Ribbon Cutting Celebrates New Mixed-Use Affordable Housing at Vermont/Santa Monica Metro Station
Today community leaders celebrated by cutting a ceremonial ribbon for the Santa Monica & Vermont Apartments, a transit-oriented mixed-use affordable housing project located in East Hollywood. The new Santa Monica & Vermont development provides 185 affordable units. Half are permanent supportive housing for people who have experienced homelessness; half are housing set aside for low-income households.
Community and governmental leaders cut the ribbon to celebrate the grand opening of the Santa Monica & Vermont project
The project broke ground in 2022. It has been open for about a year and is already serving over 300 residents. The grand opening had been planned for last June, but was postponed when federal ICE raids initially terrorized Southern California.
Santa Monica & Vermont was developed by the Little Tokyo Service Center as a joint development with Metro; each entity owns parts of the land the development is on. The new housing is immediately adjacent to, nearly on top of, the Metro B Line Vermont/Santa Monica Boulevard Station.
Metro Board First Vice Chair Jacqueline Dupont-Walker paised the Santa Monica & Vermont project as “truly affordable housing that reaches many income levels” and a “job well done”
Little Tokyo Service Center Director of Real Estate Debbie Chen described Santa Monica & Vermont as a “housing plus plus plus project” as it includes five stories of housing atop 20,000 square feet of ground floor commercial space, and that’s not all. With state Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) funding, the project improves transit, with new DASH buses, bus shelters, sidewalks, crosswalks, and more.
Additional project funds came from L.A. City Measure ULA and Measure HHH.
The real story of Santa Monica & Vermont is how it is already improving peoples’ lives. At today’s ribbon-cutting, resident Ginger Henriquez related that her family’s “new home has brought us stability – financially, emotionally and mentally.”
“In our home we are no longer just getting by,” Henriquez proclaimed, “we are planning for our future.”
Below are additional resident testimonial videos, shared by LTSC, and photos of the handsome new mixed-use development.
Santa Monica & Vermont apartments surrounding the Metro B Line Vermont/Santa Monica Boulevard Station
Additional project frontage along Vermont Avenue
Affordable housing balconies overlooking the Metro station plaza
Santa Monica & Vermont first floor common room for residents
Outdoor dining and barbecue space for residents
Second floor courtyard overlooks the adjacent Metro Station
The Santa Monica & Vermont Apartments inner courtyard
Santa Monica & Vermont Apartments kids play area
View of the back side of the project, on New Hampshire Avenue
Added May 1: Below are Metro and Streetsblog short videos about the project.
