Watching riverside be good afternoon we are at three thirty just ticking for our
city team so perfect there got me sure ally ready to go and I know have any recording
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workplace that provides dignity respect and civility to our employees customers
and the they serve. Thank you so much and we're going to move into our item we have a
pretty short discussion calendar today the first item is housing authority project
updates and actually first apart as we begin a comment my first comic art I have is
hawks worth and open up the phone lines again which are open so let me know if
there's anyone in line at once to speak but will start in the chambers. Mr. Hawks
were good afternoon city council staff and river siders my name is dan hawks
were they were within the cowboy street in riverside and I'm here to
talk about the city's progress or lack there of toward the regional housing
needs assessment goals which should be up on the screen effort that be put up but
that could. Yes there we go thank you mom. These are were presented to the council in
march of this year and this summarizes their progress from twenty twenty one on
the goals set forth here are to be achieved by twenty twenty nine and as you will
see we have a lot of work to do in riverside. Indeed in the very low income category
we have achieved only forty seven completed units out of a goal of four thousand eight
hundred and sixty one that is less than one percent of the goal that we have
obtained with only four years remaining. So we have a lot of work to do in regards to
very low the same is true of low income where we are only at nine point three percent
of the goal with two hundred and eighty four units then that moderate we've achieved
two hundred and fifty nine or eight point two percent of the goal home. However above
moderate we have achieved three thousand twenty three units or almost forty one
percent of the goal. So right now we're failing to produce affordable housing better
producing a lot of above moderate income. It's very disconcerting for me because
the very low income population that's really targeted at our home with
individuals and riverside has been static. If not increasing in homelessness
over this period because we happen to create haven't developed a very low income
category. In addition we have seniors who have no place to downsize to when our city
further we have you see our graduating students who are here who want to stay in
riverside but they can't find housing in riverside that is affordable. I know that we're
working hard on economic development but we need to have housing for those new
jobs that we produce them people want to live in the city they won one to work
better for them better for us it's better for our environment to have them
housed within our community so this is a um something I thought was important for
everybody to see a review before we had the discussion about the higher housing
pipeline today and um we have our work cut out for us thank you thank you mr. Hawkes
worth looking to see how many other comments for general come in the chambers that
there's any on line and the mind kate we're going to go in close apple comment and
come back to the chambers for discussion calendar and the first item we have is
housing authority project updates and also also put up the comment line for that
after five minute presentation and we have agra pina that afternoon we are
very good afternoon members of the committee staff and the I'm so glad people are
here to hear about all the wonderful things we are doing here in the city of
riverside. As of today we have three hundred and thirty six affordable housing units
in the pipeline that includes seventeen density bonus law units and ten california
housing crisis act units and we have an additional twenty four permanent supportive
housing units and forty one transitional housing units in various stages in
the pipeline for a total of four hundred and one units so we expect to have about
ninety of those online by the end of this year with a further forty nine in twenty
twenty seven. I am hoping that one hundred and fifteen that I have listed them for
it with twenty twenty eight will come in line by the end of twenty twenty seven
fingers crossed but I don't want to jinx it by putting in that category just yet. I ate
last time we have been asked to break down the units in the pipeline by the income
limit. So just to give you an idea of what we're looking at the units currently in
the pipeline hundred and thirteen are for people who are thirty percent of
the area median income or below one hundred and fifty seven four people at fifty
percent. Am I and a hundred and thirty one at eighty percent. Now the people that
one hundred and thirty one count is for a max of eighty percent. Some of those units
might shake out to be thirty or fifty percent as we progress in the process as of
right now they will be no more than eighty percent of the area median income
mulberry gardens. This project you probably are seeing it go up right off
the ninety one the scene year phase is very close to completion and expected to be
fully on line by fall of this year and they are starting to accept applications so we
have a meeting this week to make sure that we have all of our unit makes is correct
that we are making sure that everybody who lives there qualifies for all of
the units based on all of their funding levels that we have and so we will be
hearing about that soon some of the units that will be read reserved for people who
are referred to our homeless prevention programs. So we as we get closer I will let
everyone know what the processes for the open units for seniors and then a
brown that same time next year we expect of the family units coming online that
the hundred and fifty units and again as we get closer I will let everyone know what
the processes for applying for those family and its fourteenth straight to
the project is still in design review with path of life ministries. We are still
working with them to determine what their budget is and if any of our funding
sources will work for them the duplex at twenty three forty eight university. This
was meant to be on the april seven city council agenda. I too didn't award a bid to
demolish the building. It was pulled from the consent calendar time so we will be
reworking of that stuff reporter and bring it back am I for council approval as
soon as possible. The idea is that we're going to demolish this duplex and that needs
