The Santa Monica City Council unanimously endorsed the final draft Downtown Community Plan (DCP) at last night’s Council meeting on July 11, 2017. This result came after a six year-long planning process that concluded with more than 100 community members providing public testimony on the...
A new report by the California Housing Partnership Corporation released Monday revealed that L.A. County was short more than half a million affordable rental homes to meet the needs of the region’s low-income residents. Read more here ...
Nonprofit affordable housing developer Community Corporation of Santa Monica broke ground last week on a new five-story project called The Arroyo that will include 64 apartments available to low-income tenants. See the full article on the Curbed Los Angeles' website, Here...
Compared to the 900,000 square feet in apartment/mixed use projects that might one day be its neighbors, the building in progress at 1626 Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica is tiny. See the full article on the Santa Monica Lookout's website, Here...
Community Corporation of Santa Monica, the city’s lead nonprofit affordable housing provider, held a ceremony Tuesday to celebrate the organization’s newest project, The Arroyo. See the full article on the Santa Monica Next website, Here...
Interest in solving homelessness has intensified over the past year. But there’s a side to the crisis that hasn’t garnered as much attention — entire families are slipping into homelessness. There are more than 16,000 homeless families in L.A. County alone. Here’s why that’s happening. Click...
As California’s Legislature braces for a Trump presidency, the tangled trifecta of development, affordable housing and homelessness continues to occupy minds in Santa Monica. Business and affordable housing advocates, ever capricious comrades, expressed a collective sigh of relief at the demise of development-restricting Measure LV in...
The Santa Monica Housing Authority Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program wait list will open January 31, 2017, 8am to 8pm and only online applications will be accepted. Click the link below to go to the City of Santa Monica's website for more information and how...
Developers Diana McIver, Jonathan Rose, and Stephen Whyte; affordable housing resident Chomba Kaluba; attorney and former congressman Rick Lazio; and president and CEO of Enterprise Community Investment Charlie Werhane share why affordable housing matters. Click here to watch the video http://www.housingfinance.com/videos/how-affordable-housing-is-more-than-shelter_o ...
I am happy to introduce myself to Santa Monica as the new Executive Director of Community Corp., which is a non-profit organization established in the city in 1982 that provides affordable housing to more than 4,000 Santa Monica residents. For close to two decades, I...