Gruber: Santa Monica Post LUCE, Slicing and Dicing Ahead
Editor’s note: This post first appeared in Healthy City Local. It is reprinted below with the author’s permission. Santa Monica Next welcomes guest contributions and editorials. We look for fact-based content relevant to the future of...
Santa Monica City Council Narrowly Votes to Roll Back LUCE Vision
Things on the dais got tense Wednesday night when the City Council deliberated whether to remove key elements of the Land Use and Circulation Element (LUCE), making it more difficult for future housing to...
Op-Ed: Housing is a Social Justice Issue
My friend Cindy is thinking of quitting her job. It pays well and has good benefits.
It is challenging, but she’s done very well at it, and has moved up the ranks. She likes her coworkers...
Gruber: Reoccupying Papermate, There Go the Best Laid Plans
Editor’s note: This post first appeared in Healthy City Local. It is reprinted below with the author’s permission. Santa Monica Next welcomes guest contributions and editorials. We look for fact-based content relevant to the future of...
Updating Santa Monica’s Zoning: What’s at Stake?
Will Santa Monica face the same housing crisis as San Francisco in the coming years? Will there ever be another child care center built near the homes of the families it serves? Will our...
Gruber: Sic Transit Transit Center
Editor’s note: This post first appeared in Healthy City Local. It is reprinted below with the author’s permission. Santa Monica Next welcomes guest contributions and editorials. We look for fact-based content relevant to the future of...
New Plans Filed for Papermate Site in Santa Monica
After anti-development advocates successfully killed plans by developer Hines for a mixed-use housing and office project on the former Papermate site across from the future Expo light rail station at 26th Street, a new...
Santa Monica City Council Responds to LAO Report on Housing Crisis
Last week, the California Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) put out a report calling for coastal communities to build more housing to tackle the dire shortage of homes -- and the resulting affordability crisis --...
Santa Monica’s Failure to Grow Could Threaten Rent Controlled Homes
For decades, Santa Monica has prided itself on being a statewide leader in efforts to build and preserve affordable housing. Now, in the context of local, regional, and statewide housing affordability crises, the bayside...
California’s Coastal Cities Must Build More Housing to Fight Skyrocketing Rents, State Says
California's Legislative Analyst's Office released a sobering report Tuesday that looks at the roots of California's dire housing affordability crisis and how to solve it.
The report lays the blame for the current housing crunch...
Gruber: How to Build Boxes on the Boulevards
Editor's note: The following originally appeared in The Healthy City Local. It is reprinted here with the author's permission. Santa Monica Next welcomes guest contributions and editorials. We look for fact-based content relevant to the future of...
Is AirBnB Making Our Housing Crisis Worse?
According to a report released Wednesday by pro-labor group, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), AirBnB, a short-term rental listing website, is making the regional housing crisis even worse and driving up...
Santa Monica’s Zoning Update Needs to Look Forward, Not Backward
Next month, the City Council will consider a document that will impact Santa Monica's future for the next several decades.
When the Council votes on the ZOU it will have to decide whether or not the...
Lack of Housing Options Spells Uncertainty for Santa Monica’s Section 8 Renters
Earlier this month, the Santa Monica Housing Commission voted to recommend extending the time people can spend looking for a place to live through the federal rental subsidy program known as Section 8.
While the recommendation...
Gruber: Turns Out That When It Comes To Local Politics Santa Monica is not...
Note: This article originally appeared on The Healthy City Local. It is reprinted here with the author's permission.
In the last couple of posts I’ve been trying, mostly by means of rereading Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, to put anti-development politics...
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