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# john H. Whitehead That Rutherford Guy Let’s help seniors stay
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/john-h-whitehead-send-comments-to-editor-smdp-com-that-rutherford-guy-lets-help-seniors-stay-editor/
- Published: 2007-06-28T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-25T00:18:27.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Mathew L. Millen Santa Monica*

The residents of Santa Monica owe a huge debt of gratitude to Bill Bauer for exposing the city of Santa Monica’s conscious decision not to build low income housing for senior citizens (“Elderly get shorted by housing policies,” June 25).

What the general public does not seem to know is that the SMRR-controlled City Council gave the City Housing Manager the authority to spend up to $20 million of taxpayer money to develop every low income housing project. These developments are without citizen input and no Council vote approving or denying the proposed project. As Mr. Bauer so aptly pointed out, Prop. “I” did not provide for a fixed percentage of units to be set aside for the elderly. Consequently, the SMRR-controlled Council’s goal is multi-family housing for their campaign workers, at the expense of the elderly.

Of course, they want to keep all this quiet. But Mr. Bauer shined light on their little secret.

The solution is for groups concerned about the plight of the elderly to sponsor a ballot proposition that 1) would require all city funded low income housing projects to be approved by the City Council, and 2) 50 percent of the city developed low income housing be set aside for the elderly.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 28, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/062807.pdf?ref=smdp.com)