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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to make it possible for people with criminal backgrounds to qualify for Section 8 housing – but not for county housing.

For residents at Orchard Arms in Valencia – a housing development owned and operated by the county Housing Authority – it means anyone on probation or parole will not qualify for housing at the complex.

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“Leading up to the vote, residents at Orchard Arms were very concerned,”said Jarrod DeGonia, housing deputy for Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich.

The decision is expected to make it easier for ex-inmates to get Section 8 housing – housing that allows rent payments to be made with public housing vouchers – when in previous years they could not.

Antonovich voted against the motion, as did Supervisor Don Knabe.

“This does nothing to public housing, but it does change Section 8 housing by relaxing background checks,” said DeGonia.

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21 Comments

  1. Criminals shouldn’t qualify for anything free! County, state, whatever!

  2. Criminals shouldn’t qualify for anything free! County, state, whatever!

  3. Tracee Lee says:

    OMG…COME ON CALIFORNIA…cant wait to leave this state!

  4. Tracee Lee says:

    OMG…COME ON CALIFORNIA…cant wait to leave this state!

  5. No matter where you go… It’s all the same…. You just have to keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

  6. No matter where you go… It’s all the same…. You just have to keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

  7. No matter where you go… It’s all the same…. You just have to keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

  8. Good thing I’m not on Pororo…thats my apartment

  9. Good thing I’m not on Pororo…thats my apartment

  10. Good thing I’m not on Pororo…thats my apartment

  11. Don Teller says:

    So people never pay there debt to society? Closed minded narrow thinking here

  12. Don Teller says:

    So people never pay there debt to society? Closed minded narrow thinking here

  13. Don Teller says:

    So people never pay there debt to society? Closed minded narrow thinking here

  14. Mike Navarro says:

    California home of the criminals

  15. The Orchard Arms is right across the street from a school. No criminal shod be allowed near any child nor in any neighborhood.

  16. Fed Up says:

    What school is right across from Orchard Arms?
    The students & parents should be notified and given a chance to give input regarding this.

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