its foundation interior exterior walls and roof to be replaced. So we're just going
to demolish the whole thing and build from scratch and we're looking at working with
planning to put on additional units patterson senior housing at this project is
new to this presentation this will be at nineteen seventy patterson st. It has
been entitled it is through the retirement housing foundation so this will be
senior housing are looking at about sixty four units. We don't know the final unit mix
yet I'm so right now I am counting these all as eighty percent units as they apply
for more funding we will get a better idea of what qualifications will be for
those seniors. Great minds at twenty eighty two mission and we are still working with
the developer to finalize their pro forma. We want to make sure that this project
is fully feasible for the full fifty five years so that we can enter into a
disposition and development agreement with them and we can get going and phs has
also submitted a proposal for infill home ownership projects. So these will be
most likely pre manufactured housing that will be built on infill sites throughout
the city and these will be for home ownership. They have done similar projects
throughout the inland empire so we're very excited to get some more homeownership
opportunities here in the city this is the place at u m place this is going to be
our transitional housing in partnership with riverside university health systems. It
will be thirty wine a permanent housing units for people who qualify for
services through university either how it is currently in construction. They'd just
last week got to be electricity he fully upgraded and all of the permits in
place so they have power the construction is almost nine and we are expecting to
hear that we have certificate of occupancy. I need a now the riverside access center
which is just down from there is still in rehabilitation and the axis our stock has
been relocated so that way they can get in there and they're doing a full
rehabilitation of all of the a check systems and reorganizing the space so
that it's better for the staff there to help and assist the clients with their
needs as we transition them out of homelessness the cross community church. They have
been approved the conditional use permits they are still seeking funding and the city
is working with them to find funding opportunities of that work for their project
habitat for humanity is also working with the sunny home ownership project they have
two sites on garden street that they're looking to do thirteen single family houses
and eight eighty use. We are in the process of applying for permanent local housing
allocation I we have been told that this stay is changing the requirement so
that a certain percentage of our people ha funds are going to be required to be used for
home ownership. So once we figure out what exactly that amount to is we can start
working with habitat for humanity to figure out the final financing for this
project. Sunrise at bogart this one is in construction this is a picture taken from
their social media they're very very active there showing everybody exactly
what's going on. It's very exciting to see the projects taking shape their
groundbreaking was held last july and the amount of construction that they have
done since then is astounding so we're very excited for those and we do expect those
to be on those friday nights to come on line by end of year the phs this is another
site that they have ideas for a potential infill homeownership project. This
will be at gould so we are still reviewing their project poor performer on this one to
see what kind of funding they need to make this one affordable to a family or
density bonus projects that we have four currently through and this verse there
are planning department. So these are the projects where housing developers making
market rate units can sign on to build extra units of those units are sold to or rented
to low income families and so these are part of that portfolio and once
the projects are completed they will transfer over to us that we can monitor them
the california housing crisis act. So these are ten very low income units that we
are required to replace so those are something that we are working on right now
transferred transformative climate communities grant our current grant cycle is just
finishing up so we have over two thousand trees planted over fifty homes receive
solar installations and our riverside county workforce development helped over one
hundred residents of teen employment. The newer application is coming out and
so we are currently developing a project plan to apply for this next round of
tcc funding and recommend that the housing and homelessness committee
received this update on the housing authority's housing projects I am
available for any questions thank you so much. Check into question to just
checking if we have any comment for this item we do for number two. Dan talks
with and then I'll see if there's anyone else. Hello the city council members
staff and riverside thursday and hawks were again from the cowboy streets. Um I do
have a overhead for this one as well here we go thank you um I noticed that there are
twenty four permanent supportive housing units in the plan home. Those are I
would expect are following the housing first philosophy which is in the city's own
housing element it is also required by law all by the state to receive funding
from senate bill thirteen eighty housing first is a lot of the land in california and
we have to abide by that if we won state funding for any of our housing projects that
required within states tat toot. Unfortunately there's been discussion on the city
council that housing first is not effective. That is not what experts have found it is
not what finland socal housing collective as found after extensive amount of
research into the topic into all of the research done on it. We found that there are
seventy eight eighty six percent success rate in housing first housing first
realize basically back on a theory that was proposed and has been taught in psychology
since the nineteen forties and that's mad flows hierarchy of needs. People
need to address their physiological conditions first air food water shelter
clothing reproductions sleep the basics so people need to be hours before they can move
on. Safety comes next and within safety is but without housing without shelter
without the safety of a secure environment people can't move on or move forward
with their lives that is what housing first provides provides a safe environment
