In 2022, Ray Harkleroad received a notice from the landlord of his Desert Hot Springs apartment: The building had been sold to a new owner, and he would soon have to vacate his home of the past seven ...

Ray Harkleroad, 76, moved to Palm Springs in 2011. He now lives at the affordable Monarch Home Apartments in Palm Springs, on Wed., Jan. 22, 2025.

As cost-of-living prices remain high for many residents of the Coachella Valley, local housing advocates and developers are seeing a major uptick in the amount of affordable housing being built in the ...