Oversight Board for the City of Riverside as Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency - Regular Meeting

It is 09:00, so we're gonna just check-in and see if we're good to go live. Oh, there we are. Okay. Great. We're gonna do it's 9AM, and we are here for the Housing Homelessness Committee special meeting. We have here today for our agenda two items, but we are gonna begin with opening up public comment. For members of the public that would like to comment, you can call (951) 826-8686 and follow the prompts to access your desired language. Star nine to be placed in the queue to speak. Individuals in the queue will be prompted to mute by pressing star six. You can also join via Zoom and select the raise hand function to request to speak.

An on screen message will prompt you to unmute and speak. Public comments are limited to three minutes. I don't believe we have any public comment cards here in the chambers. Do we have any callers online? No. Perfect. We have no hands raised, so we're gonna go ahead and close public comment, for the opening, and we're gonna move to our first discussion item, and it is a presentation. Love your neighbor collaborative social work Interim Program. And we have Chris Oberg, Path of Life Ministries Chief Executive Officer. Director Oberg, please join us. Thank you for being here this morning.

Thank you, Councilman Byrne. Good morning to this committee and to the city staff. Is a happy privilege every time we get to talk about a mighty and quiet program called Love Your Neighbor Collaborative. I was standing in the lobby of the downtown main library a few months ago with a group of consultants and a citizen came off of the elevator and walked over to the reception desk and in a loud voice said, I'm here for my social worker. And the reception desk at the library pointed to the adjacent room tucked around the corner, snacks, water bottles, a very unpretentious sign and a student social worker was sitting and waiting.

This is how the quiet yet mighty work works across our city libraries. The initiative began as a social work internship program in Ward 7 when a group of employees at La Sierra University thought there's got to be a better way than giving out free food and bus passes. The challenges are deeper and more systemic. The social work department on the campus stood up, offered some student internships, and the first version of the social work internship was born. In 2018, former mayor Rusty Bailey noticed the program and decided to bring it under the umbrella of the city.

2018, a variety of service models were tried. They were complicated and they were spread out over the city. Then the bright idea came to think about the city library properties. So, in 2022, we nestled into the city library properties alongside Director Aaron Christmas. It's long been known that vulnerable residents use the libraries, safe, welcoming space, climate controlled restrooms, Wi Fi, access to searching for their services alongside the opportunity to escape in a book for a few hours.

So this is where and why we landed with the city libraries because we also know folks are using the library as a social location for their services. In the next slide, you'll see pictures of our team members, Jasmine Sajadi and Erica Davidson. Important to this program is the frontline staff. Two frontline staff lead this program. Jasmine as our social work supervisor provides the required professional oversight necessary for the social work profession and the campuses with whom we collaborate.

Erica Davidson is our social work specialist who also happened to be an intern in this program. And she carries the stable case management responsibilities across all library locations. I think that it's important you hear Jasmine's voice this morning as part of our brief report because Jasmine has been significant in the clinical shaping of the way the services are delivered today.

Good morning. March is National Social Work Month, so I'm especially honored to be here to highlight the value of this social work internship here in Riverside. My name is Jasmine Sajadi, and I'm a licensed clinical social worker, and I supervise the LINC program. This work is deeply meaningful to me, and I'm passionate about supporting the next generation entering our field. For those who may not know, social work students are required to complete internships as part of their education.

Undergraduate students complete an internship during their senior year, while master's students complete internships during both years of their program. These internships are designed to give students the opportunity to apply what they've learned in the classroom in real world settings. Social workers are trained to support some of our most vulnerable populations, survivors of sexual assault, individuals experiencing homelessness, older adults, justice impacted individuals, young people navigating life upon exiting the foster care system, and many, many more. While students gain foundational knowledge through coursework and classroom role play, there's no substitute for hands on experience in the field. Internships allow students to develop these critical skills in real time while serving members of our community.