for people the address their physical mental emotional and in some cased and substance
abuse needs but they need to have a safe secure environment to do that. I
know for myself how difficult it is to follow through on a new year's resolution I have
safety I have shelter eye of love and belonging. I have this team but yet it's still
hard to make changes my life but we are asking people by putting away by threatening
to throw away housing first we're asking people to move jump up jump beyond him make
steps that we ourselves could make in changing their lives so I think we need to
reinforce we need to restate our commitment to housing first. So we can have a state
bonding for projects in riverside so we can reduce our home with project and we
can no longer turn aside ninety four of our economic our most vulnerable city
residents onto the streets as we did with university terrace thinking of a stock's
worth. Do we have any other comments on sample comments the chamber symphony line
ever had a question regarding the university one. Why was it pulled because that's been
a long time coming in and understand what happened there. Yes so cows
councilmember falcone had some questions about whether or not demolishing
the building was the best use of the site and so we went back and we talked with
planning the state at the historic preservation officer and we look at
the different options for that building including using it for potentially missing
middle housing or surpassing the property and using it for private development so we
went through a bunch of different options for the site so we're going to go
back and put it back on the city council agenda for a vote although it has been
indicated that it might be a split though at that time is well in this bird to move
wanted to demolish demolish it ok because we've been working on this for five
years extensively and I'll be frank I looked at all those options and we ultimately
came to this decision cell was little fresher it is leopold was unsure but wanted
to give them that opportunity too for you know if it comes we have more questions but
yet do we know a day that's coming back not for sure yet I'm still waiting on
confirmation. I want to make sure that all of the questions were raised
that we got are referenced in the staff report and the ones we make sure that that's
finalized will get a confirmation of what it will be coming back in action
affect the prior p process we had out for that. We're hoping not. It depends on how
long it takes to get back on the council agenda. Ok think you let me know if you need
help with that any other questions later. I'm sorry ma'am or yes in just a member
today. There's no art yet so I know that the arlington projects on to mix his
product to the sisters will use to be there searching that to be affordable housing
are how they've been reaching out to you guys to coordinate on that all or net so we had
reached out to them because we were under the impression that they were going to apply
for basic funding and so we wanted to create with them because we do need to get
resolutions on their behalf but we did not get a response back in time for this round
of a sick funding. So we're still trying to get open communication with them to
see maybe what other funding sources are good for that project. Ok got she is
talking to them that developers we brought them back to council for approval
of splitting a lot so that we got that done a couple weeks ago and then now is that
the condition for closing on the property in this other dude a phased approach
related you know bill a portion of it and buy from what they told me it sounds
like they weren't seeking any kind of grant funds are things that they can have
their own mechanism fun in at some of the funding source as they can but can't do
anything and told that lots plays fully complete so and there's different like timing
that happened so it just might be that it didn't quite work out for this round
because they were still in process. Okay okay and then also that we get updates we
have the pre preview plans but we also are using that to have pre approved use in that
order square foot plant to be a pre approves in the family home arms you can get a
primary residence on jess's eighty you so that should be coming to us in june july
issue of our own there are having that new licensing from the architecture firm
that did that is designed so that will be helpful tool for workforce housing or we can
have pre priests in the family has houses that can also have eighty on
the back of them as well for the small infill lots that exactly is about missing
metal component to it as well and were also at edc really bringing in a lot of work
force housing initiatives and things of that nature that we can look at accelerated
timelines to make sure we get housing bill because the time was all this housing is just
forever and were never going to catch up at this rate and so this is not irish I
promise is very much a california problem every city across california are really
hard time because the funds are so complicated it's it's a spider web of different
funding sources to get on the seat belt and so the out where having all
the resources available and making sure that we're doin all the different housing
types that were trying to do but for me thank you thank you so much now move on to
annex a them and will close comment would have any additional comments on line
and lamont or homelessness action plan and we have megan story coming up for fifteen
minute presentation and open up the comet lines for that as well. Good afternoon share
a memorable or even the other team to provide an update our home is action plan so
the second time a little bit really quick and this plan is actually proven october
twenty twenty two in alignment division riverside twenty twenty five strategic
plan and intention the plan was to provide establish a comprehensive framework to
address homelessness without the mission that was identified as a release to
the plan was to reduce homelessness by creating and maintaining an affordable
housing and program programming utilizing a whole person care purse just
support individuals and families to achieve housing stability and self
sufficiency and along with because it started so long ago there had been
significant revolutions in the business practices things that have changed our
operations include legislation changes funding sources are finding resources
and collectively the actual department and the city department structure has
