The first city-led jail in-reach program in Riverside County addressed 2022 data finding 20 percent of homeless people had previously been incarcerated.
St. Michael’s Riverside Episcopal Ministry Center opens 50-unit apartments for low-income families.
Developer brings more housing close to Downtown and Transportation Hub
On Tuesday, August 2, the Riverside City Council voted 6-1 to pass an ordinance amending the Riverside Municipal Code, that would prohibit encampments in high fire areas in the city of Riverside, particularly the Santa Ana River bottom.
Committee proposal could come in for just under $8.5 million in state's Homelessness, Housing and Prevention block grant funding for 2022-2023.
Plumes of yellowed smoke rose up and out of Riverside over the weekend after 14 acres in Ward 1 burned when a bonfire in a homeless encampment grew out of control. Riverside Fire Department battled the flames and waited to make certain they were extinguished from Thursday until Sunday morning. Its o
The proposed housing and zoning law, California Senate Bill 9 (SB-9), wishes to allow private contractors to construct multi-family dwelling units within a single-family residential zone with little to no local government interference. Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson has teamed up with mayors across the
Tackling the homelessness crisis in Riverside County has been named as a top priority by local officials, including Riverside’s mayor, its city council and county board of supervisors. Among the programs and initiatives available to California municipalities to address the issue, the Assisted Outpat
The Santa Ana River has faced its fair share of issues with storm drainage and industrial pollution in the past. But it is now facing one of its most difficult challenges yet: an accumulation of homeless encampments. Chicago filmmaker Kaitlin McMurry’s “The Other Side of the River” seeks to spotligh
Nationwide, Riverside was named number one on a list for highest rent increase over the last year. According to a report published in April, Riverside landed on two separate lists for highest rent increases for both one and two-bedroom apartments. A list of 10 cities’ rent increases for two-bedroom
The issue of housing is becoming more inclusive, as Riverside’s Community and Economic Development Department (CEDD) is closing in on the policy wording for the Housing Element update of the city’s General Plan. After the CEDD presented the first draft of the Housing Element to the Housing and Homle
Today at 10:30 a.m., Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson and fellow Big City Mayors (BCM) will virtually ask the governor and legislative leadership to include a historic $16 billion over four years in the state budget to house nearly every Californian who entered a homeless shelter in 2020. (Office of the M
The 10 income-restricted apartments will be part of a larger 64-unit mixed-use development near Mission Inn and University avenues.
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