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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.
Nov 8, 2022
Report
Local Effort Reduces Homelessness and Use of City Services
A program that provided people experiencing chronic homelessness with housing, health care, and other services helped them get off the streets and reduced spending on public services, such as emergency medical care.
Jun 5, 2019

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Blog
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.
Jun 7, 2019
News Release
Smaller City Effort to Aid Chronically Homeless Has Success, Cuts Use of Municipal Services
Creating a municipally funded team to provide intensive services to chronically homeless people who use a large amount of public services can help the individuals get off the streets, while also reducing spending on services such as police services and emergency medical care.
Jun 5, 2019
Dissertation
Treatment Not Custody: Process and Impact Evaluation of the Santa Monica Homeless Community Court
This dissertation is a process and impact evaluation of the Santa Monica Homeless Community Court.
Sep 18, 2018
Multimedia
Santa Monica's Wellbeing Project
RAND experts and Santa Monica city officials discuss the Wellbeing Project, which aimed to evaluate overall community wellbeing and incorporate these results into city planning and governance.
Sep 29, 2017
Solution
Measuring Wellbeing to Help Communities Thrive
The city of Santa Monica wanted to incorporate wellbeing into city planning, policies, and programs. RAND researchers, as part of a team of experts, helped create a framework for measuring wellbeing and applying the findings to city planning.
Nov 22, 2016
Commentary
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.
May 6, 2016
Essay
Learning 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. This “Wellbeing Index” posits that cities can improve not just the safety and comfort of their residents, but also their happiness.
Mar 8, 2016
Periodical
RAND Review: March-April 2016
This issue highlights RAND research on new ways to measure wellbeing in cities; effects of cigarette advertising on teens; supermarkets in so-called "food deserts"; the decline of civics education in American schools; and more.
Feb 29, 2016
Commentary
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.
Apr 29, 2015
Report
Early and School-Age Care in Santa Monica: Current System, Policy Options, and Recommendations: Executive Summary
In July 2012, the City of Santa Monica Human Services Division and the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District contracted with the RAND Corporation to conduct an assessment of child care programs in Santa Monica.
Apr 25, 2014
Report
Early and School-Age Care in Santa Monica
Researchers examine how well Santa Monica's child care programs meet the needs of families, including child care and early education programs before kindergarten, as well as care for school-aged children, both during the school year and the summer.
Apr 25, 2014
Blog
RAND Is Helping Santa Monica Measure the City's Overall Well-Being
RAND is helping its hometown of Santa Monica, Calif., become the first city in America to use a measurement of overall wellbeing to drive public policy.
Mar 1, 2013
Report
Santa Monica Municipal Airport (SMO) Options for the Future
This briefing offers a menu of potential future activities for the nonaviation lands at Santa Monica Municipal Airport (SMO) to enhance the quality of life in Santa Monica through community-linked programs.
Feb 23, 2012

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