changed significantly initially the office the homeless solutions was a
subdivision of cd and then later housing as a whole became a subdivision of
the city manager's office and finally established as its own standalone department
housing and human services department but however the cornerstone of the plant
the program stir means the same with the impact to us to assist the vulnerable
populations in the city riverside so that being said the actual department housing
and human services has been afforded the opportunity to achieve these outcomes as a
release to the first half of our fiscal year this year so we've been able to provide
fifty four clients with homeless prevention services three hundred and thirty nine
individuals with emergency shelter thirty six chip homes we have three and sixty units
in development which includes part of supportive housing we've been able to rapidly
re house a hundred and twenty one hundred and twenty nine clients provide thirty motel
vouchers provide a street outreach to thirty two hundred eight individuals and
that is a duplicated number meaning we might have contacted one person several
times only and we have three three thousand seven hundred and seventy nine affordable
housing units existing right now and our access center again even with
the modifications that other people mentioned we've been able to serve and a book at a
number of clients which includes one thousand six hundred and eight individuals
so the actual home shifting gears little but the actual homeless action plan is a
living document that focuses on six key goals today will be reviewing the city's
effectiveness in those goals are the spaces and giving ourselves a little report
card if you will. So the first objective was to increase housing production
four with a focus on affordability increase availability of services
prevent homelessness emergency shelter or expand awareness and corny regional
infrastructure so they move through this plan and are our report card are going to see
three different color coded check marks. If there's a green check mark it means we
accomplish this objective or goal or benchmark if it is yellow it means it's in
progress and if it's red it's something that we need to look out and modify and re
adjust our plans move forward so goal number one let's talk about her achievements
since our implementation of the plan and twenty twenty two acceptance of council's
plan and twenty twenty two we've been able to insure ninety percent of our
expiring affordable housing con cut covenant covenants are maintained a five percent
increase in affordable housing inventory fifty five for some market in affordable
housing units built annually and a five percent increase in number the number of sites
developed from the twenty team housing first plan possible areas that we can
improve or that we're still working on are the items that other people highlighted
kerry now the development of six hundred and eighty nine affordable units in
the pipeline for development and five and fifty market rate and affordable housing
units that were building annually and you can see on the screen that we have some
of the projects that again highlighted which includes the mulberry gardens and sun
rise above our products are really looking for casinos through to fruition. We also
during this reporting period had a few grand openings. We had a spy or complex which
provided thirty two units and the vista de la vista de la sierra had a really slow down
for that one which allow to stew in clare at eighty units to our portfolio. The city
has approximately has met approximate twenty percent of the reno or regional housing
needs assessment guidelines or obligations under department continues to work
with other departments and agencies to still reach toward meeting those goals
moving on to call number to increase the ability of services with a focus on
physical mental health and substance abuse disorder treatment. We have
successfully been part of the implementation of the care court which was
implemented on january first twenty twenty five in this space but partake in
particular you'll see we have a lot of goals that were in the process of reviewing our
process of working towards and some of those metrics what were some of those
metrics that we originally were trying to hold ourselves accountable for needing to
change just based on evolution of programming. So the first one our intention
was to increase the number of social work interns by fifteen percent annually. We
want to adjust that to change the goal to be an annual from an annual metric to a three
year metric increase in the skills to reduce retiree traumatized confidence and
job satisfaction among the peace that team the pan steam and outreach workers by
forty five percent and only willing to modify that objective to change the focus
on job satisfaction and create a survey to track those actual results related
to jobs job satisfaction the goal to refer ninety six individuals to physical and
behavioral health resources annually wanted to modify that to edit data field to
arc gis rgs twenty three survey for about rp center axis enter team members use
and partnering agencies so we are actually tracking what that's behavioral health
resources was the evil resources are if we approach allow low level metrics to
identify with those resources are. It allows us to better identify what we should be
bringing into the city of riverside to benefit the and finally modifying the gall to
refer fifteen individuals annually to the home court program annually to modify
again our metric that we measure that with with our joyous twenty three survey
that we use on the field and inside there's one more and then in modifying the goal to
increase the number of people who successfully replace to from street outreach by
twenty five percent annually to really identify not to say who is engaging on the street
but to him to provide the level of metric as to who we are placing and both
shelter and treatment programs. Goal number three I'm sorry other areas of
improvement I were looking toward modifying for goal number two were items that we
have not had the objective on really focused on the metric that was used as the platform
of our statistics so we really lean upon the point in time count and the goals that
were identified in the homeless homelessness action plan focused on and
lean upon the point in time count and there's the annual reference to the home a point
in time count. However that count is not done annually the county intends to change
it to be every two years every year depending on what's going on some of them
