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# Mel Bloch Santa Monica Housing tough for all economic classes
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/mel-bloch-santa-monica-housing-tough-for-all-economic-classes/
- Published: 2002-03-22T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:09:45.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Malibu, #archive-import

*By Joanne Gamlin Santa Monica*

John Deasy with an income of $150,000 and being Santa Monica Malibu District School superintendent will surely locate acceptable housing eventually. The people with the real problem are those who make only a tiny fraction of that amount. Most of them cannot afford to rent an apartment within 15 miles of Santa Monica.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 22, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/032202.pdf?ref=smdp.com)