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Expo Bike Path temporary closure signage

Opinion: Three-Month Expo Bike Path Closure Offers Win-Win Safe Streets Opportunity

By Juan Matute | Aug 14, 2017 | 1 Comment

At L.A.-Santa Monica border, a stretch of Expo bike path will soon close for maintenance. The temporary closure is an opportunity for implementing temporary safe bicycling improvements.

People crossing Ocean Avenue into Downtown Santa Monica from Palisades Park. Photo via the Pedestrian Action Plan.

Santa Monica City Council Pushes for Dedicated Funding, Staff for Safer Streets

By Jason Islas | May 10, 2017 | No Comments

Santa Monica's City Council is moving to take Vision Zero more seriously.

Don’t Look to Sacramento to Fix California’s Housing Crisis, Says New Report

By Jason Islas | Mar 10, 2017 | 3 Comments

A report by California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office released Wednesday lays out the limits of state power to solve California’s worsening housing crisis.

Polling place photo via Santa Monica Next

Can We Cool It with the Ballot Box Planning Measures Already?

By Jason Islas | Mar 8, 2017 | 8 Comments

With defeats of Measures S and LV, voters have rejected the myth that the problems of urban planning can be solved with a simple yes-or-no vote at the ballot box

Bloom and his colleagues spoke Friday about action the State legislature will be taking to address California’s worsening housing crisis. Photo courtesy of Assemblymember Bloom’s office.

State Legislators Put California’s Housing Crisis in the Crosshairs

By Jason Islas | Mar 7, 2017 | 1 Comment

At a press conference in San Francisco Friday, state legislators announced their plans to tackle California’s growing housing crisis. As a lack of new housing construction continues to make California unaffordable for all but the wealthiest households, Assemblymembers Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters), Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica), Rob Bonta (D-Oakland), and Kevin Mullin […]

Santa Monica's average annual job, population, and housing growth from 1980 to 2015, compared. The above chart was inspired by this similar chart made by the Sightline Institute to compare job, population, and housing growth in Seattle from 2010 to 2015.

Lack of Housing Growth Compounding Inequality, Says CA Housing Dept.

By Jason Islas | Jan 6, 2017 | 10 Comments

Housing affordability in California is the worst it has been in state history according to a report from the CA Dept. of Housing and Community Development. The affordability crisis is due to a dire housing shortage and an overall failure of CA cities to allow enough new housing growth to absorb growing demand.

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