[0:07] Watching riverside be good afternoon we are at three thirty just ticking for our

[1:17] city team so perfect there got me sure ally ready to go and I know have any recording

[1:26] or no for an attempt to see if that works are from there read the intro bout hours in

[1:31] meetings so the sophia played out if we want to be if we can begin her so into

[1:40] the city council rules of procedure in order of business resolution

[1:44] the members of the city council and the are reminded that they must preserve order

[1:48] and decorum throughout the meeting in that regard members of the city council

[1:52] and the are advised that any delay or disruption in the proceedings or refusal to

[1:57] obey the orders of the city council or the presiding officer constitutes a

[2:00] violation of these rules the city of riverside is committed to fostering a

[2:05] workplace that provides dignity respect and civility to our employees customers

[2:10] and the they serve. Thank you so much and we're going to move into our item we have a

[2:25] pretty short discussion calendar today the first item is housing authority project

[2:30] updates and actually first apart as we begin a comment my first comic art I have is

[2:37] hawks worth and open up the phone lines again which are open so let me know if

[2:41] there's anyone in line at once to speak but will start in the chambers. Mr. Hawks

[2:47] were good afternoon city council staff and river siders my name is dan hawks

[2:53] were they were within the cowboy street in riverside and I'm here to

[2:57] talk about the city's progress or lack there of toward the regional housing

[3:03] needs assessment goals which should be up on the screen effort that be put up but

[3:10] that could. Yes there we go thank you mom. These are were presented to the council in

[3:17] march of this year and this summarizes their progress from twenty twenty one on

[3:23] the goals set forth here are to be achieved by twenty twenty nine and as you will

[3:27] see we have a lot of work to do in riverside. Indeed in the very low income category

[3:35] we have achieved only forty seven completed units out of a goal of four thousand eight

[3:45] hundred and sixty one that is less than one percent of the goal that we have

[3:48] obtained with only four years remaining. So we have a lot of work to do in regards to

[3:56] very low the same is true of low income where we are only at nine point three percent

[4:01] of the goal with two hundred and eighty four units then that moderate we've achieved

[4:06] two hundred and fifty nine or eight point two percent of the goal home. However above

[4:14] moderate we have achieved three thousand twenty three units or almost forty one

[4:19] percent of the goal. So right now we're failing to produce affordable housing better

[4:28] producing a lot of above moderate income. It's very disconcerting for me because

[4:37] the very low income population that's really targeted at our home with

[4:39] individuals and riverside has been static. If not increasing in homelessness

[4:44] over this period because we happen to create haven't developed a very low income

[4:50] category. In addition we have seniors who have no place to downsize to when our city

[4:57] further we have you see our graduating students who are here who want to stay in

[5:03] riverside but they can't find housing in riverside that is affordable. I know that we're

[5:08] working hard on economic development but we need to have housing for those new

[5:13] jobs that we produce them people want to live in the city they won one to work

[5:18] better for them better for us it's better for our environment to have them

[5:23] housed within our community so this is a um something I thought was important for

[5:29] everybody to see a review before we had the discussion about the higher housing

[5:36] pipeline today and um we have our work cut out for us thank you thank you mr. Hawkes

[5:42] worth looking to see how many other comments for general come in the chambers that

[5:53] there's any on line and the mind kate we're going to go in close apple comment and

[5:58] come back to the chambers for discussion calendar and the first item we have is

[6:03] housing authority project updates and also also put up the comment line for that

[6:07] after five minute presentation and we have agra pina that afternoon we are

[6:19] very good afternoon members of the committee staff and the I'm so glad people are

[6:22] here to hear about all the wonderful things we are doing here in the city of

[6:29] riverside. As of today we have three hundred and thirty six affordable housing units

[6:33] in the pipeline that includes seventeen density bonus law units and ten california

[6:40] housing crisis act units and we have an additional twenty four permanent supportive

[6:44] housing units and forty one transitional housing units in various stages in

[6:50] the pipeline for a total of four hundred and one units so we expect to have about

[6:54] ninety of those online by the end of this year with a further forty nine in twenty

[7:00] twenty seven. I am hoping that one hundred and fifteen that I have listed them for

[7:08] it with twenty twenty eight will come in line by the end of twenty twenty seven

[7:12] fingers crossed but I don't want to jinx it by putting in that category just yet. I ate

[7:20] last time we have been asked to break down the units in the pipeline by the income

[7:26] limit. So just to give you an idea of what we're looking at the units currently in

[7:32] the pipeline hundred and thirteen are for people who are thirty percent of

[7:37] the area median income or below one hundred and fifty seven four people at fifty

[7:41] percent. Am I and a hundred and thirty one at eighty percent. Now the people that

[7:47] one hundred and thirty one count is for a max of eighty percent. Some of those units

[7:53] might shake out to be thirty or fifty percent as we progress in the process as of

[8:00] right now they will be no more than eighty percent of the area median income

[8:07] mulberry gardens. This project you probably are seeing it go up right off

[8:10] the ninety one the scene year phase is very close to completion and expected to be

[8:20] fully on line by fall of this year and they are starting to accept applications so we

[8:26] have a meeting this week to make sure that we have all of our unit makes is correct

[8:30] that we are making sure that everybody who lives there qualifies for all of

[8:35] the units based on all of their funding levels that we have and so we will be

[8:40] hearing about that soon some of the units that will be read reserved for people who

[8:46] are referred to our homeless prevention programs. So we as we get closer I will let

[8:51] everyone know what the processes for the open units for seniors and then a

[8:57] brown that same time next year we expect of the family units coming online that

[9:02] the hundred and fifty units and again as we get closer I will let everyone know what

[9:08] the processes for applying for those family and its fourteenth straight to

