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Riverside County has received a $12 million state grant that it will use to reduce homelessness in the San Jacinto riverbed.
The money from the Encampment Resolution Funding Program will pay for “housing, street outreach, and wrap-around services,” to address the issue of homelessness in and around the riverbed,” according to a statement on the county’s website.
“This funding will enable us to expand our efforts and implement comprehensive solutions to address homelessness in and around the San Jacinto riverbed,” said Supervisor Yxstian Gutierrez in the statement. “This is another opportunity to partner with the community to address homelessness”
Gutierrez, who represents the fifth district, helped secure the grant.
Services will include mental health support, substance abuse counseling, and help finding employment. County officials will work with San Jacinto and Hemet to determine exactly how the money will be spent.
Clark county and they got 90 million and we didn’t see none of it now I live back in San Jacinto California still homeless and even during the pandemic couldn’t get housing so I feel that it is the employees and their family members that always get help I’ve never seen anyone that I know that’s homeless has been homeless for over 5 years and still have not received help and we’re at the riverbank and we haven’t heard nothing about no Grant so that Grant is going in the grantees pocket
I feel you!! I’ve been homeless for 7 yrs and heard about all these grants Riverside county gets to help the homeless but we don’t see none of it. Not here in Riverside anyways.Where’s all the money going??? Its boleshit!!! I want to start a protest. They discriminate against us homeless, kick us 9ut of everywhere. Only offer us a shelter! Um no thanks!! Throw our lil belongings that we have in the trash.. where do they expect us to go?? Just because we’re homeless doesn’t mean we are not human beings.
I agree with you. I have been homeless since 2023 after I was a victim of a violent criine and I currently live in the San jacinto river basin and I have been begging for help but only told I am not eligible that I fall through the cracks. They got 12 million dollars to help the homeless get out of the river basin and I have not once seen or heard from anyone on this. I never in my life ever thought I would be homeless living in a river basin and I am disabled with coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure and all the stress from dpss not giving one ounce of compassion to help I was sent to the er with a hypertensive crisis and was diagnosed with a catastrophic heart condition LVH and they tell me that because I can’t work I’m not an abled body adult I don’t qualify. What is wrong with the system that is supposed to be helping? I don’t understand.