Sustainability Award: Santa Monica

City of Santa Monica
Excellence Award for Visionary Planning for Sustainability

2008-2014 Santa Monica Housing Element

Santa Monica’s Housing Element promotes sustainable land use and design concepts by providing for a range of new affordable housing opportunities within commercial areas, new housing options downtown, and planning for future housing as a component of transit-oriented development along the planned Expo light rail line.

As of January 2008, Santa Monica had 1,126 new housing units either “on the ground,” approved, or planned, and will exceed its RHNA requirement of 662 units by at least 464 units. Of this total, 412 will be affordable.