[9:14] the project is still in design review with path of life ministries. We are still

[9:20] working with them to determine what their budget is and if any of our funding

[9:24] sources will work for them the duplex at twenty three forty eight university. This

[9:32] was meant to be on the april seven city council agenda. I too didn't award a bid to

[9:38] demolish the building. It was pulled from the consent calendar time so we will be

[9:43] reworking of that stuff reporter and bring it back am I for council approval as

[9:48] soon as possible. The idea is that we're going to demolish this duplex and that needs

[9:55] its foundation interior exterior walls and roof to be replaced. So we're just going

[10:00] to demolish the whole thing and build from scratch and we're looking at working with

[10:05] planning to put on additional units patterson senior housing at this project is

[10:11] new to this presentation this will be at nineteen seventy patterson st. It has

[10:19] been entitled it is through the retirement housing foundation so this will be

[10:23] senior housing are looking at about sixty four units. We don't know the final unit mix

[10:29] yet I'm so right now I am counting these all as eighty percent units as they apply

[10:35] for more funding we will get a better idea of what qualifications will be for

[10:43] those seniors. Great minds at twenty eighty two mission and we are still working with

[10:50] the developer to finalize their pro forma. We want to make sure that this project

[10:55] is fully feasible for the full fifty five years so that we can enter into a

[11:01] disposition and development agreement with them and we can get going and phs has

[11:08] also submitted a proposal for infill home ownership projects. So these will be

[11:15] most likely pre manufactured housing that will be built on infill sites throughout

[11:21] the city and these will be for home ownership. They have done similar projects

[11:26] throughout the inland empire so we're very excited to get some more homeownership

[11:30] opportunities here in the city this is the place at u m place this is going to be

[11:40] our transitional housing in partnership with riverside university health systems. It

[11:45] will be thirty wine a permanent housing units for people who qualify for

[11:51] services through university either how it is currently in construction. They'd just

[12:00] last week got to be electricity he fully upgraded and all of the permits in

[12:08] place so they have power the construction is almost nine and we are expecting to

[12:14] hear that we have certificate of occupancy. I need a now the riverside access center

[12:23] which is just down from there is still in rehabilitation and the axis our stock has

[12:31] been relocated so that way they can get in there and they're doing a full

[12:34] rehabilitation of all of the a check systems and reorganizing the space so

[12:41] that it's better for the staff there to help and assist the clients with their

[12:45] needs as we transition them out of homelessness the cross community church. They have

[12:53] been approved the conditional use permits they are still seeking funding and the city

[12:58] is working with them to find funding opportunities of that work for their project

[13:06] habitat for humanity is also working with the sunny home ownership project they have

[13:12] two sites on garden street that they're looking to do thirteen single family houses

[13:18] and eight eighty use. We are in the process of applying for permanent local housing

[13:23] allocation I we have been told that this stay is changing the requirement so

[13:29] that a certain percentage of our people ha funds are going to be required to be used for

[13:34] home ownership. So once we figure out what exactly that amount to is we can start

[13:38] working with habitat for humanity to figure out the final financing for this

[13:44] project. Sunrise at bogart this one is in construction this is a picture taken from

[13:50] their social media they're very very active there showing everybody exactly

[13:55] what's going on. It's very exciting to see the projects taking shape their

[14:00] groundbreaking was held last july and the amount of construction that they have

[14:05] done since then is astounding so we're very excited for those and we do expect those

[14:10] to be on those friday nights to come on line by end of year the phs this is another

[14:23] site that they have ideas for a potential infill homeownership project. This

[14:29] will be at gould so we are still reviewing their project poor performer on this one to

[14:36] see what kind of funding they need to make this one affordable to a family or

[14:43] density bonus projects that we have four currently through and this verse there

[14:51] are planning department. So these are the projects where housing developers making

[14:55] market rate units can sign on to build extra units of those units are sold to or rented

[15:03] to low income families and so these are part of that portfolio and once

[15:08] the projects are completed they will transfer over to us that we can monitor them

[15:15] the california housing crisis act. So these are ten very low income units that we

[15:22] are required to replace so those are something that we are working on right now

[15:31] transferred transformative climate communities grant our current grant cycle is just

[15:34] finishing up so we have over two thousand trees planted over fifty homes receive

[15:41] solar installations and our riverside county workforce development helped over one

[15:45] hundred residents of teen employment. The newer application is coming out and

[15:51] so we are currently developing a project plan to apply for this next round of

[15:59] tcc funding and recommend that the housing and homelessness committee

[16:02] received this update on the housing authority's housing projects I am

[16:06] available for any questions thank you so much. Check into question to just

[16:10] checking if we have any comment for this item we do for number two. Dan talks

[16:18] with and then I'll see if there's anyone else. Hello the city council members

[16:28] staff and riverside thursday and hawks were again from the cowboy streets. Um I do

[16:31] have a overhead for this one as well here we go thank you um I noticed that there are

[16:38] twenty four permanent supportive housing units in the plan home. Those are I

[16:44] would expect are following the housing first philosophy which is in the city's own

[16:50] housing element it is also required by law all by the state to receive funding

[16:56] from senate bill thirteen eighty housing first is a lot of the land in california and

[17:06] we have to abide by that if we won state funding for any of our housing projects that

[17:09] required within states tat toot. Unfortunately there's been discussion on the city

[17:15] council that housing first is not effective. That is not what experts have found it is

[17:20] not what finland socal housing collective as found after extensive amount of

[17:27] research into the topic into all of the research done on it. We found that there are

[17:32] seventy eight eighty six percent success rate in housing first housing first

[17:38] realize basically back on a theory that was proposed and has been taught in psychology

[17:44] since the nineteen forties and that's mad flows hierarchy of needs. People

