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# Nice digs for the down-and-out
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/nice-digs-for-the-down-and-out-editor/
- Published: 2005-08-23T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T07:36:38.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless

*By Sara Chesluk Santa Monica*

While I am generally supportive of services for the homeless, I was amazed to read in “Wishes granted for alcoholics, chronic homeless” (SMDP, weekend edition, Aug. 20-21, page 1) that the HUD funds will be used to place them in “market-rate housing,” and later that the homeless people have been placed in one-bedroom apartments in Santa Monica.

We all know this is an extremely high-rent city. Unless these are women with children, how can the city explain placing the homeless in one-bedroom apartments when many people who work here cannot afford those apartments? Could some of that money not be used to provide other services?

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 23, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/082305.pdf?ref=smdp.com)