I have to do with health reasons some of them I have to do with just the metrics
of the hole so we want to modify our goals that are associated with an annual
representation of the point in time count to align them with the riverside point in
time keepers like any point in time count and whatever that is of its annual if it's
every two years that's what it would align with and to increase when we referred to
originally to increase the number of people except services from the piece that
and street nurses by twenty five percent annually we want to turn move the street nurse
segment of that gore because they measure about again separately. Moving on to goal
number three preventing homelessness. We've successfully provided eighty
four percent of rental assistance programs improve retention re annually
there's been a fifteen percent increase and duplicated number of home of
households assisted through rental assistance programs in the twenty twenty three
fiscal year and tend to temper some thereafter and we even rolled six individuals
to the shared housing program in early goals that are still in progress specifically
he'll steal lot of language in the report change aside from metrics may have a lot
of metrics associated with the point in time count we also wanted to update
the plan collectively down on the bus the update and every reference to the office
the homeless solutions or I s s to modify it to the housing and human services senior
program also one of the goals to refer singing five households annually to an
employment assistance program we wanted to change that to to refer at least eighty
percent of households in shelter and housing that can work goals that we wanted to
modify it again was just aligning the five percent annual decrease in
homelessness amongst those who are just as involved to a line out the point in time
count one of the things that is really important both for our team and for
the department is the hole and the city is to really memorialize our success
stories as a relief to the persons that are being implemented. So collectively
as a department we're working with the marketing and communications team to update
our website and make sure that we're sharing all the success stories because
these resources in these programs are utilized. We want to make sure that that
information gets out for all the folks that were able to re housed every home and keep
in their homes number for increased availability and effectiveness of emergency
shelter one goal that was achieved was to increase the number of emergency
shelter beds for twenty five percent in twenty twenty three. This is subject to
funding say wanted to make sure that was identified and the committee is going to
review the school's funding is needed to stand up additional shelter beds and
cover ongoing operational costs so it's not just ending up the emergency shelter it's
a continuation of the funding for the shelter shelters and increase the number of people
exiting emergency shelter to housing by ten percent annually cause that we have
not achieved are still working on again and related to the point in time counter
to decrease the numbers of un sheltered individuals by ten percent annually increase by
one point five percent in twenty twenty three to the number two from six
hundred and five to six hundred and fourteen twenty twenty five again providing
the level of metrics that allow us to align the point in time count with our
metrics that were providing for success as it relates to his goals and then increase
the number of people accepting shelter from the seating asian team an
outreach team with twenty five percent. Really the challenge we have but
this is ensuring that their data that we are collecting doesn't that allows us to and
duplicate numbers so when we're engaging with the same individual on a regular basis
does that count as one engagement or does that count is five engagements so really
being able to look at the point not a point in time count. Look at our various
data from the survey one two three and determine if it's the same individual or
encountering or a different individual goal number five expand awareness of
the areas of improvement that we anticipate making as that we had an annual increase
the goal of making an annual increase of three on cause related to host activity by
decreasing it by ten twenty five percent thereby decreasing nine on one calls
related to homelessness. One of the things that we noticed too is that we needed to get
data. There was a gap in the data that was provided to our department and were
requesting that the fire department provide monthly reports to hhs that
identifies the high frequency of users of services so again if you have the same
occurrence of an individual that's out on the streets that needs medical services
what are the services are needed where that reoccurring problem happening and how can
we infuse existing resources to assist in that matter and the goal to decrease by fifty
percent. The traffic to the office of homelessness solutions web page annually
with the evolution of our department and the structure of our department we are
working with marketing again to scrub the web page to make sure that we are providing
resources that the will use and reference on a regular basis. Goal number six corny
corny regional infrastructure we have attended twenty five continued care and committee
meetings in you and advocated for the increase of shelter beds mental health programs
and affordable housing based on gap analysis and increase the number of emergency
shelter bus driver's account of a ten percent by twenty twenty for one of the goals
that we need to work on or that we want to modify is the maintaining of fifty cold
weather shelter bed program annually and the reason for this the move by the one of
her move this gore modify the school was that it's recommended that riverside
county find another location to it within the county to stand at this program because
riverside has really toed the line for this program for a number of years and as you
already know riverside is a resource for a lot of other regional me. Countywide
programs so we wanted to share the opportunity with another city to provide
the level of service the recommendations of this time is that the city county
committee receiving father presentation on the homeless action plan update and
provide any feedback on recommended changes including the following replacing any
references office homeless solutions with the housing is ours as department change