[17:49] need to address their physiological conditions first air food water shelter

[17:54] clothing reproductions sleep the basics so people need to be hours before they can move

[18:01] on. Safety comes next and within safety is but without housing without shelter

[18:08] without the safety of a secure environment people can't move on or move forward

[18:14] with their lives that is what housing first provides provides a safe environment

[18:21] for people the address their physical mental emotional and in some cased and substance

[18:30] abuse needs but they need to have a safe secure environment to do that. I

[18:37] know for myself how difficult it is to follow through on a new year's resolution I have

[18:44] safety I have shelter eye of love and belonging. I have this team but yet it's still

[18:48] hard to make changes my life but we are asking people by putting away by threatening

[18:56] to throw away housing first we're asking people to move jump up jump beyond him make

[19:02] steps that we ourselves could make in changing their lives so I think we need to

[19:08] reinforce we need to restate our commitment to housing first. So we can have a state

[19:14] bonding for projects in riverside so we can reduce our home with project and we

[19:19] can no longer turn aside ninety four of our economic our most vulnerable city

[19:26] residents onto the streets as we did with university terrace thinking of a stock's

[19:32] worth. Do we have any other comments on sample comments the chamber symphony line

[19:42] ever had a question regarding the university one. Why was it pulled because that's been

[19:45] a long time coming in and understand what happened there. Yes so cows

[19:51] councilmember falcone had some questions about whether or not demolishing

[19:55] the building was the best use of the site and so we went back and we talked with

[20:05] planning the state at the historic preservation officer and we look at

[20:13] the different options for that building including using it for potentially missing

[20:17] middle housing or surpassing the property and using it for private development so we

[20:23] went through a bunch of different options for the site so we're going to go

[20:27] back and put it back on the city council agenda for a vote although it has been

[20:34] indicated that it might be a split though at that time is well in this bird to move

[20:39] wanted to demolish demolish it ok because we've been working on this for five

[20:42] years extensively and I'll be frank I looked at all those options and we ultimately

[20:47] came to this decision cell was little fresher it is leopold was unsure but wanted

[20:51] to give them that opportunity too for you know if it comes we have more questions but

[20:56] yet do we know a day that's coming back not for sure yet I'm still waiting on

[21:01] confirmation. I want to make sure that all of the questions were raised

[21:07] that we got are referenced in the staff report and the ones we make sure that that's

[21:11] finalized will get a confirmation of what it will be coming back in action

[21:15] affect the prior p process we had out for that. We're hoping not. It depends on how

[21:19] long it takes to get back on the council agenda. Ok think you let me know if you need

[21:25] help with that any other questions later. I'm sorry ma'am or yes in just a member

[21:31] today. There's no art yet so I know that the arlington projects on to mix his

[21:37] product to the sisters will use to be there searching that to be affordable housing

[21:40] are how they've been reaching out to you guys to coordinate on that all or net so we had

[21:46] reached out to them because we were under the impression that they were going to apply

[21:50] for basic funding and so we wanted to create with them because we do need to get

[21:54] resolutions on their behalf but we did not get a response back in time for this round

[22:02] of a sick funding. So we're still trying to get open communication with them to

[22:06] see maybe what other funding sources are good for that project. Ok got she is

[22:13] talking to them that developers we brought them back to council for approval

[22:19] of splitting a lot so that we got that done a couple weeks ago and then now is that

[22:22] the condition for closing on the property in this other dude a phased approach

[22:27] related you know bill a portion of it and buy from what they told me it sounds

[22:31] like they weren't seeking any kind of grant funds are things that they can have

[22:36] their own mechanism fun in at some of the funding source as they can but can't do

[22:41] anything and told that lots plays fully complete so and there's different like timing

[22:45] that happened so it just might be that it didn't quite work out for this round

[22:49] because they were still in process. Okay okay and then also that we get updates we

[22:56] have the pre preview plans but we also are using that to have pre approved use in that

[23:05] order square foot plant to be a pre approves in the family home arms you can get a

[23:09] primary residence on jess's eighty you so that should be coming to us in june july

[23:15] issue of our own there are having that new licensing from the architecture firm

[23:18] that did that is designed so that will be helpful tool for workforce housing or we can

[23:24] have pre priests in the family has houses that can also have eighty on

[23:28] the back of them as well for the small infill lots that exactly is about missing

[23:34] metal component to it as well and were also at edc really bringing in a lot of work

[23:39] force housing initiatives and things of that nature that we can look at accelerated

[23:43] timelines to make sure we get housing bill because the time was all this housing is just

[23:50] forever and were never going to catch up at this rate and so this is not irish I

[23:54] promise is very much a california problem every city across california are really

[23:59] hard time because the funds are so complicated it's it's a spider web of different

[24:06] funding sources to get on the seat belt and so the out where having all

[24:12] the resources available and making sure that we're doin all the different housing

[24:17] types that were trying to do but for me thank you thank you so much now move on to

[24:23] annex a them and will close comment would have any additional comments on line

[24:28] and lamont or homelessness action plan and we have megan story coming up for fifteen

[24:31] minute presentation and open up the comet lines for that as well. Good afternoon share

[24:42] a memorable or even the other team to provide an update our home is action plan so

[24:48] the second time a little bit really quick and this plan is actually proven october

[24:53] twenty twenty two in alignment division riverside twenty twenty five strategic

[24:57] plan and intention the plan was to provide establish a comprehensive framework to

[25:02] address homelessness without the mission that was identified as a release to

[25:06] the plan was to reduce homelessness by creating and maintaining an affordable

[25:12] housing and program programming utilizing a whole person care purse just

[25:15] support individuals and families to achieve housing stability and self

[25:19] sufficiency and along with because it started so long ago there had been

[25:25] significant revolutions in the business practices things that have changed our

