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Center for Social Innovation tapped for equity project
The center will offer insights and recommendations to the Southern California Association of Governments as part of the region s pandemic recovery planning Author: UCR News
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The Southern California Association of Governments, or SCAG, the nation’s largest metropolitan planning organization representing six counties, 191 cities, and more than 18 million residents, has chosen the Center for Social Innovation at UC Riverside to conduct research and offer insights and recommendations to advance economic inclusion and equity across Southern California.
The project, the first of its kind involving SCAG and UCR, calls on the center to inform an Inclusive Economic Recovery Strategy, or IERS, for Southern California, and to serve as the equity advisor for the entire SCAG region. The IERS will provide a roadmap for inclusive economic development in the region, with a particular focus on equit
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A new state program seeks to increase the stock of housing for the so-called “missing middle” by issuing bonds to investors who buy existing market-rate buildings that are then transformed into units that a four-person household making $90,000 to $135,120 annually can afford.
Lennar, the developer of the Oceanaire building Downtown, recently took advantage of this new bond program and sold the two-year-old luxury complex for $144 million to the California Statewide Communities Development Authority, which bought the building using bonds purchased by investors who are repaid through monthly rents, plus interest.
The city had to sign off on the sale, as it will have to forgo property taxes for up to 30 years, but will get to keep proceeds from the future sale of the building.
Cathedral City s Rainbow Crossing restored to honor late Mayor Greg Pettis
Cathedral City councilmembers and residents gathered Saturday to honor the late Mayor Gregory Pettis by restoring the Rainbow Crossing street painting.
Pettis, who died at the age of 63 in 2019, was the longest-serving member of the city council. He was the first openly gay candidate to run for office in the Coachella Valley.
Rainbow Crossing is a rainbow-painted crosswalk at the intersection of Highway 111 and West Buddy Rogers Avenue. Pettis pushed to create the crossing in 2016 as part of the Cathedral City LGBT Days. The Rainbow Crossing was the first of its kind in the Coachella Valley that symbolizes the city’s celebration of diversity, Cathedral City communications manager Chris Parman said.
California Housing Policy Proposals Focus on Single-Family Homes in Push for Social Equity, Officials Say
Proposed state housing policies that seek to brand ownership of single-family homes in Southern California as exclusionary are making it more difficult to solve the region’s housing woes, some local officials say but supporters are defending the policies as necessary to correct historical biases in the market.
The officials, who are regional council members of the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), say the agency is focusing too much on social justice and equity measures while addressing local housing needs. SCAG is responsible for implementing state affordable housing mandates for 191 cities throughout the region.