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Rent Control Board Candidate Profile: Lori Brown

10/18/2018 8:15 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Name: Lori Brown

Age: 58

Occupation: Business owner; Vice Chair of Santa Monica Recreation & Parks; Mother of a public school students.

Neighborhood of residence: Sunset Park; Pico Neighborhood and previously Ocean Park.

Own/Rent: Own the home where my family has lived since 2001; owner of a three-unit rental property since 2013; and former renter of 24 years in rent-controlled units.

Kids: Santiago, a SAMOHI graduate now attending SMC who I adopted from Colombia when he was 12. I am also the legal guardian of a teenage girl who, like most teens, hates when the adults talk about her.

VOTING IS (NOT-) INCUMBENT by Charles Andrews

10/17/2018 10:44 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

KNOW WHAT I’M GOING TO DO?

After the election?

I’m going to start writing about all the good things that go on in our fair city, all the good things our City staff does, all the good that comes from our elected officials. There’s plenty of it. And won’t that be uplifting? And a lot nicer for me?

However —

I can’t in good conscience do that until those people stop doing way more harm than good. I know they don’t see themselves that way, but many of us do, and that’s something they really should pay attention to. But they don’t.

For Rent Control Board you have three challengers to the all-lawyer board. One is a lawyer, also coming straight from SMRR. Of the other two, only one is a property owner and as I said last election, it’s not right to not have them represented, with at least one member, since all the RCB business concerns also property owners. It makes sense to get them in the mix for the best outcome for our many renters. I will bullet vote for only that one.

Rent Control Board Profile Candidate: Naomi Sultan

10/17/2018 10:43 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Read her profile and responses at: http://www.smdp.com/rent-control-board-profile-candidate-naomi-sultan/170082

Nicole Phillis: Rent Control Board Candidate

10/17/2018 10:29 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Prop 10, the housing crisis and more with incumbent candidate.

In the Santa Monica Mirror’s first live-video interview with Santa Monica Rent Control Board candidates, we sit down with Nicole Phillis, who currently sits on the board and is running for reelection as an incumbent in November.

See More: https://smmirror.com/2018/10/nicole-phillis-rent-control-board-candidate/

No on 10

10/16/2018 9:34 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

by Jay Johnson

Editor:

As a past Rent Board Commissioner, Planning Commissioner and past president of the Santa Monica Democratic Club I say, Prop 10 is a disaster for tenants and property owners in Santa Monica: it is poorly written, bad for homeowners and condo owners and taxpayers, and will cost millions to enforce statewide according to State Legislative Analyst Office.

Gavin Newsom, our next governor does not support prop 10. John Chang, Villaragoso, the State Legislature, the NAACP and the building trades unions are all opposed.

Ballot measure would lock lower taxes for older homeowners

10/16/2018 9:32 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Proposition 5 on the Nov. 6 ballot would sharply expand the tax benefit for homeowners over 55 years old, the severely disabled and natural-disaster victims.

Rent Control Board Candidate Profile: Nicole S. Phillis

10/16/2018 9:27 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Read her profile and responses at: http://www.smdp.com/rent-control-board-candidate-profile-nicole-s-phillis/170030

Challenge to Santa Monica's Home-Sharing Law Reaches Court of Appeals

10/16/2018 9:12 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

November 15, 2018 -- The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday began hearing arguments in a lawsuit filed by Airbnb and HomeAway that seeks to invalidate key sections of Santa Monica's pioneering homesharing law.

Attorneys for the two online companies are seeking to invalidate portions of the City's law that penalize online platforms for booking short-term rentals of unlicensed properties.

On Friday, the plaintiffs argued that the local ordinance is upending their business model by forcing them to remove illegal listings and poses an economic threat to the growing industry if other cities follow suit, according to a report in courthousenews.com.

Proposition 10: California’s rent-control ballot measure explained

10/16/2018 9:08 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

California voters face a momentous decision this fall on the future of rent control — at a time when stress over high rents, displacement and homelessness has reached a boiling point.

You’ve probably heard plenty of conflicting messages about the merits of this statewide ballot measure, Proposition 10. To help you make sense of this complex debate and what it could mean for landlords and the nearly 6 million renters in California, we lay out the basics

Appellate Court Clears Path for Martin Expo Town Center Development

10/16/2018 9:05 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Olympic Boulevard and Bundy Drive

Plans to construct a mixed-use complex featuring apartments and offices at the current site of Martin Cadillac in West Los Angeles can move forward, according to a ruling last week by California's Second District Court of Appeal.

The Martin Cadillac project calls for the construction of a 10-story, 160-foot tall office building featuring roughly 200,000 square feet of rentable space. A seven-story, 516-unit apartment building is planned for the northern and western perimeter..