[25:28] operations include legislation changes funding sources are finding resources

[25:33] and collectively the actual department and the city department structure has

[25:38] changed significantly initially the office the homeless solutions was a

[25:45] subdivision of cd and then later housing as a whole became a subdivision of

[25:50] the city manager's office and finally established as its own standalone department

[25:56] housing and human services department but however the cornerstone of the plant

[25:59] the program stir means the same with the impact to us to assist the vulnerable

[26:04] populations in the city riverside so that being said the actual department housing

[26:10] and human services has been afforded the opportunity to achieve these outcomes as a

[26:14] release to the first half of our fiscal year this year so we've been able to provide

[26:19] fifty four clients with homeless prevention services three hundred and thirty nine

[26:23] individuals with emergency shelter thirty six chip homes we have three and sixty units

[26:29] in development which includes part of supportive housing we've been able to rapidly

[26:34] re house a hundred and twenty one hundred and twenty nine clients provide thirty motel

[26:39] vouchers provide a street outreach to thirty two hundred eight individuals and

[26:44] that is a duplicated number meaning we might have contacted one person several

[26:49] times only and we have three three thousand seven hundred and seventy nine affordable

[26:55] housing units existing right now and our access center again even with

[27:00] the modifications that other people mentioned we've been able to serve and a book at a

[27:04] number of clients which includes one thousand six hundred and eight individuals

[27:12] so the actual home shifting gears little but the actual homeless action plan is a

[27:16] living document that focuses on six key goals today will be reviewing the city's

[27:22] effectiveness in those goals are the spaces and giving ourselves a little report

[27:26] card if you will. So the first objective was to increase housing production

[27:33] four with a focus on affordability increase availability of services

[27:34] prevent homelessness emergency shelter or expand awareness and corny regional

[27:41] infrastructure so they move through this plan and are our report card are going to see

[27:45] three different color coded check marks. If there's a green check mark it means we

[27:48] accomplish this objective or goal or benchmark if it is yellow it means it's in

[27:54] progress and if it's red it's something that we need to look out and modify and re

[27:58] adjust our plans move forward so goal number one let's talk about her achievements

[28:04] since our implementation of the plan and twenty twenty two acceptance of council's

[28:08] plan and twenty twenty two we've been able to insure ninety percent of our

[28:11] expiring affordable housing con cut covenant covenants are maintained a five percent

[28:17] increase in affordable housing inventory fifty five for some market in affordable

[28:22] housing units built annually and a five percent increase in number the number of sites

[28:26] developed from the twenty team housing first plan possible areas that we can

[28:32] improve or that we're still working on are the items that other people highlighted

[28:38] kerry now the development of six hundred and eighty nine affordable units in

[28:41] the pipeline for development and five and fifty market rate and affordable housing

[28:46] units that were building annually and you can see on the screen that we have some

[28:49] of the projects that again highlighted which includes the mulberry gardens and sun

[28:55] rise above our products are really looking for casinos through to fruition. We also

[28:59] during this reporting period had a few grand openings. We had a spy or complex which

[29:04] provided thirty two units and the vista de la vista de la sierra had a really slow down

[29:12] for that one which allow to stew in clare at eighty units to our portfolio. The city

[29:19] has approximately has met approximate twenty percent of the reno or regional housing

[29:24] needs assessment guidelines or obligations under department continues to work

[29:28] with other departments and agencies to still reach toward meeting those goals

[29:34] moving on to call number to increase the ability of services with a focus on

[29:38] physical mental health and substance abuse disorder treatment. We have

[29:43] successfully been part of the implementation of the care court which was

[29:47] implemented on january first twenty twenty five in this space but partake in

[29:52] particular you'll see we have a lot of goals that were in the process of reviewing our

[29:58] process of working towards and some of those metrics what were some of those

[30:01] metrics that we originally were trying to hold ourselves accountable for needing to

[30:05] change just based on evolution of programming. So the first one our intention

[30:10] was to increase the number of social work interns by fifteen percent annually. We

[30:14] want to adjust that to change the goal to be an annual from an annual metric to a three

[30:22] year metric increase in the skills to reduce retiree traumatized confidence and

[30:26] job satisfaction among the peace that team the pan steam and outreach workers by

[30:30] forty five percent and only willing to modify that objective to change the focus

[30:35] on job satisfaction and create a survey to track those actual results related

[30:40] to jobs job satisfaction the goal to refer ninety six individuals to physical and

[30:46] behavioral health resources annually wanted to modify that to edit data field to

[30:52] arc gis rgs twenty three survey for about rp center axis enter team members use

[30:58] and partnering agencies so we are actually tracking what that's behavioral health

[31:04] resources was the evil resources are if we approach allow low level metrics to

[31:08] identify with those resources are. It allows us to better identify what we should be

[31:12] bringing into the city of riverside to benefit the and finally modifying the gall to

[31:19] refer fifteen individuals annually to the home court program annually to modify

[31:24] again our metric that we measure that with with our joyous twenty three survey

[31:30] that we use on the field and inside there's one more and then in modifying the goal to

[31:35] increase the number of people who successfully replace to from street outreach by

[31:39] twenty five percent annually to really identify not to say who is engaging on the street

[31:46] but to him to provide the level of metric as to who we are placing and both

[31:49] shelter and treatment programs. Goal number three I'm sorry other areas of

[31:58] improvement I were looking toward modifying for goal number two were items that we

[32:02] have not had the objective on really focused on the metric that was used as the platform

[32:09] of our statistics so we really lean upon the point in time count and the goals that

[32:14] were identified in the homeless homelessness action plan focused on and

[32:20] lean upon the point in time count and there's the annual reference to the home a point