Programs like Love Your Neighbor Collaborative or LINC create opportunities for social work interns from local and online universities to actively support individuals in need while gaining meaningful supervised experience. In addition to building professional skills, internships also foster personal growth. As social workers, we are constantly called to reflect on our own experiences, perspectives, and biases. This self awareness is essential to providing ethical and compassionate care. Ultimately, these internships are essential to developing a social worker.

They expand support for our community and ensure that future social workers are well prepared, thoughtful, and effective in their roles. And there's always the hope that a LINC intern will choose to live out their career as a social work professional right here in Riverside. Thank you.

You can see in front of you the most requested services across the five libraries that we've been a part of this last year. Each library has a different volume and a different engagement with programs. Needs assessments are done in all of these locations. Jasmine and the team carry these needs assessments out and then we know how to target the services. The report provided to you this morning by Michelle Davis is a snapshot of those services noting three twenty nine citizens accepted more than 900 unique services last year.

So these two staff year round and 15 short term interns did this work providing over 1,500 in kind professional service hours. It's interesting to me that life skills education is at the top of the list. These are those very basic and practical everyday skills that adults need for independence and decision making for self regulation and financial capacity. Goal setting, for example. Some additional insight I would offer to the data that Michelle provided you, almost half the people we meet at the libraries identify as people experiencing homelessness for greater than twelve months.

So they are chronically homeless. And while in our industry we usually serve more men than women, at the libraries we serve a higher percentage of women. De escalating, putting a buffer between the library staff and guests and people utilizing the library for their services. This was a goal also of this internship program and it has turned into real services to everyone involved. We are delighted by these outcomes and as I tell Jasmine often, once in a while along the way we accidentally house people.

Providing year round care is a commitment that Path of Life makes. Though we don't always have student interns in the summer, we do make sure we keep a case manager available at all the libraries. Jasmine rightly identified the ethical commitment of walking people through stability, that it would not be right for us to suspend services during the summer, much like the library provides food for children during the summer months. New to our program, Erica, she attends that ongoing case management that I referred to. So as we conclude this morning, I want you to know that there are three twenty nine different stories.

And that is what is the most important and maybe the most honoring thing we could do with our time to you is for you to be aware. Not pictured this morning is someone named Matthew. Matthew who came to us more recently, a 33 year old single man experiencing homelessness and he had a desire to return home. He was in Riverside but he has family in Chicago, Illinois. And so the link program was able to coordinate with that family and provide what we call family reunification services, a Greyhound bus ticket.

Sometimes the stories are more simple like this. The first link client we met, Roberto I will never forget in 2022, complex, thick stories, a man closer to my age out of the foster care system and his crisis began in a domestic dispute when a partner took all of his identification and threw it out a car window while they were driving through the streets of Riverside. And he is experiencing homelessness and has no ID now. And so stories can be very thick like that. Let me tell you about one picture.

The next slide will show you Maribel. Three years of experiencing homelessness. We're happy to tell you today that Maribel is settled. This is Roberto. And we've known him for many years, downtown Main Library. Maribel, she is settled into a place of her home. She's a survivor of domestic violence. Jasmine told you we do see lot, come into touch with a lot of these stories. She's also stabilizing herself in her journey with alcohol use. She's worked hard to build stability in her life.

We met her at the Arlington Library. She had moved in and out of sober living environments. And now with fixed income, this becomes a challenge, you know, where can folks live and find housing. She has a part time job cutting hair, loves to do hair design, and that's her work now. She is now in some stable housing and we handed her off to additional case providers from a different program now. So she is building her life and her foundation is solid and her case managers are beside her. And that happened because she was at the Arlington Library. The next picture, Kendrick. We met Kendrick at the downtown branch, Riverside Library. Kendrick was experiencing homelessness for several years.

He has some physical limitations and a justice involved background, and these become barriers to finding employment. Many leads for employment, but it was challenging. He does qualify for certain supportive housing programs, so he is now living in his own space. Link was able to provide essential household items. Donors for Path of Life also come alongside at times and do this very thing, housing, beds, pots and pans, food, bus passes, etcetera.

