Visitors can engage with interactive models and are encouraged in the process to consider questions like “What makes a home?”
By Zach Armstrong
The Santa Monica History Museum will open its new exhibit “UnHoused: A History of Housing in Santa Monica” on Friday, Feb. 2.
Running through December, the exhibit explores the history of the L.A. neighborhood’s housing legacy with various policy and development perspectives. Pertinent topics include migration, affordability, redlining, restrictive covenants and rent control, affordable housing, support systems for the homelessness, equity and inclusion and historic preservation in maintaining cultural identity.
Visitors can engage with interactive models and are encouraged in the process to consider questions like “What makes a home?” and “Why does Santa Monica look the way it does today?”
“Housing is perhaps the preeminent issue in our region and across all of California.” said Rob Schwenker, Executive Director of the Santa Monica History Museum, in a statement. “It is critical to understand where we’ve been and how we got here.”