[32:25] in time count. However that count is not done annually the county intends to change

[32:29] it to be every two years every year depending on what's going on some of them

[32:32] I have to do with health reasons some of them I have to do with just the metrics

[32:36] of the hole so we want to modify our goals that are associated with an annual

[32:41] representation of the point in time count to align them with the riverside point in

[32:46] time keepers like any point in time count and whatever that is of its annual if it's

[32:49] every two years that's what it would align with and to increase when we referred to

[32:55] originally to increase the number of people except services from the piece that

[32:58] and street nurses by twenty five percent annually we want to turn move the street nurse

[33:04] segment of that gore because they measure about again separately. Moving on to goal

[33:09] number three preventing homelessness. We've successfully provided eighty

[33:14] four percent of rental assistance programs improve retention re annually

[33:19] there's been a fifteen percent increase and duplicated number of home of

[33:23] households assisted through rental assistance programs in the twenty twenty three

[33:26] fiscal year and tend to temper some thereafter and we even rolled six individuals

[33:32] to the shared housing program in early goals that are still in progress specifically

[33:40] he'll steal lot of language in the report change aside from metrics may have a lot

[33:48] of metrics associated with the point in time count we also wanted to update

[33:54] the plan collectively down on the bus the update and every reference to the office

[34:00] the homeless solutions or I s s to modify it to the housing and human services senior

[34:08] program also one of the goals to refer singing five households annually to an

[34:15] employment assistance program we wanted to change that to to refer at least eighty

[34:17] percent of households in shelter and housing that can work goals that we wanted to

[34:23] modify it again was just aligning the five percent annual decrease in

[34:27] homelessness amongst those who are just as involved to a line out the point in time

[34:35] count one of the things that is really important both for our team and for

[34:39] the department is the hole and the city is to really memorialize our success

[34:42] stories as a relief to the persons that are being implemented. So collectively

[34:47] as a department we're working with the marketing and communications team to update

[34:52] our website and make sure that we're sharing all the success stories because

[34:55] these resources in these programs are utilized. We want to make sure that that

[35:00] information gets out for all the folks that were able to re housed every home and keep

[35:07] in their homes number for increased availability and effectiveness of emergency

[35:12] shelter one goal that was achieved was to increase the number of emergency

[35:15] shelter beds for twenty five percent in twenty twenty three. This is subject to

[35:20] funding say wanted to make sure that was identified and the committee is going to

[35:23] review the school's funding is needed to stand up additional shelter beds and

[35:27] cover ongoing operational costs so it's not just ending up the emergency shelter it's

[35:33] a continuation of the funding for the shelter shelters and increase the number of people

[35:37] exiting emergency shelter to housing by ten percent annually cause that we have

[35:43] not achieved are still working on again and related to the point in time counter

[35:47] to decrease the numbers of un sheltered individuals by ten percent annually increase by

[35:52] one point five percent in twenty twenty three to the number two from six

[35:57] hundred and five to six hundred and fourteen twenty twenty five again providing

[36:02] the level of metrics that allow us to align the point in time count with our

[36:06] metrics that were providing for success as it relates to his goals and then increase

[36:11] the number of people accepting shelter from the seating asian team an

[36:15] outreach team with twenty five percent. Really the challenge we have but

[36:18] this is ensuring that their data that we are collecting doesn't that allows us to and

[36:25] duplicate numbers so when we're engaging with the same individual on a regular basis

[36:29] does that count as one engagement or does that count is five engagements so really

[36:34] being able to look at the point not a point in time count. Look at our various

[36:40] data from the survey one two three and determine if it's the same individual or

[36:43] encountering or a different individual goal number five expand awareness of

[36:50] the areas of improvement that we anticipate making as that we had an annual increase

[36:55] the goal of making an annual increase of three on cause related to host activity by

[36:59] decreasing it by ten twenty five percent thereby decreasing nine on one calls

[37:03] related to homelessness. One of the things that we noticed too is that we needed to get

[37:10] data. There was a gap in the data that was provided to our department and were

[37:15] requesting that the fire department provide monthly reports to hhs that

[37:19] identifies the high frequency of users of services so again if you have the same

[37:23] occurrence of an individual that's out on the streets that needs medical services

[37:28] what are the services are needed where that reoccurring problem happening and how can

[37:33] we infuse existing resources to assist in that matter and the goal to decrease by fifty

[37:39] percent. The traffic to the office of homelessness solutions web page annually

[37:44] with the evolution of our department and the structure of our department we are

[37:47] working with marketing again to scrub the web page to make sure that we are providing

[37:53] resources that the will use and reference on a regular basis. Goal number six corny

[38:01] corny regional infrastructure we have attended twenty five continued care and committee

[38:07] meetings in you and advocated for the increase of shelter beds mental health programs

[38:10] and affordable housing based on gap analysis and increase the number of emergency

[38:15] shelter bus driver's account of a ten percent by twenty twenty for one of the goals

[38:19] that we need to work on or that we want to modify is the maintaining of fifty cold

[38:26] weather shelter bed program annually and the reason for this the move by the one of

[38:30] her move this gore modify the school was that it's recommended that riverside

[38:35] county find another location to it within the county to stand at this program because

[38:40] riverside has really toed the line for this program for a number of years and as you

[38:45] already know riverside is a resource for a lot of other regional me. Countywide

[38:50] programs so we wanted to share the opportunity with another city to provide

[38:56] the level of service the recommendations of this time is that the city county

[39:00] committee receiving father presentation on the homeless action plan update and

[39:05] provide any feedback on recommended changes including the following replacing any

[39:08] references office homeless solutions with the housing is ours as department change

[39:13] the reporting period because the reporting period as it stands on the report at this

