With the Coachella Valley’s annual spring music festivals fast approaching, Lift to Rise has launched a billboard campaign to raise support around a living wage for the local workers that make the festivals and other major events a huge success and driver of the valley economy. Two billboards placed along Interstate 10 during April reference…

More than half of Indio residents spend at least a third of their incomes on rent, and for many others housing eats up half of their paycheck  INDIO, CA — Indio residents are asking city officials to approve plans for a new housing development that will provide desperately needed affordable apartments in a city where…

Regional planning officials on Nov. 2 awarded $5 million to Lift to Rise to expand its collaborative effort to encourage the construction of new affordable housing in the Coachella Valley. The funding from the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) will be added to We Lift: The Coachella Valley’s Housing Catalyst Fund, a pool of…