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# South SM is stacked with social services
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/south-sm-is-stacked-with-social-services/
- Published: 2006-11-20T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T23:08:21.000Z
- Author: Bill Bauer
- Tags: Opinion, Downtown, #archive-import, Homeless

The City of Santa Monica decided not to loan Step Up on Second the sum of $465,000 to purchase property at 1826 Pearl Street for a halfway house.

Step Up planned to adapt the single-family bungalow with two separate one-bedroom apartments across from Santa Monica College for a transitional living facility for young adults suffering from the early stages of mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression.

The loan was denied because the property is a triplex with three living units, not a single “group home,” as required by the loan. Neighbors’ concerns about safety and the neighborhood’s high number of existing services for the homeless and mentally ill also weighed heavily on the decision to deny the loan, according to published reports.

The city’s zoning codes allow a wide range of low-income housing, service and board and care facilities in R2, R3, R4 and commercial areas without any public input, whatsoever. Downtown Santa Monica and the Pico Boulevard corridor are already home to a large number of services.

Step Up on Second (1328 Second Street, 36 units of housing) provides psychosocial rehabilitation for people who suffer from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or severe depression. A second facility, with 46 units of housing, is scheduled to open in early 2008 on Fifth Street, between Broadway and Colorado Avenue. There’s Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), which services people with severe and persistent mental illness, and Daniel’s Place, also at 2701 Ocean Park Blvd., which services young people with mental illness.

Chrysalis Employment Assistance (1837 Lincoln Blvd.) provides comprehensive employment assistance to Santa Monica homeless and low-income residents. Chrysalis Supportive Housing Program provides job development and case management for homeless persons.

CLARE Foundation (909 Pico Blvd.) and CLARE Foundation Serial Inebriate Outreach Program and Coordinated Case Management (911 Pico Blvd.) provide services for homeless clients, substance abusers and serial inebriates, including assessment, referrals and detoxification.

Men’s Recovery Home (1871 Ninth Street) and Women’s Recovery Home (1023 Pico Blvd.) provides sober living, outpatient services and drug court programs.

The Manor (formerly Hirschorn Manor, at 1905 Pico Blvd.) and The Manor (2019 Pico Blvd.) are licensed residential care facilities for chronically mentally ill, developmentally disabled or dually diagnosed adults from 18 to 60.

Ocean Housing Foundation Apartments, on the 1500 block of Euclid Avenue, has 13 units for the developmentally disabled.

Common Ground, The Westside HIV Community Center, at 2012 Lincoln Blvd., provides support services those with AIDS/HIV. OPCC’s Night Light also uses it as a youth drop in center.

Salvation Army Adult Rehab Center (1665 10th Street) is a residential program for adult recovery.

OPCC has a number of programs in a variety of locations, including the OPCC Access Center, Night Light and the OPCC Shelter Plus Care Program (1616 Seventh St.) that provides case management, crisis intervention, outreach, referrals, mail boxes and meals to homeless individuals. The OPCC Supportive Housing Program provides independent living services, case management, and aftercare for the homeless and their family members. SOJOURN (1453 16th St.) services battered women and their children.

OPCC Daybreak Day Center and Shelter for Women (1614 Ocean Avenue), with 15 beds, provides emergency services to mentally ill homeless women. OPCC SAMOSHEL shelter (505 Olympic Blvd.) provides 110 emergency beds to homeless adults. Adjoining SHWASHLOCK provides showers, laundry and lockers.

OPCC Turning Point Shelter (1447 16th St.) provides 55 beds of transitional housing and case management. OPCC Westside Safe Haven (1751 Cloverfield Blvd.), opening in a few weeks with 55 beds, will serve hard-to-reach homeless men and women who suffer from severe mental illness, addiction, or physical illness.

The Pico Youth & Family Center (828 Pico Blvd.) provides supervised activities for youth 16-24 years of age, including counseling, support groups, learning, leadership training and service, tutoring and college prep services, job development and placement, computer training and a music production studio.

St. Joseph Center, at 400 Pico Blvd. (across from Samohi), provides help for poor families and homeless men, women, and children.

Westside Food Bank (1710 22nd St.) provides emergency food to homeless and low-income residents of Santa Monica through 20 member agencies. Westside Family Health Center (1711 Ocean Park Blvd.) provides comprehensive health services for adults and children.

Venice Family Clinic — Simms/Mann Health and Wellness Center (2509 Pico Blvd.) provides free, quality health care to people in need.

The YWCA (2019 14th St.) provides transitional housing for young women emancipated from foster care.

Add nearly 60 low-income apartment buildings south of Wilshire Boulevard and it’s no wonder people are asking, “How much is enough?”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 20, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/112006.pdf?ref=smdp.com)