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A petition calling on Coachella Valley leaders to address the stark gap between the region’s high cost of living and the minimum wage has surpassed 1,000 signatures and continues to gain support. The online petition is an opportunity for residents to express their support for all Coachella Valley households to earn enough money to afford…
Lift to Rise and its roughly 75 community partners on Wednesday released their latest plan to increase affordable housing in the Coachella Valley and continue the progress made since 2018 when they began a 10-year push to significantly reduce the number of rent-burdened local households through the production of 10,000 new affordable housing units. The…
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…
This month Lift to Rise will recognize key individuals and organizations making meaningful contributions to the collaborative work of increasing housing stability and economic mobility in the Coachella Valley through a new celebratory event: The Community Investment Awards. More than 250 people are expected to attend the inaugural Community Investment Awards, taking place Saturday, Oct.…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Representative Dr. Raul Ruiz (D-California) and the nonprofit Lift to Rise hosted representatives from leading national healthcare, housing, and philanthropic organizations on Capitol Hill on Sept. 21 for a critical conversation on improving federal policy around the intersection of housing and health, a key first step to developing future policy action…
In 2018, Lift to Rise set out on a mission to make a lasting impact in the Coachella Valley by bringing together community and institutional partners to collaboratively solve the underlying causes of poverty and inequity and create a future where all Coachella Valley families are healthy, stable, and thriving.
Cathedral City resident Teresa Perez felt like her world was crumbling around her during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. She lost her job as a community liaison at a local school district (which she did not want to name) once schools shut down in March 2020. The pandemic also brought tragedy to the 47-year-old’s…
Last week, results of research from the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy showed that a Covid-era rental assistance program administered by the nonprofit served as a crucial stopgap for 35,000 Riverside County households, representing about 120,000 residents.