[39:17] time is october through september so modify in alignment with our fiscal

[39:24] year from july one to june thirtieth and with that the department like to

[39:27] provide the committee with an annual update in september of every year and specifically

[39:32] as a release the affordable housing space remove seventy three eighty two and seventy

[39:37] three eighty four garden street from the housing first plan cites as entropy

[39:41] mentioned those are being presented as affordable housing city as home

[39:48] ownership properties through habitat for humanity and with that chair seventeen second

[39:55] clip my presentation. Thank you so much appreciate that will go to comment now and

[40:00] we give the cards in the audience of animes can know for some folks after we

[40:05] get the comment. My daughter has he. Are you seasick showcase sets tonight I have

[40:10] to get her there before five pm so I wanted tied tightly personally I want to cancel

[40:14] today's meeting but if lor the whole comment how to staff member for maybe in

[40:22] the future for one to die more and sometimes the report maybe we could bring it back

[40:24] and you get into some more of the details out and be able to get more input so I do

[40:26] apologize for that. This time was running a little bit tight today but let's start

[40:31] off comment. We have clear jefferson and then we have becky wiley the afternoon

[40:42] committee I want to first think I that department. We partner with on this report

[40:49] many of claire definitely proud executive director of family promise of riverside

[40:53] we exclusively serve families experiencing homelessness. I want to

[40:59] highlight how much this department is under resource and underfunded the fact that

[41:08] this um that our goal toward decreasing homelessness has not been met is not at all a

[41:15] reflection of the hard work the partnership for the understanding of

[41:20] the challenge. It is quite literally a reflection of the diocese and their lack of

[41:26] understanding of the complex levels of support that truly addressing homelessness

[41:33] require and so as committee members who I believe are committed to ensuring that

[41:38] every riverside or has a home I'm going to encourage you to dig deep to work harder to be

[41:45] more creative in more innovative to think about what it means for us to truly

[41:51] as ex city make a commitment to every riverside are to be able to sleep indoors and

[41:57] that is going to take a multi pronged multi disciplinary million if not billion dollar

[42:04] support in order to make sure every single riverside or has a place to call home. That is

[42:10] something we can achieve if we work together right. I work on it every single day

[42:15] and partner with these amazing folks along with hundreds of other nonprofit

[42:23] and faith based organizations this is something we need to believe is possible if we

[42:29] lead with our heart first and we engage in every possible opportunity we cannot afford

[42:36] to miss a single opportunity of any type of shelter housing affordability for

[42:44] homeownership. We have to double down on our commitment and it's got to start with

[42:48] the leadership in this room and so I encourage you to reach out to organizations

[42:54] like myself that work on this challenge every single day pressed to think about how

[42:59] to build a better stronger more empathetic and more powerful riverside a strong

[43:07] riverside the riverside where everyone is guaranteed home this is an economic impact

[43:14] to each and everyone of us. I hope we all can stand here today and saying we are

[43:21] committed to a strong powerful empathetic caring river site. Thank you mr.

[43:29] percent of iq wat li and then we have oops sorry but I shun morrow morrow sorry punches

[43:39] from iraq have at the wiley ward one. So there are so many things about this I'd

[43:45] like to talk about but I have three minutes a minute and keep it down for you counsel

[43:51] him. I first I just wanna mention. No offense to the apartment I know they put

[43:56] a lot of work into this and I truly appreciate everything that you've done but we

[44:01] should be focusing on goals as numbers and percentages when you use add data fields

[44:07] as a goal that's just a strategy or action to get the information needed. I

[44:12] want to hear that nine ninety six people got house I want to hear we have a ten percent

[44:18] increase and from this to this I appreciate that the problems with the number

[44:25] of outreach when they're out there you're going to be talking to them more than one

[44:30] time the entire issue with being homeless while there's a multitude of reasons

[44:37] they're homeless. They're going to need assistance whether it be buyer coming

[44:41] out because they've had heat stroke or there may be in just a too much of some

[44:46] substance or they were caught urinating in or or or or all of this outreach would be

[44:54] decreased if we had places for them to live. We cannot move people from home less to

[45:02] what affordable housing it's not the same thing if we truly want to do something

[45:07] about the homeless people in our community we have to have housing for them and that is

[45:13] permanent supported housing we can't just put them in some shelter and not give

[45:17] them the assistance they need the whole purpose so I don't get back into that again

[45:25] community outreach. It doesn't help us when four of the city council members are

[45:31] telling their constituents in newsletters and in forums that they are against

[45:36] permanent supportive housing I'm looking at you councilman rubble art even if

[45:40] you're not looking at me. We have to be in sync with what we're saying we have to be

[45:46] making true outreach on this we could have said we increase the number of people

[45:50] we moved from homeless to housing. Had we accepted the university terrace homes

[45:56] money. How is this any different than the permanent supportive housing coming

[46:00] down the line are you going to be against that too or will it not matter because

[46:04] it's not next to a friend's business. Thank you miss wiley we have bush on

[46:11] something they're eight. Ok wonderful then we have dan hawks were than susan. Ok

[46:22] the only name is bush on morrow. I am a social work student of the county's

[46:25] somebody know I am accompanied by my classmates easy kyra and carol m for our

[46:29] last semester and are junior year we were tasked with creating a community action

[46:36] project where we identify a social problem within the community and help

[46:40] provide a solution so we won out and surveyed the community of riverside to

[46:45] determine where a social problem is we received an overflow feedback from

[46:50] residents stating that holland the homeless population is a social

[46:53] problem within their community a lot of the residents felt like their

[46:57] stuff in them on the streets were hindering and well being and quality of life. So our

[47:04] group partnered with paoli presbyterian church which is down this tree right next to

[47:09] riverside community hospital volunteer to help them prepare and serve meals to