the reporting period because the reporting period as it stands on the report at this
time is october through september so modify in alignment with our fiscal
year from july one to june thirtieth and with that the department like to
provide the committee with an annual update in september of every year and specifically
as a release the affordable housing space remove seventy three eighty two and seventy
three eighty four garden street from the housing first plan cites as entropy
mentioned those are being presented as affordable housing city as home
ownership properties through habitat for humanity and with that chair seventeen second
clip my presentation. Thank you so much appreciate that will go to comment now and
we give the cards in the audience of animes can know for some folks after we
get the comment. My daughter has he. Are you seasick showcase sets tonight I have
to get her there before five pm so I wanted tied tightly personally I want to cancel
today's meeting but if lor the whole comment how to staff member for maybe in
the future for one to die more and sometimes the report maybe we could bring it back
and you get into some more of the details out and be able to get more input so I do
apologize for that. This time was running a little bit tight today but let's start
off comment. We have clear jefferson and then we have becky wiley the afternoon
committee I want to first think I that department. We partner with on this report
many of claire definitely proud executive director of family promise of riverside
we exclusively serve families experiencing homelessness. I want to
highlight how much this department is under resource and underfunded the fact that
this um that our goal toward decreasing homelessness has not been met is not at all a
reflection of the hard work the partnership for the understanding of
the challenge. It is quite literally a reflection of the diocese and their lack of
understanding of the complex levels of support that truly addressing homelessness
require and so as committee members who I believe are committed to ensuring that
every riverside or has a home I'm going to encourage you to dig deep to work harder to be
more creative in more innovative to think about what it means for us to truly
as ex city make a commitment to every riverside are to be able to sleep indoors and
that is going to take a multi pronged multi disciplinary million if not billion dollar
support in order to make sure every single riverside or has a place to call home. That is
something we can achieve if we work together right. I work on it every single day
and partner with these amazing folks along with hundreds of other nonprofit
and faith based organizations this is something we need to believe is possible if we
lead with our heart first and we engage in every possible opportunity we cannot afford
to miss a single opportunity of any type of shelter housing affordability for
homeownership. We have to double down on our commitment and it's got to start with
the leadership in this room and so I encourage you to reach out to organizations
like myself that work on this challenge every single day pressed to think about how
to build a better stronger more empathetic and more powerful riverside a strong
riverside the riverside where everyone is guaranteed home this is an economic impact
to each and everyone of us. I hope we all can stand here today and saying we are
committed to a strong powerful empathetic caring river site. Thank you mr.
percent of iq wat li and then we have oops sorry but I shun morrow morrow sorry punches
from iraq have at the wiley ward one. So there are so many things about this I'd
like to talk about but I have three minutes a minute and keep it down for you counsel
him. I first I just wanna mention. No offense to the apartment I know they put
a lot of work into this and I truly appreciate everything that you've done but we
should be focusing on goals as numbers and percentages when you use add data fields
as a goal that's just a strategy or action to get the information needed. I
want to hear that nine ninety six people got house I want to hear we have a ten percent
increase and from this to this I appreciate that the problems with the number
of outreach when they're out there you're going to be talking to them more than one
time the entire issue with being homeless while there's a multitude of reasons
they're homeless. They're going to need assistance whether it be buyer coming
out because they've had heat stroke or there may be in just a too much of some
substance or they were caught urinating in or or or or all of this outreach would be
decreased if we had places for them to live. We cannot move people from home less to
what affordable housing it's not the same thing if we truly want to do something
about the homeless people in our community we have to have housing for them and that is
permanent supported housing we can't just put them in some shelter and not give
them the assistance they need the whole purpose so I don't get back into that again
community outreach. It doesn't help us when four of the city council members are
telling their constituents in newsletters and in forums that they are against
permanent supportive housing I'm looking at you councilman rubble art even if
you're not looking at me. We have to be in sync with what we're saying we have to be
making true outreach on this we could have said we increase the number of people
we moved from homeless to housing. Had we accepted the university terrace homes
money. How is this any different than the permanent supportive housing coming
down the line are you going to be against that too or will it not matter because
it's not next to a friend's business. Thank you miss wiley we have bush on
something they're eight. Ok wonderful then we have dan hawks were than susan. Ok
the only name is bush on morrow. I am a social work student of the county's
somebody know I am accompanied by my classmates easy kyra and carol m for our
last semester and are junior year we were tasked with creating a community action
project where we identify a social problem within the community and help
provide a solution so we won out and surveyed the community of riverside to
determine where a social problem is we received an overflow feedback from
residents stating that holland the homeless population is a social
problem within their community a lot of the residents felt like their
stuff in them on the streets were hindering and well being and quality of life. So our
group partnered with paoli presbyterian church which is down this tree right next to
