2021 DPSS Annual Report Online_FINAL

Annual Report 2020/2021

Adult Services

The road ahead

We are already thinking and planning for the future, and we know the need will be great. One in every five of Riverside County’s 2.5 million residents is age 60 or older, and it’s a population that’s projected to double in coming decades. The cost of living, including housing costs, continues to rise in California, and many more seniors could potentially lose their homes because

they can’t keep up with the mounting bills. From January 2020 through June 2021, we assisted more than 200 unstably housed seniors.

In the meantime, we will continue to work with our partners to build effective solutions. And we never

forget that people who are homeless are people first, not just statistics.

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