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The Rental Assistance program has been a lifesaver. It has allowed me to stay in a sober living while I get on my feet.
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01/25/2024
Public Comment
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I want to give a special thanks to the City of Palm Springs and to Annie Fonseca for her assistance and guidance
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01/25/2024
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73-710 Fred Waring Drive, Suite 100, Palm Desert, CA 92260 | lifttorise.org
RE: Item 3B: Appropriate $1,000,000 In Housing Set Aside Funds for Tenant-Based Rental
Assistance Program
Dear Mayor Jefferey Bernstein, Mayor Pro Tem Ron deHarte, and distinguished council
members,
Lift to Rise would like to express our strong support for the city of Palm Springs to Appropriate
$1,000,000 In Housing Set Aside Funds for Tenant-Based Rental Assistance Program that will
assist residents with overcoming barriers to housing and help the city reduce the number of rent
burdened individuals and families.
In 2020, during the pandemic, Lift to Rise partnered with Inland SoCal United Way to launch a
rental assistance program, called United Lift, that kept more than 120,000 people housed
throughout the County during the largest global economic crisis in decades. Working with USC
Price School of Public Policy, we conducted an evaluation of United Lift in Riverside County
where the data showed that individuals and families were experiencing rent burden prior to the
pandemic and how the effects of COVID-19 only exacerbated it. The evaluation also found that
tenants who received emergency assistance “benefited greatly” from “lower rates of housing
instability and homelessness,” and improved food security and mental health. Unfortunately, our
program was only temporary, however, we have laid out the framework for others to continue
what we started.
Since the dissolution of our rental assistance program in 2022, many residents still come to our
office seeking assistance with their housing costs. According to the city's own housing element,
60% of Palm Springs renters are rent burdened and 44% of Palm Springs homeowners are rent
burdened; meaning they are spending more than 30% of their income on housing costs
(rent/mortgage and utilities) leaving them with very little to cover the costs of other basic
necessities. With this TBRA program in Palm Springs, we have been able to offer some glimmer
of hope to the Palm Springs residents that walk through our doors. This program has already
aided in the promotion of stable housing, reduced financial stress, and promoted positive health
outcomes for both renters and landlords throughout the city.
We are proud of the policy interventions the city of Palm Springs has undertaken to promote
inclusivity and affordability with ordinances such as inclusionary zoning and commercial linkage
fess, TOT allocations to affordable housing funds, home rehabilitation programs, and this TBRA
program that has helped reduce and prevent homelessness for many Palm Springs residents. We
also encourage the city to continue funding long term affordable housing production
interventions, alongside the TBRA program and realize the enactment of additional tenant
protection ordinances that will protect tenants from eviction when funding for this program
dissolves. We urge the city council to keep up the momentum and lean on Lift to Rise for
support.
Lift to Rise was formed to transform the systems that generate the supply of affordable housing,
recognizing that the combination of low wages and high housing costs are the root causes of
financial precarity among Coachella Valley residents.
That is why Lift to Rise and over 60 cross-sector partners, including the city of Palm Springs, have
coordinated around a shared goal of reducing the regional housing cost burden at a population
02/08/2024
Public Comment
Item 3B
73-710 Fred Waring Drive, Suite 100, Palm Desert, CA 92260 | lifttorise.org
level through the production of 10,000 units of affordable housing in the Coachella Valley by
2028.
Together, we are operating off a shared Action Plan which spans 5 key strategy areas:
1. Aggregating a pipeline of community-prioritized projects across the valley,
2. Growing a regional Housing Catalyst fund to spur production,
3. Advocating at the local, state, and federal level for policies and regulatory changes that
Support housing production in our region,
4. Engaging and mobilizing residents and elected officials in support of affordable housing,
and
5. Keeping residents housed through a coordinated eviction prevention strategy.
We stand ready as a collaborative to support the city to increase affordability. We thank the City
of Palm Springs for joining us in this work thus far and urge the city council to continue to
prioritize the production of affordable housing to ensure that all residents are healthy, stable, and
thriving and urge you again prioritize affordability with this recommendation.
Thank you for your time.
Lift to Rise
02/08/2024
Public Comment
Item 3B