Richmonders Involved to Strengthen our Communities and Virginia Caucus of Rank- and-File Educators gathered for a prayer vigil on Aug. 29 at City Hall to call attention to Richmond’s gun violence. Steven B. Nesmith, chief executive of the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority, has announced a partnership with REAL LIFE to curtail gun violence and improve the lives of residents of public housing.
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RRHA gets REAL about reducing gun violence
A crime-reduction initiative that Mayor Levar M. Stoney has spurned apparently will come to Richmond after all. The city’s housing authority is partnering with the nonprofit REAL LIFE to implement the same initiative in Richmond that is credited with dramatically cutting shootings and violent crime in Hopewell.
