Subsidized Housing Eligibility

A state agency created to aid financially strapped renters and home buyers has increasingly used its $3.5 billion in bond proceeds to help those with above-average incomes buy homes--particularly around Fresno, the hometown of the agency's director. A Times review of the performance of the California Housing Finance Agency--picked by Gov.

Rents at Lurline Gardens, for 25 years a federally subsidized apartment complex, will rise to market rate in June, worrying tenants who fear they won't be able to afford the increases without other government assistance. Representatives of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Los Angeles Housing Authority met with more than 100 tenants earlier this week to announce the rent increase that will take effect June 9 for the 196-unit complex at 9930 De Soto Ave.

Rents at Lurline Gardens, for 25 years a federally subsidized apartment complex, will rise to market rate in June, worrying tenants who fear they won't be able to afford the increases without other government assistance. Representatives of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Los Angeles Housing Authority met with more than 100 tenants earlier this week to announce the rent increase that will take effect June 9 for the 196-unit complex at 9930 De Soto Ave.

It was criminal the way some people in Los Angeles County used to have to wait to get into public housing. Their names would go onto a list and then they would sit for six or seven years waiting for a vacancy. But now--thanks in part to criminals--that kind of delay is starting to disappear.

It was criminal the way some people in Los Angeles County used to have to wait to get into public housing. Their names would go onto a list and then they would sit for six or seven years waiting for a vacancy. But now--thanks in part to criminals--that kind of delay is starting to disappear.

The disabled Korean War veteran who has filed a $10-million lawsuit alleging discrimination by the City of Beverly Hills and those associated with its senior housing facility on Crescent Drive (Times, Nov. 26), seems to have forgotten that he, and all other veterans, like myself, have preferences that involve federal funds. If that is allowed--and it has been ever since we decided to give veterans preferences as a reward for their war service--it seems to me that the City of Beverly Hills has a right to do what it did. The Department of Housing and Urban Development sets rules and regulations for all federally subsidized housing.

A historic — and some say haunted — Los Angeles hospital that has been closed for two decades is set to be converted into apartments for low-income seniors in a $40-million makeover. Linda Vista Community Hospital is an imposing relic from the days when railroads took care of their sick and injured employees in company facilities. Originally known as Santa Fe Coast Lines Hospital, it was built for employees of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in Boyle Heights, a blue-collar neighborhood east of the city's rail yards and home to many railroad workers.

A state agency created to aid financially strapped renters and home buyers has increasingly used its $3.5 billion in bond proceeds to help those with above-average incomes buy homes--particularly around Fresno, the hometown of the agency's director. A Times review of the performance of the California Housing Finance Agency--picked by Gov.