Grand opening set for Palm Springs' first affordable housing complex in over a decade
The new 60-unit Monarch Apartment affordable housing community is located at 3130 N. Indian Canyon Drive.
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The new 60-unit Monarch Apartment affordable housing community is located at 3130 N. Indian Canyon Drive.
The Palm Spring City Council unanimously approved an additional $3 million in funding for the homeless navigation center, however, some concerns were raised over the project's timeline.
Several councilmembers expressed concern that the contract did not include enough detail and requirements about how the design process will work.
"We maybe had two people coming in a day," said Rainieri. They closed after a few days, temporarily laying off their three employees. In June, they reopened and were able to bring one employee back. They brought a second employee back in February. They got some help from the Paycheck Protection Program, but given that even pre-pandemic they had just three employees, they were limited in how much they could receive from the payroll-based program. "We're a very small business," said Rainieri. "So obviously with less employees we have less overhead, but we also got less assistance because ...