riverside community hospital volunteer to help them prepare and serve meals to
the homeless while also providing hygiene kits in resource kurds british to be
some give kurds and hayden kids to the people that are on the streets better. And
how's this population is often vulnerable overlooked in this judge urged the board
members the community the community the state and the stakeholders to get out
and serve and provide resources to these individuals we cannot
complain about them being on the streets if we do not get out and help them. Thank you
thank you so much and we have dan talks with and then susan approach to problem. Good
afternoon again dan hawks fourth ward three. Just a quick note to what I
discussed earlier we discussed a lot about affordable housing but most
people don't understand what those levels are so very low income is under thirty nine
thousand dollars low income is under sixty three thousand dollars in so um moderate
income is eighty seven thousand so above moderate is our poor people making more
than eighty seven thousand dollars the year. There you see the gap that we have
which reflects the lack of progress that we're having on homelessness here in
riverside. While we look at a neighbor the city of redlands home authorized and have put
on has created a hundred unit permanent supportive housing project during the sense that
it opened in the last two years two years in a row each year they decried home with
us by thirty percent each year if that happened in riverside we would have three
hundred less people almost fifty percent reduction in the number in riverside. Yet
we're turning down projects that would remove people from our street it would have
taken ninety four individuals from our street and place them in permanent supportive
housing reducing the numbers by one third of those on the waiting list which is
about two hundred and fifty two according to michelle davis right now on board
seeking housing. These are home with individuals who are seeking housing right now
the other issue are like to address is that we are under funding our home with efforts
here and yet we have put on the ballot measure z measure z has no additional money
coming for homeless services in the plan for the four forthcoming years. So even
though it's listed as the beneficiary and it had received some funding from
the original measure z it would receive no additional funding with the tax increase
that to me is a major oversight. We have an affordable housing crisis in
riverside. We have a home with crisis in riverside. We are leaving six hundred and
twenty people on our street almost fifty percent of them want housing and we're
failing to deliver to them we need to dedicate bonds we have the opportunity to
secure twenty million in state bonds and we turned it away. So how are we going to
build affordable housing if we're not tapping into state funding in the future is that
going to be the responsibility of riverside taxpayers. Thank
you thank you mr. Potts with susan after know I'm here we have a transitional home
kiana mind ardor and I she's here with their class in moreno valley we've had it
since august of twenty twenty three about a year and a half ago hope housing removed all
of our residents from us without any explanation and I'm trying to see if their
grievance process we can do to find out why they took our people from it and can talk
to rachel robbins about maybe a week and a half ago and she just said people have a right
to go where they wanna go but they were already in our house and they took
the people and place them other places without any explanation we did have a
guide of mine that was moved to that home in riverside were five people that stand
he was one of the people that got staff his case manager ask why can't he stay
at our house that's where he wanted to be and he had other people he wanted to place
there and dry mouth from county and hope said there are a vendor of ours but
they're not on the list the vendors we know deal with anymore so many have an
outlet that even a minute left your comment we can respond in comment. Okay
baby q and I would recommend is just a robot checking someone will comment there or
for in chambers any other comment on line see if there's any nomar ok so close
to the comment I would just suggest my apologies were not for man not familiar with
the issue you raise but if you want to check in at the end with megan's toys
with their housing human services team. Perhaps he can get your information and see
if there's any follow up we could try to provide about your situation okay yeah I go
find out it's curling city or county but will try to see if we can learn more ok thank
you for being here today appreciate it. Great and counting. Okay I'm hearing
him sing its county so lab will circle will try to get you there and contact
information for the right folks the ship I connect with thank you coming back to
committee looking to animate my ai we don't have love I share with us today he
encouraged had a conflict but I looking over to come to regard skip it really short
respect your time the you know again there's a lot as I want to go into on the on
the housing action plan but it really comes down to is you know shows before is that
all those resources from the county are located in inner city and as you
mentioned a lot of our seas around easter chicks around us. Brain in people and they
stay inner city and purses are enough resources for them existing already and they
end up in our city and I think our partners are all are not partners but our
surrounding cities are neighbors are all too happy to just top up either prom
anymore and it's you know the washer and dusky let it go and that kind of comes
down to a mention about spreading out services have in other cities opportunities
to house his services because we can't be relied upon for the entire county to house
the publisher the county because we've historically been used that way and is
kind of legitimate reasons for that you know the county see all of course you have
more resources here in the county seat but until our partners you know this is say
statewide are other states are you utilizing the state california's investment into
housing and statewide we've seen billions of billions of dollars invested at our
population continues to grow grow grow and it's and I think that is opportunity
from other people who are just taken out of aberdeen is a son over there and this are
probably more and so we really need to have kind of a more of a regional look at
