"Dan Hoxworth, an Inland SoCal Housing Collective board member, told the group that he believed a letter sent by three nonprofit law firms citing the possibility of legal action against the city could pressure the council members to reconsider before the state began the process of distributing that money to another project. (...)

The letter, sent February 10 by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California, the Inland Counties Legal Services and the Public Interest Law Project, outlined four reasons city leaders should reconsider the vote. They included the potential of losing funding incentives tied to the city’s pro-housing designation and possibly facing liability for discrimination based on the comments made by some council members."

Read the full article by Daniel Eduardo Hernandez in the Riverside Record here.

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