[47:15] the homeless while also providing hygiene kits in resource kurds british to be

[47:18] some give kurds and hayden kids to the people that are on the streets better. And

[47:24] how's this population is often vulnerable overlooked in this judge urged the board

[47:28] members the community the community the state and the stakeholders to get out

[47:33] and serve and provide resources to these individuals we cannot

[47:36] complain about them being on the streets if we do not get out and help them. Thank you

[47:43] thank you so much and we have dan talks with and then susan approach to problem. Good

[47:50] afternoon again dan hawks fourth ward three. Just a quick note to what I

[47:56] discussed earlier we discussed a lot about affordable housing but most

[48:01] people don't understand what those levels are so very low income is under thirty nine

[48:06] thousand dollars low income is under sixty three thousand dollars in so um moderate

[48:15] income is eighty seven thousand so above moderate is our poor people making more

[48:21] than eighty seven thousand dollars the year. There you see the gap that we have

[48:26] which reflects the lack of progress that we're having on homelessness here in

[48:33] riverside. While we look at a neighbor the city of redlands home authorized and have put

[48:39] on has created a hundred unit permanent supportive housing project during the sense that

[48:45] it opened in the last two years two years in a row each year they decried home with

[48:51] us by thirty percent each year if that happened in riverside we would have three

[49:01] hundred less people almost fifty percent reduction in the number in riverside. Yet

[49:07] we're turning down projects that would remove people from our street it would have

[49:12] taken ninety four individuals from our street and place them in permanent supportive

[49:18] housing reducing the numbers by one third of those on the waiting list which is

[49:23] about two hundred and fifty two according to michelle davis right now on board

[49:29] seeking housing. These are home with individuals who are seeking housing right now

[49:37] the other issue are like to address is that we are under funding our home with efforts

[49:42] here and yet we have put on the ballot measure z measure z has no additional money

[49:48] coming for homeless services in the plan for the four forthcoming years. So even

[49:55] though it's listed as the beneficiary and it had received some funding from

[49:59] the original measure z it would receive no additional funding with the tax increase

[50:05] that to me is a major oversight. We have an affordable housing crisis in

[50:11] riverside. We have a home with crisis in riverside. We are leaving six hundred and

[50:18] twenty people on our street almost fifty percent of them want housing and we're

[50:24] failing to deliver to them we need to dedicate bonds we have the opportunity to

[50:30] secure twenty million in state bonds and we turned it away. So how are we going to

[50:38] build affordable housing if we're not tapping into state funding in the future is that

[50:42] going to be the responsibility of riverside taxpayers. Thank

[50:53] you thank you mr. Potts with susan after know I'm here we have a transitional home

[50:58] kiana mind ardor and I she's here with their class in moreno valley we've had it

[51:04] since august of twenty twenty three about a year and a half ago hope housing removed all

[51:10] of our residents from us without any explanation and I'm trying to see if their

[51:16] grievance process we can do to find out why they took our people from it and can talk

[51:25] to rachel robbins about maybe a week and a half ago and she just said people have a right

[51:30] to go where they wanna go but they were already in our house and they took

[51:40] the people and place them other places without any explanation we did have a

[51:44] guide of mine that was moved to that home in riverside were five people that stand

[51:49] he was one of the people that got staff his case manager ask why can't he stay

[51:55] at our house that's where he wanted to be and he had other people he wanted to place

[52:01] there and dry mouth from county and hope said there are a vendor of ours but

[52:07] they're not on the list the vendors we know deal with anymore so many have an

[52:19] outlet that even a minute left your comment we can respond in comment. Okay

[52:31] baby q and I would recommend is just a robot checking someone will comment there or

[52:34] for in chambers any other comment on line see if there's any nomar ok so close

[52:48] to the comment I would just suggest my apologies were not for man not familiar with

[52:52] the issue you raise but if you want to check in at the end with megan's toys

[52:55] with their housing human services team. Perhaps he can get your information and see

[53:00] if there's any follow up we could try to provide about your situation okay yeah I go

[53:04] find out it's curling city or county but will try to see if we can learn more ok thank

[53:09] you for being here today appreciate it. Great and counting. Okay I'm hearing

[53:14] him sing its county so lab will circle will try to get you there and contact

[53:18] information for the right folks the ship I connect with thank you coming back to

[53:23] committee looking to animate my ai we don't have love I share with us today he

[53:27] encouraged had a conflict but I looking over to come to regard skip it really short

[53:36] respect your time the you know again there's a lot as I want to go into on the on

[53:43] the housing action plan but it really comes down to is you know shows before is that

[53:50] all those resources from the county are located in inner city and as you

[53:55] mentioned a lot of our seas around easter chicks around us. Brain in people and they

[54:02] stay inner city and purses are enough resources for them existing already and they

[54:07] end up in our city and I think our partners are all are not partners but our

[54:11] surrounding cities are neighbors are all too happy to just top up either prom

[54:16] anymore and it's you know the washer and dusky let it go and that kind of comes

[54:21] down to a mention about spreading out services have in other cities opportunities

[54:25] to house his services because we can't be relied upon for the entire county to house

[54:31] the publisher the county because we've historically been used that way and is

[54:40] kind of legitimate reasons for that you know the county see all of course you have

[54:42] more resources here in the county seat but until our partners you know this is say

[54:47] statewide are other states are you utilizing the state california's investment into

[54:53] housing and statewide we've seen billions of billions of dollars invested at our

[55:01] population continues to grow grow grow and it's and I think that is opportunity

[55:05] from other people who are just taken out of aberdeen is a son over there and this are

[55:09] probably more and so we really need to have kind of a more of a regional look at

[55:16] our own homes us because we do not have the resources again we say is underfunded