our own homes us because we do not have the resources again we say is underfunded
a billion dollar investment seaver aside as I have a billion dollars to invest in
this state funding national funding the way it works and goes to counties and then to
us and we really liked our county partners into other cities are in our county to
regionally look at this housing plan because we can't be in our own and so there's
a lot want to go into but a scarf. Leave it there thank you thank you for
the additional comments and I am but I would suggest don't think this is something we
want to rush I do apologize for my conflict to having to buy certain time but what I
would plan will work to do work with them michelle's work to set the agenda for
future meetings is bring back some of these pieces I think a new engagement was a key
when we heard from folks either jen or activities are again how we sold many
breaking up the goals and we can have them and pair it with maybe a presentation
from one of those partners that were working with a man committee can give more input
out and hear more from community as we work to strengthen the action plan
that could be a good approach to it. One thing I want to find is that we do we're
eighty one of the goals and I don't know if it's intended this way but the review of
the crime free multi housing program. We did repeal that and that was completed so I
think that needs to be taken out or needs to be highlighted as I can
accomplish item. It's kind of reading right now it says review so makes it sound like
it's still intact. I don't know the intent is meant to be that re post review in
terms of maybe more folks that have had a justice background are now house
because of the repeal. I don't know if that's kind of the intent of it but just to
find that that is still listed there on page sixteen of the report I believe it's
page ten of technically the pdf but yet state speech check my progress from so
just what they wanted to flag and I think the key page that really stands out for me hes
only go to go for which is the increase availability effectiveness of emergency
shelter and then you look at the general activities you know there's so much that is
being invested. But those are still not enough beds that we know at the end of the day
so where we are and then the transition from once you hit those days of how many
days you could stay in those beds right continues to be that that gap and so I think
for me really wanting to figure out in the action plan where that link is really
being met to close now in terms of transition to other folks whether people like
these lovely woman here who are providing in our community through other
resources housing folks and even two and maybe in a broader conversation and I
know this is an ever popular one but like what is it look like again for sober living
homes and in the city or county's how many do we have or what our transitional
spaces looking like and quite frankly I'm curious to know like where are we looking at
an arena with the state's doing again county local governments in terms of how
are we looking to actually partner with folks that are willing to make their homes
become you know transitional spaces of living and is that something that we are all
looking to continue to work on so just think there's layers we can always dive or
deeper into just looking really quick when else. One thing I really want to flag
cab because this comes up constantly for my commissioner of the deaf but
in our action plan if we can have something come back for future again we have a
discussion here which I've got we have helped member who has won the largest community
in our community but one thing I hear from my commissioner is we need to
have a more narrow conversation about housing are deaf community and that
specifically that specific needs of types of housing but feeling left out of that
dialogue and that has come a predominately so's maybe at a future date we could even
have that be an item that we bring back and and this aspect grown seniors as well
how are we continuing to fill that gap a need. I know I think there's always layers
and I think a lot of the work we do here revolves around these discussions but happy
to come bring again the action plan back maybe a couple years we could break
up and then we can get some more feedback before we finalize it and make a
recommendation to council for adoption but those would be my thoughts written thank you
thank you and thank you everyone for being here today for free or feedback and
input I appreciate it oh yes ok now we're going to close on this item moved to our
legislative update a new chair. I can hear me. Yes we can say okay so very briefly
I recently last week this in every leaf their proposed budget outline which provides
five hundred million for the housing homelessness assistance program also known
as a chat for around seven in the one billion dollars for around eight. It also
includes one billion dollars for home ownership programs in a billion dollars for
affordable housing as both the legislature and administration move towards
doing the may revise and final budget. These numbers will come into play offs on
the housing front both the housing bonds are still active moving so that sb four
one seven by cobalt and an ab seven thirty six by assembly member weeks. They both
remain to be like one of the few major funding proposals that are under
consideration the senate bill has advanced through the committees and may now
shift though from the june ballot to the november ballot that bill is currently in
the assembly and again is counter party seven thirty six also remains active
that's the end of my great wonderful thank you for the update and looking for
any future items. Ok wonderful. No have any either actually when I made love to
bring for dinner and made a note of this I apologize but I can smite this in
the future we can have a report from the county as coc continued care continuum of
care to share about the different resources that were working on throughout
the region. How many folks are being served investments number for the housing units
in the pipeline number for a supportive housing units. I'm kind of speaking to at my
colleague mentioned about county again and you know that what we're having to try
to work on together but I think we need to see the bigger picture and then
we can narrow back in again on riverside and how are partnering but the effort we
can bring that back in the future. Aside from that other items think you all for
me here today have a good rest today