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Advocates, students and civil-rights groups demand Riverside revisit rejection of $20.1M Homekey award
Summary
After the council's January rejection of a $20.1 million Project Homekey award for the University Terrace/Quality Inn site, students, housing advocates and the ACLU urged Riverside to reverse course, filed a civil-rights complaint and pressed the city to reapply for state funds.
Advocates, students and housing-rights groups urged the Riverside City Council on April 14 to reverse its earlier decision to reject a $20.1 million Project Homekey award for the University Terrace/Quality Inn site and to pursue available state funding for permanent supportive housing.
The appeal grew more urgent during public comment after the ACLU of Southern California and allied legal groups filed a civil-rights complaint with the California Civil Rights Division that same morning, according to speakers who described the filing as an inquiry into whether the council's actions violated fair housing and disability nondiscrimination requirements.
"I'm asking this council to choose a different story," said Adam Wedeking, board president of the Universalist Unitarian Church of…
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