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Gruber: How to Build Boxes on the Boulevards

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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...

Santa Monica City Council Puts Affordable Housing Funding Measure on November Ballot

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“One of the things that makes Santa Monica so spectacular is... our economic and social diversity in this town and affordable housing is the only way to preserve it.” - Councilmember Gleam Davis With Santa...

An “Artificial Situation”: Part One of a Discussion on the Regional Housing Crisis

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Santa Monica Next sat down with Dr. Frederick Zimmerman, an economist and a professor of Public Health at UCLA to talk about the impact our local and regional housing crisis has on our day-to-day lives...

FutureBuild 2016 to Feature Santa Monica City Manager Rick Cole, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti

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Seleta Reynolds, Rick Cole, Eric Garcetti, and Frank Gehry are just some of those who will be speaking at ULI Los Angeles and VerdeXchange’s FutureBuild 2016 conference on Tuesday, January 26. This year, FutureBuild 2016...

No LUVE in Santa Monica: The Problem with Real Estate Referenda

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The following post was authored and submitted by Bryan Schonfeld, a Ph.D student in Politics at Princeton University. Last week, the United Kingdom voted, via referendum, to leave the European Union, harming its economy and much...

Tale of Two Projects

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This originally appeared at The Healthy City Local. It’s been a while since I’ve written about a specific development project in Santa Monica. About a year ago I was busy writing articles about the Downtown Community...

The War Against Santa Monica’s Future: Attacking “Fiscal Health”

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Increasingly it seems that people who live comfortable, established lives in Santa Monica are just not interested in making room for new people to have the same opportunities they did when they first moved...

Suburban-style Office Park at Former Bergamot Transit Village Site Moves Forward

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The Bergamot Transit Village saga is likely to end this week with a whimper as plans to turn the seven-acre site, once slated to become a mixed-use neighborhood across from the Expo Line 26th...

#DamienTalks 24: New Housing Bills Intersect with Transit, Transpo. Planning

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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...

“A Place Everyone Can Thrive”: Part Two of a Discussion on the Regional Housing...

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Santa Monica Next sat down with Dr. Frederick Zimmerman, an economist and a professor of Public Health at UCLA to talk about the impact our local and regional housing crisis has on our day-to-day lives...

Six Years of Process, and Then… Boom!

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This post originally appeared on The Healthy City Local. At the City Council meeting last Tuesday night on Santa Monica’s Downtown Community Plan (DCP) the ironies abounded. As planning staff has told us many times, the...

White House: “Artificial Constraints” on Housing Growth in Cities Is Contributing to Economic Inequality

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A recent post on the Wall Street Journal noted that White House economists have been wringing their hands over local land use policies throughout the country. The problem, according to Jason Furman, chairman of the...

Don’t Look to Sacramento to Fix California’s Housing Crisis, Says New Report

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A report by California's Legislative Analyst’s Office released Wednesday lays out the limits of state power to solve California’s worsening housing crisis. The report, the most recent in a series from the nonpartisan organization analyzing...

Santa Monica Seeks Volunteers for Annual Homeless Count

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The city of Santa Monica is looking for volunteers to help with its annual homelessness count, which helps the city keep tabs on and take steps to address the growing problem of people without...
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