News about rents, zoning changes, and other issues related to the cost of housing.
While the incoming president has threatened to turn back many of the gains made in environmental conservation and fighting global climate change, Santa Monica remains committed to being a sustainability leader in 2017 and beyond. The city, which has long…
Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed budget, released earlier this week, has some good news and some bad news for housing in California. California remains in the throes of the worst housing shortage in generations and Brown’s proposed budget made it clear…
This piece was originally published on Santa Monica Next’s sister site, Longbeachize. It’s frightening when the wealthy hijack the narratives of the good. And they did so brilliantly in 2016 and will continue to do so this year. When I walked into…
A recent post at a website called Apartment Guide has caught a bit of attention on the Westside after it named Santa Monica the most expensive place to rent in the country. Apartment Guide made the attention-grabbing claim that average…
Housing affordability in California is the worst it has been in the state’s history and it’s widening the gap between rich and poor, according to a report from the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) released Tuesday. The…
The campaign that soundly defeated the no-growth Measure LV this past November has been given the “Honorable Mention” nod in the 2016 Streetsie Awards category of “Advocacy Organization of the Year.” The Streetsie Awards are meted out by Santa Monica…
This past year, Santa Monica continued to advance some very progressive policies aimed at sharing the city’s increasing prosperity with as wide a swath of residents, workers, and other members of the community as possible. Still, this year’s headlines also…
Every year since 2009, Santa Monica has called upon hundreds of volunteers to help gather accurate data about the number of people sleeping in the bayside city’s streets and homeless shelters. The city of Santa Monica is asking people once…
For the fourth year in a row, Assemblymember Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica) will chair the Assembly’s budget subcommittee that oversees spending on pressing environmental issues such as transportation and greenhouse gas reductions. Bloom, a resident of Santa Monica who served…
Republished September 13, 2022 To our great happiness we learned that our explainer on how to find a rent controlled apartment remains a frequently-visited page even during the pause in Next’s publication. To help aspiring Santa Monicans, we have updated…
What will it take to end the divisiveness surrounding development in Santa Monica? That was the ostensible question underpinning the discussion at the Santa Monica City Council meeting early Wednesday morning. Councilmembers Gleam Davis and Kevin McKeown together placed an…
This article originally ran on California Streetsblog last week. Wasting no time, lawmakers opened the first day of the California legislative session by introducing a slew of bills and resolutions to get things started. The two biggest bills—S.B. 1 from Senator Jim…
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) announced on Friday that Ocean Avenue South, a residential mixed-use, mixed-income development, was one of 11 real estate development projects from around the world selected as winners in the ULI 2016 Global Awards for Excellence program.…
Via City Press Release: The Santa Monica City Council voted this week to approve an ordinance requiring all new single-family construction in the City of Santa Monica to be zero-net energy (ZNE), the first of its kind in the world.…
Last month, Santa Monica Next reached out to all 10 candidates for City Council with an 11 question questionnaire. Some questions were written to give voters an idea of the candidates personality, others on their positions. So far, six candidates…
