2024-104 Housing Choice Voucher Program
Households Face Long Wait Times for Vouchers and Potential Housing Loss When an Emergency Housing Program Ends
Published: March 19, 2026
Audit Recommendations Disclosure
When an audit is completed and a report is issued, auditees must provide the State Auditor with information regarding their progress in implementing recommendations from our reports at three intervals from the release of the report: 60 days, six months, and one year. Additionally, Senate Bill 1452 (Chapter 452, Statutes of 2006), requires auditees who have not implemented recommendations after one year, to report to us and to the Legislature why they have not implemented them or to state when they intend to implement them. Below is a listing of each recommendation the State Auditor made in the report referenced and a link to the most recent response from the auditee addressing their progress in implementing the recommendation and the State Auditor’s assessment of auditee’s response based on our review of the supporting documentation.
Recommendations to the Legislature
Recommendation 1
To ensure that affected households, other stakeholders, and the public clearly understand the potential impacts of the end of EHV, the Legislature should consider requiring each housing agency in the State that administers EHV to publish a transition plan that clearly outlines when and how it will transition affected households to HCV, as well as when it expects to run out of its EHV funding.
Agency response status:
Pending
Recommendation 2
To mitigate the risk that households throughout the State may become homeless after EHV ends, the Legislature could either establish a temporary state program to provide direct assistance to impacted households or could allocate additional funding to existing state programs that address housing insecurity, such as the CalWORKs Housing Support Program, specifically for the purpose of providing assistance to households affected by the end of EHV.
Agency response status:
Pending
Recommendation to the Orange County Housing Authority
Recommendation 3
If Orange determines that it either will not or may not be able to transition all of its EHV households to the HCV program, it should immediately notify impacted EHV households and provide them with the expected date that their housing assistance will end. It should also immediately notify its stakeholders and the public.
Agency response status:
Pending
Recommendations to the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency
Recommendation 4
If Sacramento determines that it either will not or may not be able to transition all of its EHV households to the HCV program, it should immediately notify impacted EHV households and provide them with the expected date that their housing assistance will end. It should also immediately notify its stakeholders and the public.
Agency response status:
Pending
Recommendation 7
To address its expected inability to promptly transition its EHV households to the HCV program before the EHV program ends, Sacramento should immediately work with its authorizing agencies and CoC to identify potential sources of funds that could provide timely housing assistance to these individuals and families.
Agency response status:
Pending
Recommendations to the Housing Authority of the County of Riverside
Recommendation 5
To ensure compliance with federal requirements and to serve as a resource for applicants who have disabilities, Riverside should immediately designate a section 504 coordinator.
Agency response status:
Pending
Recommendation 6
To ensure that its administration of its HCV waiting list aligns with its administrative plan and that it does not inappropriately remove households from its waiting list, Riverside should, by September 2026, update its communications to applicants to accurately reflect the deadlines it has established regarding how long applicants may take to respond to communications from the housing agency.
Agency response status:
Pending
