County struggles to keep up with affordable housing demand

by Jake Kincaid | Casa Grande Dispatch

Cypress Point Retirement Community in Casa Grande was built under the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program. It has made the decision to increase its prices to market rate and will be completely market rate by the end of 2018.
Jake Kincaid/PinalCentral

The options for affordable housing in Pinal County are drying up.

The pool of available low-income housing is shrinking as rents rise, leaving the Pinal County Housing Department and affordable housing complexes with a demand that has outgrown the supply.

This year, the Housing Department was able to fund only 444 of the 584 Section 8 vouchers allotted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or 76 percent, according to an occupancy report presented to the Pinal County Board of Supervisors this month. Section 8 is a rental assistance program that can be used by applicants in privately owned housing.

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