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80 <br />Table 16 - Race of Public Housing Residents by Program Type <br />Vouchers <br />Total Tenant -based Special Purpose Voucher <br />VASH Disabled <br />White 792 747 No data 45 <br />Black/ African American 60 52 2 6 <br />Asian 919 895 No data 24 <br />American Indian/ <br />Alaska Native 18 15 No data 3 <br />Pacific Islander 4 4 No data No data <br />Other No data No data No data No data <br />Data Source: PIC (PIH Information Center) <br />Table 17 - Ethnicity of Public Housing Residents by Program Type <br />Ethnicity <br />Vouchers <br />Total Tenant -based Special Purpose Voucher <br />VASH Disabled <br />Hispanic 625 602 23 <br />Not Hispanic 1,168 1,111 2 55 <br />Data Source: PIC (PIH Information Center) <br />Section 504 Needs Assessment: Describe the needs of public housing tenants <br />and applicants on the waiting list for accessible units. <br />Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits discrimination based on disability in <br />any program or activity that is conducted by federal agencies or that receives financial <br />assistance from a federal agency. A housing provider may not deny or refuse to sell or rent <br />to a person with a disability and may not impose application or qualification criteria, rental <br />fees, or sales prices and rental or sales terms or conditions that are different than those <br />required of or provided to persons who are not disabled. Further, housing providers may <br />not require people with disabilities to live only on certain floors, or to all live in one section <br />of the housing. Housing providers may not refuse to make repairs and may not limit or <br />deny someone with a disability access to recreational and other public and common use <br />facilities, parking privileges, cleaning or janitorial services or any services that are made <br />available to other residents. <br />When possible, SAHA fulfills reasonable accommodation requests. Accommodations can <br />be requested at any time. The tenant-based HCV waitlist was open from May 2, 2022, to <br />May 31, 2022. This resulted in a 7,500-household long waitlist. Priority was given to U.S. <br />veterans and families that live or work in Santa Ana. As of September 30, 2024, waitlist was <br />down to 6,710 households. Households on the waitlist are mostly families with children (54 <br />percent), elderly households represent 28 percent and disable households represent 18 <br />percent. A households may be both disabled and elderly. <br />EXHIBIT 1