expedited housing quality standard inspection is scheduled. The owner and HACoLA enter a signed agreement to hold the unit for a homeless veteran while the contract is processed. The owner receives a monetary incentive in an amount up to one month’s rent while a homeless veteran with an active HACoLA voucher is quickly referred to the vacant unit.

Owners interested in participating in the Landlord VIP should email LandlordVIP@hacola.org or call 626-586-1572 for more information.

[Information via news release from the county of Los Angeles.]

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2 comments for "County announces Landlord Veteran Incentive Program"

  1. Housing Authority of LA County, I’m impressed. Thank you for stepping up and doing what the Feds and State should be doing, making sure that not even one veteran is left behind. Time to end veteran homelessness once and for all.

  2. This is the kind of program that should of been in the Antelope Valley, the whole time not section 8 which has ruined every community in the Antelope Valley, but time L.A. county got of there a** and did something positive