December 16, 2025
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Guest Columnist: A Perspective…

Six or so years ago,  I started reading some pieces in a local Santa Monica paper.  I was struck by those pieces.  They were articulating the issues of how a city approaches development that reflected […]

When Reality Meets the Housing Element

Affordability is the housing issue in Santa Monica (SM). Densification of the City is the primary objective of the draft 2021 – 2029 Housing Element, ostensibly to address an 8,895 RHNA unit target that is […]

Santa Monica Affordable Housing Development Takes Shape

Pacific Landing apartments underway at Lincoln and Pacific  By Sam Catanzaro A $28 million affordable housing development is taking shape on Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica.  Work has now progressed past street level for the […]

Is Permanent Housing the Real Homeless Solution?

The ultimate goal of city and county agencies trying to solve California’s homeless problem is to get this transient populace into permanent housing. But it turns out many of the homeless don’t want the kind […]

SMa.r.t. Column: Everyone Has a Plan……

In the summer of 2010 your City adopted its Land Use and Circulation element (LUCE). This legal document, a product of 6 years of public meetings, hearings, debates and revisions, was to govern the next […]

Wilshire West Medical Tower Refinanced With $42.5M Loan

$42.5 million in refinancing for Wilshire West Medical Tower By Chad Winthrop A commercial property capital firm has landed $40 million in refinancing for an 12-story Wilshire Boulevard medical tower with a penthouse. As announced […]