Kendrick is now in his own unit. He is reconnected with his passion for music, and he is no longer homeless in Riverside. The next picture, Katie, single mother. She spent months rebuilding her life after leaving a long term violent relationship. Her priority was her children. We met her at the La Sierra Library. She was supported navigating the social systems, employment, community resources. It was really her own strength and resilience, however. It was her own guts. She secured her first apartment in her own name with the support of Riverside County.

She moved into her apartment the week of Christmas. I remember this story very well. I remember telling Director Christmas, we're moving someone in. Katie is in her home. She's enrolled at Riverside City College. She's pursuing a career in real estate and she has a part time job. Deeply grateful for connecting with her at the city library. And finally, Emery, who is not pictured. Emery's a single mother who lived in Riverside for several years, had a long term job for eight years, and then was part of a company wide layoff. And her work to find new employment was not enough.

She was now housing insecure. The LINC program offers homeless prevention, and so it was part of the homeless prevention funds of this contract that could step in, pay a portion of the rent, utilities, keep the family housed while Emory searched for new work. We met her at the Arlington Library. Interestingly enough, if you are housing secure at home and you can't afford your own WiFi, a city library can help you. The son was able to get his homework done, mom's able to look for work.

They were able to stay housed during this time, and today, Emory's employed the Riverside University, well, originally the school district and now with the Riverside County Department of Public Social Services, a full time role, and she was able to exit the LINC program. It is a great day, any day, we can talk about the Love Your Neighbor Collaborative. We could not do this work without the librarians you see who were able to join us this morning, Director Christmas and a team of leaders across the city who have been vital to delivering these services. Thank you for the opportunity to report this morning and we are happy to answer any questions.

Thank you so much, Director. And we'll open up public comment to see if there's any callers. I don't see any comment cards in the chambers, so we'll just see if there's any, public comment online before we come back to committee. No hands raised. Okay. So we'll go ahead and close public comment. And council member Mill, any questions, comments?

Thank you for taking the time to be here this morning. Quick question. I see in the report, it says that the program was ended library in Casablanca in April. Why was that?

Hi, council member. Good after good morning, council members. Erin Christmas, your library director. I think that might be an error in the report. It was at the east side library until April. It stopped being at

My bad. I I I misread it. It wasn't always a it's because of construction.

Yes. That's the only reason. It wasn't a we'll bring it back. We want to bring it back, but we need a a solid home for it.

Got it. My bad.

No. No worries. No worries.

I love the question because your face was so serious. Went, Jasmine, I know we're not at Eastside because of construction. What happened at Casablanca?

We've been

at Casablanca.

We're excited to be in the new Eastside location. I know.

Thanks thanks for the report. Good things happening. Appreciate your guys' efforts, all you do. And again, thanks to the library staff. I always talk about libraries are so much more than just periodicals and books. There's so much more to them. This is just another example of how our libraries are an integral part of the community. So thank you guys for that.

Thank you. Thank you, vice chair. I do have a couple questions, director, and would love to just ask so my main question is how do we double this? Like, how do we because I see we have so it's it's one full time social work specialist and 15 social work interns. Are all those work interns coming from Los Air University?

Oh, no. So we are collaborating with about a dozen universities Amazing. So it took us I I joined Path of Life in 2022. You may have understood or read through the the veiled report. This program started in my neighborhood at my church.

And I had no idea when I came to Path of Life that it was housed here. So I joined in 2022 and we then began to rebuild the program because it was in this kind of fragmented model across the city. So at the libraries, we have to know that we have stable funding and stable opportunity in order to engage these universities. So we have memorandums of understanding with about a dozen universities. So Cal Baptist is actually one of our anchoring universities and we have a functioning advisory, professors from Cal Baptist, Loma Linda, La Sierra, and then about a dozen universities sending us students.

