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Pandemic Heightens Importance of Housing Rights in Santa Monica

03/02/2021 8:28 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Gary Rhoades is a Deputy City Attorney in the Public Rights Division of the Santa Monica City Attorney’s Office.

In response to these needs and the heightened state of housing rights, the City has implemented new housing rights measures along with continuing its community education and enforcement efforts:

Vaccinations begin for SMMUSD staff and teachers

03/02/2021 8:24 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Staff at Santa Monica-Malibu schools began receiving vaccinations on Monday as part of the County’s Phase 1b vaccine expansion that includes roughly 1.3 million essential workers.

Tesla looks to add 62-stall Supercharger station in Santa Monica

03/02/2021 8:23 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Tesla is looking to expand its network of Supercharging stations in the Westside and company officials are eying Santa Monica as the potential site of a new 62-stall Supercharger station.

City Seeks Input from Santa Monica Workers on Housing and Transportation

03/02/2021 8:19 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

This week, the City of Santa Monica launched a new online survey in English and Spanish seeking input from Santa Monica’s workforce related to their transportation and housing needs. Every eight years, information gathered from the Santa Monica Employee Transportation and Housing survey helps the City understand how workers travel and their housing preferences, and gathers race and income demographics of Santa Monica’s workforce in preparation of the Housing Element update, now underway.

Large Properties Drive-up Santa Monica Home Sales

03/01/2021 8:08 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Interest in large properties with five-bedrooms or more helped drive-up single-family home sales in Santa Monica and the surrounding area amid the pandemic. So who is buying these properties?

Pico Neighborhood Affordable Housing Project Breaks Ground

03/01/2021 8:06 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

On February 9, R.D. Olson Construction announced it had broke ground on a 73-unit, 94,000-square-foot, affordable housing community at 1834 14th Street in Santa Monica, across from Woodlawn Cemetery. The project, called Las Flores Santa Monica is expected to be complete in fall of 2022 with a mix of 35 one-, 19 two- and 19 three-bedroom units.

Mayor Eric Garcetti Urges Property Owners To Sign Up For City’s New Program

02/28/2021 8:56 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Mayor Eric Garcetti Wednesday urged property owners to sign up for the city’s Lease-Up program, which matches landlords with tenants who need a home, with rent guaranteed by the government.

SMa.r.t. Column: Texas Comes to SMMUSD

02/26/2021 9:50 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

The biggest restraint in creating a sustainable and resilient City is that it costs slightly more to prepare for climate change, than to keep doing the same thing that got us into the climate change problem to begin with. Probably our biggest public offender is the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District because they are over funded in their capital budget which they squander on unnecessary overpriced projects, tolerate cost overruns, and neglect maintenance while they consistently refuse to take the necessary steps to build the really needed school district of the future. In other words SMMUSD has the funds but doesn’t have the vision of what’s really needed.

What's Missing from City of Santa Monica's Report on Addressing Homelessness

02/25/2021 8:39 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

The City must stop focusing on the process and focus on quantifiable objectives, and the measurable milestones required to achieve them.

Santa Monica to Explore New Ways to Tackle Homelessness

02/25/2021 8:29 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

The City Council on Tuesday directed staff to explore creating "non-congregate" shelters in City properties such as parking structures to make it easier to enforce "quality of life" laws.

AND: https://www.smdp.com/council-joins-community-for-study-session-homelessness/202289