News about rents, zoning changes, and other issues related to the cost of housing.
Just south of the intersection of Pico and 28th Street sits a small apartment complex. There are four bungalows stretching back from the street, lined up side by side. On a Friday afternoon in late April, a man in a…
[pullquote align=left] Residocracy wants to reduce traffic—the time price of accessing Santa Monica—by limiting the number of people who live here. That’s like trying to reduce the cost of the box seats behind home plate by reducing the number of…
Juan Matute contributed research to this report, using building permit and inspection data downloaded from Santa Monica’s Open Data Portal on March 26th and April 9th, 2016. There’s a lot of talk about real estate development in Santa Monica. And…
A new report released by the city of Santa Monica last week revealed that in Santa Monica’s booming downtown, nearly two-thirds of people living there are struggling to do so. According to the report, about 60 percent of Downtown Santa…
Last week, the Santa Monica Daily Press reported that the Santa Monica Community College Board of Trustees is considering its own ballot initiative to be placed on the fall ballot. The $295 million bond measure would pay for on-campus upgrades…
Santa Monica city officials have begun moving forward with a new, extended outreach schedule to get feedback from community members on the plan that will guide the future of the city’s downtown for the next 20 years. The new schedule…
There has been a lot of discussion about a meme we posted last week as part of our editorial encouraging Santa Monica residents not to sign the petition to put the LUVE proposal on this fall’s ballot. In the meme, a Donald…
At the moment, there is a group of committed no-growth activists circulating a petition to put an initiative on the ballot that would effectively make it impossible to build anything over two or three stories by requiring a popular vote…
Continuing our coverage of bills making their way through the California legislative session, today we’re highlighting some bills that we like. Some of these will likely be heard first at the Assembly Transportation Committee this Monday, April 11. Firstly, the…
The California legislature is back from spring recess and the process of hearing and arguing about bills is beginning in earnest. In the next few days, Streetsblog California will talk about some exciting bills coming up that may need your…
City officials announced Tuesday that the community process for Santa Monica’s Downtown Community Plan, which will guide the future of the city’s thriving core for the next 15 years or so, would be extended several months to allow for more…
Last week, Streetsblog California announced three new pieces of legislation introduced by Assemblyman Richard Bloom who represents West Los Angeles County cities in the Assembly. Bloom’s legislation focuses on increasing the housing stock in California by reducing the hurdles to creating…
California State Assemblymember Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica) has set his sights on tackling the dire shortage of homes—and the resulting affordability crisis—currently facing the state. Bloom, whose district includes Malibu, Santa Monica, West L.A., Brentwood, and Beverly Hills, currently has…
Santa Monica has a housing problem: there’s not enough of it. The city’s population has seen a net increase of less than 10,000 people since 1960. It’s clear to anyone who has tried to move to — or within —…
The conservative no-growth group, Residocracy, has begun gathering signatures to put an initiative on the November ballot that would require nearly all new projects taller than 32 feet to be approved by a popular vote. The group, whose opposition to…