We are capped at a ratio of about eight interns to one supervisor. Jasmine provides the field supervision and the weekly feedback loops and then all those connections back to the campus. So when you ask how would you double this program, the model is replicable. You just step up.

Great. So, we would need more of the full time social work specialists that could help to administer Yeah. Work with the

And I think that's what's unique but also integral about the program. It is an academic program. You can't skip that step.

Yes. Yeah, that's important. Wonderful to see the tangibles. And actually, my kind of follow-up question, I wonder because we have challenges in the field, you know, with with folks receiving saying yes to services. And I know that sometimes, I think we're we're kind of reviewing the pairing with our police officers, and we know that when you're out there, we know we have officers with our PCEP, with our workers because of safety issues that happened in the past.

But I guess I wanted to ask, do we feel that people are more that they're more willing to accept services because there is either, again, the library feels like a safer setting or, you know, maybe because we don't have police officers. I know there's security. So can we can you kinda share what does that engagement look like with I know we have security guards that are on-site. Has there ever had to be you know, pull them in with stuff? Or I guess kinda could you could you share more about the environment and the interaction that's happening with these individuals?

Yeah. So each of our locations, we we have a lot of support from the libraries to have our own designated space. So everyone knows that we're in the same space every week on designated days and times for that location. I think we've observed that our people are comfortable coming to talk with us, especially as we're building that relationship. And it's important to us that we're there consistently so they know, you know, let's say their stuff gets stolen, they lose their things, the elements, you know, they can't they no longer have their phone, we're still in the same place.

And so they know that they can come and tap us for support. Additionally, we found when opening a new library location, for example, Marcy is our newest location, we're there on Wednesdays, that in the beginning stages, it's usually quieter. However, when we've been there a certain amount of time and people, our unhoused community members that are there either inside the library often or right outside of the library often, we've observed that the longer we're there consistently, the more engagement we have. So I think that our consistency and the relationships we've built help our people feel comfortable coming to talk with us.

Great. That's wonderful.

Yeah.

I love that. So, I just I would commend, of course, all the hard work. And, I don't know, Director Christmas, if you could come up as well and would love if you wanted to share maybe a little bit from your employees' perspective of your own of how you feel that it's been a success. Or again, what has it done to further enhance the work that's being done at the library in a different kind of community service?

Sure. So I think one of the ways that this has been incredibly successful for library staff is giving our staff members that resource right on hand, right on-site for when we're working with customers who experiencing a variety of mental health issues that we are not equipped to handle ourselves. That is not a skill set library staff bring to the table necessarily. So knowing that we have resources right there. Additionally, we have done escalation training with Path of Life.

They've provided that to all of our library staff as part of this program. We do a lot of trainings together. So we're all speaking in one voice with our library customers. They work with our guards. We've seen a decrease generally in our incidents, and not so much in the number of incidents, but in the severity of incidents.

Right? By reducing something from somebody when someone gets agitated during an incident and then it has to be excluded, it's nice if we can stop it at just a level of agitation that doesn't require RPD being called. And having the social workers on-site, they help out with those things. They help we had a very unfortunate drug overdose at one of our library locations. They jumped in and knew exactly staff knew what to do, but they really knew what to do.

And it's all of those people working together to make a difference. And I think it creates a safer environment for all of our library customers, right? Because you know that people are getting the services they need, but are also following the rules that we have in place to make sure these are comfortable spaces for everybody in the community. And so, to us, this is just a key critical program in our organization. I'm so grateful we had ARPA dollars to start the program. So grateful that we're working with Michelle and her team being able to continue this program because it is such a critical service in our facilities.

Great. Do you feel that because we know that folks, again, in our house community are having to come to our libraries regardless to, as you said, use the Wi Fi, use the restroom. Do you feel this program has actually helped make our libraries safer by having the the additional support?

Yes. No question for both staff and the public.

