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# Letter: Residents say low-income housing on Santa Monica Boulevard is an eyesore
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/122606-story/
- Published: 2006-12-26T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T23:26:19.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Dorothea Warren Santa Monica*

The eyesores continue Editor: To answer Mark Shepherd’s question (“Disturbing SM developments,” Dec. 22, page 4), there is an uglier building than the low income housing at the corner of Broadway and 15th, (it is) the low income housing at Santa Monica and 26th Street.

We went to the community meetings and told them it looked like a Crocker Bank Building from the ’60s. Thank you very much for your input, we were told. Like all our questions about the appropriateness of the location for 40 plus families and the fact that it would increase density in the neighborhood by 200 percent or so, the response we got was another low income building snuck in on us just a few blocks east on Santa Monica Boulevard. No way of telling how ugly it will be. I am holding my breath while we talk — no one listens or cares, they do what they do.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 26, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/122606.pdf?ref=smdp.com)