Know Your Renter’s Rights
By Sonya Sultan, SMRR Secretary and Executive Committee member SMRR makes every effort to ensure that renters are secure in their homes. Such efforts are especially important now that the economy is improving, because...
SMRR - Renters Write
Protecting the Downtown We Love
By Jennifer Kennedy, SMRR Treasurer and Planning Commissioner The Santa Monica Downtown Community Plan is currently underway at City Hall. What is the Downtown Community Plan? It is a document that will consist of...
Addressing Trends and Making Progress
By Ted Winterer, Mayor Pro Tempore If you’ve ever driven from Santa Monica to the Grand Canyon you at one point close to the park on the Kaibab Plateau passed through the largest monoculture...
Santa Monica: The Year Ahead
By Tony Vazquez, Mayor As Mayor of Santa Monica, I have one simple and fundamental goal for this year: I want to get things done. I want to thank former mayor Kevin McKeown, who...
SMRR Members, Thank You!
By Co-Chairs Patricia Hoffman and Denny Zane SMRR members: It made us both very proud when more than 200 of you joined us for the annual Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights Convention last November...
State of the City
By Kevin McKeown, Mayor First, thank you. Thank you for electing me to my fifth term, again as top vote getter, and thank you for the privilege of (at last!) serving as your Mayor....
Tenant Harassment Ordinance Amended
By Jennifer Kennedy, SMRR Steering Committee It is hard to believe that on April 10th, the 36th Anniversary of Rent Control, long-term tenants paying low rents are still experiencing unfair treatment from a growing...
Protecting Your Rights
By Councilmember Kevin McKeown When I hear that rent-controlled households are being frog-marched out of their homes with gags in their mouths, I get angry. So do my SMRR colleagues on the City Council....
Hines Development Agreement
By Sonya Sultan, SMRR Steering Committee On February 4, the Santa Monica City Council voted 4-3 to approve the controversial Hines Development Agreement (DA) with only minor revisions and certify the environmental impact report...
35 Years of Progressive Leadership
By Roger Thornton, SMRR Treasurer Thirty-five years ago on April 10, 1979 Santa Monica voters passed the Santa Monica Rent Control Charter Amendment. SMRR created the Rent Control initiative, obtained the necessary signatures to...