And What about

that? If you ask, the staff at Marcy were begging for the social workers to come to Marcy because we knew we had a need there. And so when we were able to launch that, the staff on-site were thrilled. When we launched it over at La Sierra, same thing. And those are the two we launched this year. So those are the most current stories of people being very excited. But overall, we're thrilled. Nationwide, people are adding social workers to library spaces. Social workers are not inexpensive by themselves. And in our system, to do the level of work we would have to do, it would be far more costly than this program is to have this level of service in our libraries. So to us, this is just a wonderful opportunity for our community.

Great. Thank you so much. Appreciate that. You. And Michelle, just the last question, do you think there's a future where we could look at adding another social worker or someone to help so we could maybe increase this?

We are actually taking a staff report to council on April 7 to continue funding the program for two years through the HAP grant. Great. So there's an opportunity to talk about it at that time as well.

Fantastic. Thank you. Love Well, to hear thank you all. Appreciate you being here today. We're gonna move on to our next agenda item. But can we give a round of applause to our folks and our social workers and for all their hard work? Thank you for the difference that you make. It's absolutely incredible, and looking forward to continuing to share these success stories with our community. Wonderful. Our next and last item we have for today is going to be our housing authority updates. And I believe we have Agrippina. Yes.

Good morning. It's been a while since I've given my update to the committee. So, a lot of changes, but we're getting closer. So as of right now, in our development pipeline, we have 296 affordable housing units in some form of production. Of those, 22 are permanent supportive housing, 17 are part of the density bonus law, and then we have 10 that are from the California Housing Crisis Act.

And of those 296 units, 41 are transitional housing. So of these units we have in the pipeline, 90 of them are expected to come online this year. So some of those are our transitional housing through behavioral health, and then the others are from the Mulberry Senior Project. So Mulberry Gardens, I know very many of you came to the groundbreaking for the family phase. So the senior phase is what is hopefully coming close to the end of construction, end of summer is what we're looking at right now.

So of those that are coming up, that's gonna be 59 affordable senior housing units. Of those, 25 are set aside for seniors that are homeless or at risk of homelessness, and we are working on giving them some last minute funding for the entire project just because costs of construction have increased and delays and things like that. So those agreements will be coming to council soon. Oh, is Chris still here? This is the 14th Street project with Path of Life.

I just had a talk with her this morning, and she says that they are they have some, good funding in mind and that this project is getting going. This is 2348 University Avenue. We have accepted a bid to completely demolish and remediate the property for asbestos and lead. So that will be coming to council soon so that we can award that demolition contract. Then once the property is cleared, we can go through the process of planning something new and hopefully get more than the two units that we have there.

I have been in talks with planning about maybe you know, adding ADUs, j ADUs, mixing and matching, because we really wanna maximize the number of affordable housing units that we can get on our city owned properties. Grapevine, this is the project that is done jointly with the successor agency. So my understanding is the successor agency contract is going forward. And once they get us their final pro formas to prove their affordability, we can move forward with the housing authority phase to do the affordable housing component. The place at Hewlett, this is the one at University Health Systems.

This is gonna be 31 permanent housing units. Construction is almost done. We were hoping to have it done by the March, but it looks like it is getting scooted into April. But we will expect to have this fully leased up and operational by the summer. The Riverside Access Center is in the middle of its remodel.

So a lot of our staff are kind of in different spaces while we're getting this done. But this, when we have it finished, will be a lot more functional space for providing those homeless services. Crest Community Church is gonna be another transitional housing project. This done by the Crest Community Church. Right now, we are just kind of assisting them with going through the process.

They haven't officially asked for money yet. They have been approved for a conditional use permit, and they are still looking at different funding options. Habitat for Humanity is still looking at funding for the garden home ownership project. We are waiting for HCD to release the next, permanent local housing allocation notice. We understand that that one will have a set aside for home ownership projects, and so we will look at the that using that funding for this project at that time.

