Community Corporation of Santa Monica
Creating Housing and Strengthening Community
Welcome to CCSM
About Us
Community Corporation of Santa Monica is a locally based, non-profit organization committed to developing and managing affordable housing in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. A key mission of the organization is to provide housing to lower wage working families.
The corporation is directed by a 21-member board that is socioeconomically and ethnically diverse, comprising of housing and finance experts, tenants and other low-income representatives, and professionals with relevant skills of benefit to CCSM.
Private and public funds are used to develop, build and manage affordable housing in newly constructed complexes and in rehabilitated older buildings.
Our residential structures range in size from a fourplex to a 62-unit building, and the units from studios to four-bedrooms. These buildings are held in trust as a community resource, not for profit but for public benefit, and site-managed by employees hired from the resident pool.
Faces
CCSM's main asset is the people who make up the board of directors, the staff, and the residents. We pride ourselves in creating and promoting a diverse community where members are respectful of and celebrate our many ethnic cultures, age groups, and family compositions.
News
Fall 2009
Fall 2008
Artful Night to Remember
Annual Resident's Beach Party
Longtime Santa Monicans Join Board
Gem Friends
Easy To Be Together
Tahiti Nearing Completion
CCSM Wins High Architects' Honor
CCSM Green Measures
Summer 2007
Spring 2009
Wanta Hear A Fish Story?
New Tahiti Building
Green Efforts
Annual Beach Party
New Buildings in Community Spotlight
Pacific & Main Wins Prize
A Short Distance, But a Big Change
Housing
Sustainability in Our Affordable Housing
CCSM develops affordable housing in order to help retain long-time residents in their homes and neighborhoods as well as to provide residential options to low-income workers near their jobs. By using land efficiently and promoting appropriate density, we demonstrate how our residents and neighbors can enjoy a high quality of life while living sustainably in or next to well-designed buildings in transit-rich areas. As important as new construction, we purchase and rehabilitate rental apartment buildings that would otherwise be removed due to market forces. In the rehabilitation, we extend the building useful life by another 40-50 years and substitute obsolete systems with green materials and technology.
Access to Our Affordable Housing
Every January, CCSM invites households interested in our housing to complete a questionnaire (marketing list). When vacancies come up that match a household's size and income level, CCSM will notify the household to apply for the housing. In the event when there are too many households meeting the vacant unit's household size and income criteria, we will randomly invite a number of these households to apply.
Our sustainable building practice includes a range of design, materials and technology, like:
•Water conservation through xeriscape and permeable paving
•Energy conservation through thermal solar hot water heating,
dual-glazed low-emissivity windows, high R-rated wall and
roof insulation, Energy Star appliances, hydronic space
heating, and energy efficient lighting
•Environmentally-friendly materials like natural linoleum,
recycled carpets, non-off-gassing cabinets, no and low VOC
paints, and engineered lumber
•Energy production through solar photovoltaic panels
•Design that works with the sun and prevailing winds
•Earth-friendly cleaning supplies and methods as well as
vigilant recycling
•Tenant involvement and engagement in all our sustainable
activities
•On-going audit of our standard practice against best practices
During the last months of each year, there may be units, usually small, available for which we have no appropriate marketing list applicants. In those cases, these units will be available to the general public.
If you are interested in our housing, please contact us in early January regarding the marketing list. Please note that we usually receive well over 3,000 households requesting housing each year. We usually have about 100-150 vacancies. If you need affordable housing, please make sure you seek as many alternatives as possible. For more information about affordable housing, please contact www.scanph.org.
Contact Us
Get Directions
CCSM
1423 Second Street Suite B
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Phone: (310) 394-8487
Fax: (310) 395-4336
Contact us via email
Staff & Board
CCSM Staff
CCSM Staff is made up of full-time and part-time employees. Please click the button to view our list of employees.
CCSM Board of Directors
CCSM Board of Directors is made up of 21 members. Please click the button to view our members.
Department Information
Resident Services
Leasing Department
The Resident Services Department of CCSM provides referral services, group workshops and presentations, onsite programming and community outreach.
The Leasing Department of CCSM is responsible for processing applicants for our available units from our Marketing List.
Program
Marketing List
Information
Development
Maintenance Department
The Development Department is responsible for property acquisition, entitlement, financing including tax credits and tax-exempt bonds, and construction.
The Maintenance Department of CCSM works to maintain all of our units in response to the needs of our residents. Workorders are responded to based on a priority system. To place an online work order, please go to Forms & Documents
Forms & Documents
Leasing and Occupancy
Maintenance Workorder
2010 Marketing List FAQ
Please use the form below to send a request for work to be done in your unit. If this is an emergency workorder, please contact your Resident Manager. If this is a life threatening emergency, please call 911
Change of Household Information
Child and Spousal Support
Non-Employment Status Verfication
Your Name
Recertification Questionnaire
Your Email Address
Self-Employment Verification
Your Address / Phone Number
Self Affidavit
Brief Description of the issue
Under $5000 Asset Certification
Zero Income Certification
Resource Request Form
Awards & Recognitions
Over the years, CCSM has received a number of prestigious awards from:
- The United Nations
- The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
- National Endowment of the Arts
- American Institute of Architects
- Fannie Mae Foundation
- The Rudy Brunner Award for Design Excellence
- Mortgage Bankers Association of America
- Progressive Architecture
- Pacific Coast Builders
- Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing
- American Institute of Architects, California Chapter
- American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles Chapter
- Westside Urban Forum
- Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce
2009 Excellence Award Winner
Links
Access to Affordable Housing
Community and Social Services
Connections for Children
www.connectionsforchildren.org
SCANPH www.scanph.org
Westside Shelter & Hunger Coalition www.westsideshelter.org
State of California www.hcd.ca.gov
Wise and Healthy Aging
wiseandhealthyaging.org
St Josephs Center www.stjosephctr.org
LACDC www.lacdc.org
US Department of HUD www.hud.gov
Santa Monica Cultural Affairs
www.arts.santa-monica.org
Healthy City www.healthycity.org
NPH of Northern CA www.nonprofithousing.org
Santa Monica Lifelong Learning smllc.org
City of Santa Monica Human Services Division
www01.smgov.net/hsd
San Diego Housing Federation
www.housingsandiego.org
Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District
www.smmusd.org
Green & Sustainable Housing
Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Monica
www.smbgc.org
Solar Santa Monica www.solarsantamonica.com
Global Green www.globalgreen.org
Venice Family Clinic www.venicefamilyclinic.org
Santa Monica Office of Sustainability
and Environmentwww.smgov.net
Saint Johns Health Center Child and Family Development Center www.stjohns.org
US Green Building Council www.usgbc.org
Chrysalis www.changelives.org
US EPA www.epa.gov
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