Local organizers have been brainstorming ways to maintain pressure on the Riverside City Council after weeks of failed attempts to convince the majority of the members to reconsider accepting millions in state funding for an affordable housing project.
“People are really ready to act,” Janice Rooths, a longtime advocate who mediated the conversation, told The Riverside Record. “We need them to go out and vote for the candidates [to] get them elected, go out and recall candidates because that would help us even faster and then to help get the real word out about housing-first.”
Several Inland Empire-based organizations, including Starting Over, Inc. and the Fair Housing Council of Riverside County, hosted a community town hall meeting last Friday night, where more than 50 residents received updates on the nearly-killed affordable housing project on University Avenue…