Sunrise At Bogart is in construction. If you go on their social media, they have a webcam there that kind of shows the in progress and you can see it happening in real time. It's very exciting. So we have, applied for a round of HomeKey funds for this one, because it is HomeKey gap funding. We have not heard back from that yet.

We are still waiting. We don't know, what the timeline will be on that one. So we are still looking at that and potentially we'll need to look at another funding source when we hear back. We have another project with MPHS who is doing Sunrise at Bogart. They are looking at doing some infill home ownership projects with us.

We have a couple of housing authority owned sites at 14th Street and Gould Street. And we are looking at doing potentially a pre manufactured housing. We're still looking at what the funding is gonna be and exactly how many units we can get on these projects, but this is something that we are moving forward with and we're very excited. Our density bonus projects, these are awarded through the planning department. So we currently have 17 of these units in place, and this is just regular market rate development.

And in order to kind of stretch those dollars, we can allow them to build extra units on-site if they keep those as affordable housing. And so that has been able to stretch us and get us those extra 17 units. We have our 10 California Housing Crisis Act units that we are going to place. And then I did wanna talk a little bit about our transformative climate communities grant because it did just come to an end and we had our big celebration. So very excited.

We were able to plant over, over 2,000 trees. We were able to get over 50 homes installed with solar power to help offset those power costs and keep people more stably in their homes by reducing their overall cost to live there. And we did do workforce development training for over a 100 residents to help them obtain employment. So very excited. They have released some guidelines for their next round of TCC funding.

We are looking at that for maybe doing some retrofitting for energy efficiency at some of our current units. The Neighbor to Neighbor grant has also come to an end. This was another great project. We had two partners with this, the Riverside Community Health Foundation, which ran leadership resident leadership academies to train residents in how to go out into their communities and build connections to create projects and programs that bring people together and help build communities. And then we had our other project partner, partner, Love Riverside, who did very many community impact projects, including furnishing spaces at libraries, community gardens, so many great things to create these third spaces for communities to get together.

The other thing that we did do with this project is that we have drafted a community action plan so we can take the lessons learned from these programs and apply them to other communities throughout the city. So my recommendation is that you receive this update, and I am available if you have any questions.

Amazing. Thank you so much. We'll look to public comment just to see if there's no cards in the chamber and seeing if there's any online.

No

hands raised. Okay, great. So we're going go ahead and close public comment. Vice Chair?

Thank you. Just wanted to point out here that show that 11 of the 17 very low income units are going to be through the density bonus project are in Ward 5. There's a lot of rhetoric out there, a lot of political rhetoric bringing in failed politicians from other cities to criticize the city of Riverside about our arena numbers, standing on the steps of City Hall criticizing us when their cities are failing to meet their arena numbers. Folks need to understand that, and correct me if I'm wrong, Michelle, over 80% of cities in California right now are failing to meet low and very low income RENA numbers. Is that not correct?

We're not an outlier in this.

We're not an outlier, but I also want to provide clarification on our RENA numbers. There are 209 units at the Mulberry housing development that we can't count towards arena because they our planning department did do the entitlement process that was handled by the states. We're having conversations on how do cities get the ability to count those units to our arenas because it's happening in our community.

Right. I'm just trying to you know, there's a lot of a lot of rhetoric for for political purposes trying to make the city of Riverside look like we're somehow like this awful group of folks when in reality, it's a statewide problem. Over 80% of cities in California are in the same booth, but in the same boat. And when you look at our region, we're actually doing better than than the majority of our neighbors, if you look at our region, how we're doing with our arena numbers. And the truth is we're actively permitting and producing units in our city even though we're not fully on target.

So I mean there's a lot of rhetoric out there from folks that are trying aspersions on the city of Riverside. But the reality is this is happening across the state. We're not an outlier. We've permitted over 3,600 housing units during the cycle. We've met over 30% of our above moderate RINA numbers.