[55:21] a billion dollar investment seaver aside as I have a billion dollars to invest in

[55:25] this state funding national funding the way it works and goes to counties and then to

[55:30] us and we really liked our county partners into other cities are in our county to

[55:35] regionally look at this housing plan because we can't be in our own and so there's

[55:44] a lot want to go into but a scarf. Leave it there thank you thank you for

[55:48] the additional comments and I am but I would suggest don't think this is something we

[55:51] want to rush I do apologize for my conflict to having to buy certain time but what I

[55:57] would plan will work to do work with them michelle's work to set the agenda for

[56:00] future meetings is bring back some of these pieces I think a new engagement was a key

[56:05] when we heard from folks either jen or activities are again how we sold many

[56:10] breaking up the goals and we can have them and pair it with maybe a presentation

[56:13] from one of those partners that were working with a man committee can give more input

[56:17] out and hear more from community as we work to strengthen the action plan

[56:23] that could be a good approach to it. One thing I want to find is that we do we're

[56:26] eighty one of the goals and I don't know if it's intended this way but the review of

[56:31] the crime free multi housing program. We did repeal that and that was completed so I

[56:35] think that needs to be taken out or needs to be highlighted as I can

[56:38] accomplish item. It's kind of reading right now it says review so makes it sound like

[56:43] it's still intact. I don't know the intent is meant to be that re post review in

[56:46] terms of maybe more folks that have had a justice background are now house

[56:50] because of the repeal. I don't know if that's kind of the intent of it but just to

[56:55] find that that is still listed there on page sixteen of the report I believe it's

[57:00] page ten of technically the pdf but yet state speech check my progress from so

[57:06] just what they wanted to flag and I think the key page that really stands out for me hes

[57:11] only go to go for which is the increase availability effectiveness of emergency

[57:16] shelter and then you look at the general activities you know there's so much that is

[57:21] being invested. But those are still not enough beds that we know at the end of the day

[57:26] so where we are and then the transition from once you hit those days of how many

[57:30] days you could stay in those beds right continues to be that that gap and so I think

[57:35] for me really wanting to figure out in the action plan where that link is really

[57:41] being met to close now in terms of transition to other folks whether people like

[57:46] these lovely woman here who are providing in our community through other

[57:50] resources housing folks and even two and maybe in a broader conversation and I

[57:56] know this is an ever popular one but like what is it look like again for sober living

[58:00] homes and in the city or county's how many do we have or what our transitional

[58:05] spaces looking like and quite frankly I'm curious to know like where are we looking at

[58:11] an arena with the state's doing again county local governments in terms of how

[58:16] are we looking to actually partner with folks that are willing to make their homes

[58:19] become you know transitional spaces of living and is that something that we are all

[58:25] looking to continue to work on so just think there's layers we can always dive or

[58:32] deeper into just looking really quick when else. One thing I really want to flag

[58:35] cab because this comes up constantly for my commissioner of the deaf but

[58:40] in our action plan if we can have something come back for future again we have a

[58:43] discussion here which I've got we have helped member who has won the largest community

[58:48] in our community but one thing I hear from my commissioner is we need to

[58:50] have a more narrow conversation about housing are deaf community and that

[58:55] specifically that specific needs of types of housing but feeling left out of that

[58:59] dialogue and that has come a predominately so's maybe at a future date we could even

[59:05] have that be an item that we bring back and and this aspect grown seniors as well

[59:11] how are we continuing to fill that gap a need. I know I think there's always layers

[59:15] and I think a lot of the work we do here revolves around these discussions but happy

[59:19] to come bring again the action plan back maybe a couple years we could break

[59:23] up and then we can get some more feedback before we finalize it and make a

[59:28] recommendation to council for adoption but those would be my thoughts written thank you

[59:34] thank you and thank you everyone for being here today for free or feedback and

[59:40] input I appreciate it oh yes ok now we're going to close on this item moved to our

[59:49] legislative update a new chair. I can hear me. Yes we can say okay so very briefly

[59:57] I recently last week this in every leaf their proposed budget outline which provides

[1:00:01] five hundred million for the housing homelessness assistance program also known

[1:00:07] as a chat for around seven in the one billion dollars for around eight. It also

[1:00:11] includes one billion dollars for home ownership programs in a billion dollars for

[1:00:16] affordable housing as both the legislature and administration move towards

[1:00:21] doing the may revise and final budget. These numbers will come into play offs on

[1:00:26] the housing front both the housing bonds are still active moving so that sb four

[1:00:30] one seven by cobalt and an ab seven thirty six by assembly member weeks. They both

[1:00:37] remain to be like one of the few major funding proposals that are under

[1:00:43] consideration the senate bill has advanced through the committees and may now

[1:00:51] shift though from the june ballot to the november ballot that bill is currently in

[1:00:55] the assembly and again is counter party seven thirty six also remains active

[1:01:01] that's the end of my great wonderful thank you for the update and looking for

[1:01:05] any future items. Ok wonderful. No have any either actually when I made love to

[1:01:09] bring for dinner and made a note of this I apologize but I can smite this in

[1:01:15] the future we can have a report from the county as coc continued care continuum of

[1:01:22] care to share about the different resources that were working on throughout

[1:01:25] the region. How many folks are being served investments number for the housing units

[1:01:29] in the pipeline number for a supportive housing units. I'm kind of speaking to at my

[1:01:33] colleague mentioned about county again and you know that what we're having to try

[1:01:36] to work on together but I think we need to see the bigger picture and then

[1:01:41] we can narrow back in again on riverside and how are partnering but the effort we

[1:01:44] can bring that back in the future. Aside from that other items think you all for

[1:01:48] me here today have a good rest today

Housing and Homelessness Committee - Art Pick Council Chamber

Agenda

Transcript