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Santa Monica Homelessness Stable but Concentrated Downtown (opens the original)
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Santa Monica's homeless population has held relatively steady for a decade but it remains heavily concentrated downtown, where it has more impact on businesses and visitors, according to a new RAND Corporation study. The report, "Santa Monica's Recent Economic and Social Trends: A Case Study with Regional Comparisons," found that homelessness in the city has been stable since 2017, both overall and among people living unsheltered. The highest count in that period came in 2019, before the pandemi
Santa Monica Housing Approvals Reformed, But Construction Still Slow (opens the original)
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Santa Monica has overhauled the way it approves housing, but the reforms have not yet produced more construction, and a typical project still takes more than six years to go from application to move-in, according to a new RAND Corporation study. The report, "Santa Monica's Recent Economic and Social Trends: A Case Study with Regional Comparisons," found that from 2018 to 2025, Santa Monica built fewer new homes per resident than any of eight comparison jurisdictions except Beverly Hills. The gro
Santa Monica Hotels Filling Rooms but Earning Less Revenue (opens the original)
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Santa Monica's hotels are filling rooms at a higher rate than their regional competitors, but they are taking in less money to do it, and the city's broader tourism economy has lagged its neighbors since the pandemic, according to a new RAND Corporation study. The report, "Santa Monica's Recent Economic and Social Trends: A Case Study with Regional Comparisons," found that Santa Monica's hotel occupancy reached 76% by March 2026, the highest of any hotel submarket the researchers examined. The c
Santa Monica retail crisis: Sales down a third, vacancies soar (opens the original)
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Santa Monica's retail sales have fallen by about one-third from pre-pandemic levels and are still declining, while its storefront and office vacancy rates remain among the highest in the region, according to a new RAND Corporation study. The report, "Santa Monica's Recent Economic and Social Trends: A Case Study with Regional Comparisons," found that taxable sales at Santa Monica businesses recovered to only 89% of their 2015 level in mid-2021, after adjusting for inflation, then fell to almost
Santa Monica Violence Doubled Downtown, RAND Study Finds (opens the original)
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Aggravated assaults and robberies in Santa Monica roughly doubled over the past decade, but the increase was overwhelmingly a downtown problem, and most other crimes have held steady across the rest of the city for two decades, according to a new RAND Corporation study. The report, "Santa Monica's Recent Economic and Social Trends: A Case Study with Regional Comparisons," examined 20 years of Santa Monica Police Department records for eight offenses. It found that aggravated assault rose more th
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