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Housing Element Challenges May 20, 2021 Leave this field empty if you're human: SMRR is dedicated to maintaining and enhancing the unique quality of life for all residents in the City of Santa Monica. In order to achieve this goal, we resolve: 1. To support and defend local rent control laws. 2. To run campaigns to elect progressive candidates to l... ocal offices. 3. To support progressive public officials and promote accountability to the public by public officials. 4. To open the democratic process to all citizens without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or political belief. 5. To seek to improve social services including child care and services for the elderly. 6. To improve and increase open space. 7. To support planned growth while protecting neighborhoods from overdevelopment. 8. To increase and improve access to affordable housing for persons of limited income. 9. To enhance the safety of residents and reduce crime. 10. To increase public participation in government by supporting community organizations. 11. To support efforts to ensure a safe and clean environment. 12. To improve the educational opportunities for all age levels. 13. To support human rights including reproductive rights. In the 1970s, Santa Monica fell victim to the amazing Los Angeles Real Estate boom. Speculation in apartment buildings was brisk and condo conversions hit the city in force. The Santa Monica City Council turned a deaf ear to the pleas of tenants as skyrocketing rents forces may out of their homes. In response to the crisis, tenants, neighborhood groups, and local political organizations joined forces in 1978 to form Santa Monicans for Renters Rights (SMRR). Here is what weve done: On April 10, 1979, SMRR wins passage of the Strongest rent control law in the country and elects two persons to the Santa Monica City Council. 1979 2000 SMRR elects seventeen members to Santa Monicas City Council. Many serve multiple terms. From its inception in 1979, SMRR candidates win every ...Read More