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Santa Monica's 'Builder's Remedy' Experiment Holds Lessons for the Region
More than 124 municipalities across Southern California are struggling to meet their state housing allocations. When Santa Monica fell out of compliance with state housing law, this triggered what is known as the ”builder's remedy“ and created a revealing natural experiment.
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Nov 8, 2022
Santa Monica Daily Press
Jason M. Ward @jason_m_ward

Homelessness

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ISIS, Homelessness, India's Election: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on what can be done about ISIS detainees, a program that helps reduce homelessness, Modi's reelection in India, and more.
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Jun 7, 2019
Health and Wellness Promotion

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Expo Line Could Enhance Wellbeing in Santa Monica
On May 20, the long-awaited Metro Expo Line will begin service to Santa Monica. Viewing urban mobility as a key component of community wellbeing may be an instructive way to assess the impact of Expo and other infrastructure efforts.
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May 6, 2016
Santa Monica Daily Press
Douglas Yeung @DouglasCYeung
Health and Wellness Promotion

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A Chance to Thrive: What We Can Learn from One City's Effort to Transform Community
RAND researchers have partnered with the city of Santa Monica, California to redefine not just how cities measure success, but how they assess their very purpose for being.
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Mar 8, 2016
Health and Wellness Promotion

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Wellbeing Project to Weave Science Into Government Decisions
Wellbeing is about individuals having the skills and opportunity to live a meaningful life. There are countless things that cities do that either contribute or detract from that sense of meaning. Santa Monica's Wellbeing Project is working to fundamentally change how the government thinks about its citizens.
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Apr 29, 2015
Santa Monica Daily Press
Anita Chandra
Urban Planning

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RAND Is Helping Santa Monica Measure the City's Overall Well-Being
The RAND Corporation is helping its hometown of Santa Monica, Calif., become the first city in America to use a measurement of overall well-being to drive public policy.
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Mar 1, 2013

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The COP decisionmaking process reflects its members' consensus views. And therein lies the problem. The Paris Agreement should have achieved the socially better outcomes of binding emissions control to finance and binding each country to its target of emissions and finance.…That it did not do so was because the coalitions' views prevailed rather than the social good.

Rafiq Dossani

Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy

Source: United Press International

Women have fought in wars for as long as humans have waged them. Yet that long history has been either lost or purposefully hidden, complicating efforts to expand women's military roles even as we have steadily gained greater equality in other fields.

Kayla M. Williams

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: Association of the U.S. Army

What Climate-Related Conflict Could Mean for U.S. Central Command

National Identity and the Origins of the War in Ukraine

Can NATO Supercharge Military Greening?

Book Review: 'Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat' by Sarah Percy

Preventing Domestic Violent Extremism: Insights from RAND Research

The Policy Currents Podcast

Developing Strategies for Summer Learning

Improving Psychological Wellbeing and Work Outcomes in the UK

Planning for the Rising Costs of Dementia

Helping Coastal Communities Plan for Climate Change

Santa Monica

Santa Monica's 'Builder's Remedy' Experiment Holds Lessons for the Region

ISIS, Homelessness, India's Election: RAND Weekly Recap

Expo Line Could Enhance Wellbeing in Santa Monica

A Chance to Thrive: What We Can Learn from One City's Effort to Transform Community

Wellbeing Project to Weave Science Into Government Decisions

RAND Is Helping Santa Monica Measure the City's Overall Well-Being

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