By SAJE Staff
April 9, 2026
Attention, Angelenos! Are you (or is someone in your home) a senior citizen or person with a disability? Are you behind on rent, or at risk of displacement? If so, we’ve got good news for you: the online application portal for the ULA Emergency Income Support Program (ISP) opens tomorrow, Friday, April 10, at 8:00 a.m. PDT and will be open through Thursday, April 30.
Administered by the City of Los Angeles Community Investment for Families Department, the ISP provides up to $19,000 in financial assistance to low-income households with a senior and/or person with a disability who are at risk of displacement from their homes. Program funds are flexible and can be used how participants see fit. There are no restrictions—you can use the money for whatever helps you most, like rent, food, childcare, transportation, school, or other personal needs.
To be eligible for this program, you, and/or someone in your household, must:
- Be a renter living in the City of Los Angeles;
- One or more individuals within the household must be a senior and/or person with a disability, defined as:
- Senior: a person who is at least 65 years of age or older at the time of application;
- Person with Disability: a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, such as hearing, seeing, speaking, walking, breathing, performing manual tasks, caring for oneself, learning, or working;
- Have a gross household income at or below 50 percent of the Area Median Income (AMI);
- Have experienced being rent-burdened, defined as paying more than 30 percent of total household income for rent each month;
- Be at risk of homelessness, defined as a household with past due rent or an eviction warning notice, Unlawful Detainer filing, unsafe or unhealthy living conditions, or any other household debts that serve as evidence of such risk, or that meet the definition under § 576.2 of the ESG Program Interim Rule and § 578.3 of the Continuum of Care Program Interim Rule;
- Not be the landlord, master tenant, or homeowner;
- Not be related to the landlord or property owner (“related” includes immediate and extended family members, such as parents, children, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, or in-laws); and
- Not have participated in the 2025 ULA Income Support Program.
Households that meet the following criteria will be prioritized:
- Impacted by recent local emergencies, including loss of income due to workplace closure or safety concerns, business impact related to the emergencies, reasonable expenditures stemming from government-ordered emergency measures, or displacement caused by mandatory evacuation;
- Have a gross household income at or below 30 percent of the Area Median Income (AMI);
- Have experienced being severely rent-burdened, defined as paying more than 50 percent of total household income for rent each month; and
- Residency in a rental unit subject to the City’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO).
Please note that only one application is allowed per household, and documentation is required to demonstrate eligibility. If an applicant has a disability, another person may apply on their behalf, and the person with a disability can be of any age. Finally, applicants must be considered rent-burdened (currently paying rent) in order to qualify. Unfortunately, this means individuals who have already been displaced and/or are currently unhoused do not meet eligibility requirements.
The ULA Emergency Income Support Program is funded by United to House LA (ULA), a sustainable, democratically-enacted funding stream dedicated to affordable housing production and homelessness prevention in the City of L.A. Funding is generated from the Measure ULA totaling tax on the sale of high-dollar real estate transactions valued at $5.3 million or more.
To learn more, visit the ULA Emergency Income Support Program website.
