Santa Clara County Housing Authority to consider dialing back Section 8 voucher program

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SAN JOSE -- Sharon McKain learned in February that she had three months to move out. Her landlord was no longer renting to Section 8 voucher-holders because the Santa Clara County Housing Authority wouldn't allow him to raise the rent to the market rate.

Now, McKain spends her days looking for a new place, without success.

"I'm finding nothing," said McKain, 64, who is on disability, fighting back tears. "But people like me need places to live."

The housing authority's board of commissioners on Tuesday will consider relaxing some of the painful belt-tightening measures it enacted last year in the program -- lifting the rent-increase moratorium for landlords and slightly reducing the tenants' share of housing costs.

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[KamaAina]

1. Better throw back a couple of shots before you tackle the comments.

The usual claptrap about "if those people can't afford to live here they should just move".