Tag: homelessness
Riverside City Council, stop using UCR students as an excuse
On Jan. 13, 2026, the Riverside City Council voted against a $20 million supportive housing project that would have converted the Quality Inn Motel...
Riverside Mayor Lock Dawson believes the city is “leveling up”
Riverside’s State of the City event, held on Jan. 28, 2026, honored award recipients with recognitions like the cultural preservation, the Mayor’s Award and...
Riverside turns down a $20.1 million state funding for homeless housing
On Jan. 13, 2026, the Riverside City Council voted to reject a $20.1 million state grant intended for homeless housing with four councilmembers voting...
Gov. Newsom delivers his final State of Address
On Jan. 8, 2025, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom delivered his final State of Address, where he labeled California as being a leading state in...
Op-ed: Students and the streets: bridging the divide in Riverside’s opioid...
Brandon Ta is a third-year biology major at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), where he is conducting research in the MediHack Lab on...
Riverside’s encampment ban is not going to solve homelessness
The Riverside City Council passed a 6-to-1 ban on homeless encampments on public property within a two-block radius of schools, city parks and homeless...
California’s criminalization of homelessness is a hateful policy the Supreme Court...
The unhoused are up next on the Supreme Court’s chopping block as they agreed to hear a decision made by the Ninth Circuit Court...
Homeless, not hopeless: Proposition 1 will aid the unhoused
Homelessness is growing at an exponential rate in California; a trend that did not start recently or suddenly. In the last two years, homelessness...
California’s unhoused population should not be left to die in the...
The first two weeks of the new year have brought strong winter rain storms to California. The bomb cyclone, that caused mass destruction across...
The University of California should be doing more to combat housing...
Being a college student is stressful enough with the many sacrifices people must undertake in order to succeed and finish their degree. Housing insecurity...