But the low and very low is a problem everywhere in the state, not just in Riverside. I think that's the messaging that while yes, we need to do better, but somehow the rhetoric that folks want to use for their political agenda that somehow Riverside an outlier in this is simply false. We're actually, if you look at how we're doing in the Inland Empire, a few cities may be doing better, but cities like Moreno Valley, Paris, Harupa Valley, where a lot of these criticisms come from from folks that live in those cities are criticizing us. You know, clean your own house up. We have folks coming from from other cities to stand on the steps of City Hall to criticize City Council for City of Riverside when their city is failing to meet their numbers as well.

So folks need to take a good look in the mirror before they start casting aspersions at the City of Riverside. Again, the city doesn't build things. Again, I look at how are we going to get affordable housing built in California. Would encourage our friends in Sacramento to cut fees, make it easier and red tape, make it easier for builders to build housing and more affordable for builders to build housing and we'd start to see more of this being built. The current economic promise we see in the world make things a lot more expensive to build.

Energy cost, the cost of everything is going up, which means it's going to be a lot more expensive to build things. This is maybe a time when the state should step up and cut fees and make things easier for folks to build. Then perhaps maybe we would start seeing more production. But I just want folks out there to know, don't believe everything you read on social media because believe it or not, it's not factual. The city of Riverside is not an outlier and we're in the same boat with the overwhelming majority of jurisdictions in the state.

Thank you for the update today. I did want to ask, looking at and just want to say, great. You know, it's wonderful to see progress. I cannot wait to have a shovel on the ground for the grapevine development project. It has been a very long time coming. And so did wanna ask, and and I will say that I, unfortunately was running late to cancel the day we had arena update numbers come in. So for future reports that might be helpful to include and, because there were questions that came from community about the very low income, production of of units, low and moderate. But so I was curious, do we currently or how many pipeline projects are are are there any in the category for the affordable housing for very low and then the low to moderate?

So right now, if you look at the Sunrise At Bogart project, that is specifically for people at 30% AMI or below. Mhmm. The other projects

And that's how many units again?

That's twenty two? Twenty two. 22. Great. Okay. So we do the other thing that we do is a lot of the projects, depending on the funding, will have different numbers of units at different income targets. So for example, our Mulberry senior project has some at 50 30%, 50%, and 60%. So it's not kind of all or one. We do try to spread it out, and we do try to get as many of those lower income units as we can. Mhmm. So just because it says, you know, up to a certain amount doesn't mean that there's none that are set aside for those lower amounts. Mhmm.

We might be if we could potentially add one column that then has it's like the the level that The levels. It could and it could always have a disclosure too, like, tentative one or two potentially just for us to have, like

Right.

An idea. But that would be helpful just so we could again see the projection of what's coming. And for clarification, I believe, but for the university terrorist projects, that would have been of the very low in the pipeline would if we would have moved forward with that project.

Those units would have been extremely low.

Extremely very low.

Yeah, 30%.

30%, right. I had someone ask a question, and I wanted just to put it on the record. Okay. No. Well, thank you. I mean, I there's obviously actually, because we have our director here, did you wanna speak really quickly to the project for Path of Life and or have yes. We'd love to hear. Just since we have you here today, we're so lucky.

Sure, Paul. We're we're delighted with partnership with the city and the opportunity. This lot came to Path of Life several years ago. So as with the Crest Community Church, as with The Grove many years ago, you rely on faith communities or partners in the community to stand up these projects. And so we're attempting to do this without tapping any city funding. You also have to kind of have a meeting of the minds of what kind of housing are you building. So we agree how to maximize our imprint on the property. The property is close to the campuses. We house students at RCC, lot of students, and close proximity to UCR. So we had in mind transitional kind of housing opportunities so that students, it's not easy to qualify for housing to put your name on a rental application when you have no income and or other barriers.

