Last year, amid a long-running lawsuit, the city’s housing commission raised its voucher amounts significantly—increasing them by 37% for the most expensive neighborhoods. Now there's a $1 million legal fight over who gets credit for the higher amounts.
“The substantial change the Housing Commission made constituted nothing short of a leapfrogging over years of woefully inadequate payment standards for high opportunity neighborhoods,” said Parisa Ijadi-Maghsoodi, the attorney for the plaintiffs. “The court found the Housing Commission made the change because of the lawsuit. This was right before the case was about to go to trial.
in San Diego Superior Court stated that if plaintiffs succeed in bringing about change in their lawsuit, they can collect attorneys’ fees from the other side. Medel ruled that because the San Diego NAACP and San Diego Tenants Union lawsuit achieved its objectives by increasing voucher amounts, the San Diego Housing Commission has to repay the attorneys’ fees for the plaintiffs — which amount to more than $1 million.
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