So path of life would carry the lease on these properties and make it very seamless for folks to move in and out. So we're hoping that it is, some plans have been surfaced already and we have great partnership with Tilden Coil board members and delighted for in kind services. So I'm expecting, you know, in the next few months to see that there's gonna be movement besides just killing the weeds, the weed abatement on the property, Michelle.

No. Thank you for that. And thank you for the abatement to keep it nice for the community in the meantime.

She calls us on her way to work.

Yeah. I love that. Nice. Thank you. And I love to see, you know, at the project that's on university that would have been two units, I think are we exploring maybe Habitat Humanity as a partner there?

So we're still looking based on my conversations with the planning department, if it is a city owned, run, managed property, we could potentially ask for an exemption and get more units than we could if we had an outside partner.

Okay.

Maybe eight, ten.

That'd great.

So those are still in early phases. That would be an exemption that we would have to bring to city council at a future date. And that would be based on potential other funding sources and plans at that time. So that is something we are talking about.

Wonderful. Thank you so much.

Yeah. Is no mention of that, the Habitat project that's going to be I think it's East Of Madison, North of the 91, which is gonna be a pretty decent sized project. I ran into the folks from Habitat, and they had mentioned it. I

Are you talking about the Garden

Garden Street is on

That's off Madison.

Is that the one that's tucked up?

By Carl's Jr, right behind there.

Is that where it is?

Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. That's the one that we applied for Cal Home funding. Unfortunately, we didn't get the funding. Most of the Cal Home seems to be going up north. The Southern region's not getting a lot of those resources so we're waiting for our permanent local housing allocation grant

to come in. Then we had another there was another site over at the West Of Van Buren, South Of Magnolia that Habitat was looking to do something on there and it was kind of on hold. So if you could They

will reach out to me.

Yeah. They haven't reached out to me yet.

No. Yeah. I'm only aware that they have Okay. Garden Street and then another project, the Veterans One and Herff evaluation.

Okay. But the Garden Street That's a top priority for us. Yeah. You see the the footprint. When you see it from when you see it from up above the footprint, it's it's going to revitalize that whole neighborhood. Just that project alone is going to just be a win win for that whole area. Now, that lot is just

Unfortunately, the homeowner that used to live there had passed away, but she did donate the property to Habitat, which was amazing. Amazing.

Wonderful. And there's no we just don't have any timeline on that?

We're waiting for the state to release our permanent local housing allocation next five year, what we anticipate for the first round, and then we have to put a plan together. So we'll be going out to the community, coming to the housing and homeless committee if there's time, depending on what the time frame looks like from the state, or we'll go directly to council to see how we're gonna allocate those resources because we used to be able to spend a lot of those towards shelter operations as well as affordable housing, but they've now changed it. It's probably gonna be 60%. It has to be used for homeownership. So the first probably round or two will go directly to this project.

I'm excited for that to come because it's, again, it's gonna revitalize that neighborhood whether affordable, Margaret, it's gonna be a beautiful project that will will change that entire neighborhood.

And help increase homeownership Opportunities. I will say

that the when I see the ones like this, the single family house homeownership, it's, like, just incredible. We know there's families that are dying to live here in Riverside and would love to choose to call this home, and it's a hard hard market out there. So it's just really incredible to see, and we'd love to see more of those opportunities, hopefully, in the future. But thank you for this incredible report. Great update. We look forward to continue to work with you on this. So that is we'll wrap up our housing authority updates. Any other comments or items? Oh, okay. Perfect. And then we are gonna look to, future items for consideration. No? No? Okay. We're I'm good as well. We'll work with you, Michelle, for future agenda. I think next month is a tee up or we're gonna be doing the housing action plan? Yes. Okay. Okay.

After that, I'm hoping we'll be able to do the local housing preference where folks that live or work in the city will get local preference when we're building affordable housing.

Fantastic. That's great. Wonderful. Well, we are gonna go ahead and join then at 09:45 on the dot. Thank you all for joining us today. Thank you to our director from Path of Life for the presentation and to the community. Have a great day.