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07.31.17 Volume 16 Issue 223
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Council approves new subsidy for senior renters MATTHEW HALL Daily Press Editor
City Hall has approved a new program to help some of the city’s most at need renters stay in their homes. The Preserving Our Diversity program will provide financial aid to low-income, long-term residents, aged 62 and older, who live in rent controlled apartments said the staff report. The POD program would set aside $200,000 to help seniors pay rent and another $100,000 to pay for administrative costs. To identify the eventual recipients, City Hall sent a survey to about 27,500 rent controlled households. Officials received 814 responses and of those, 433 did not already receive a government benefit (a prerequisite for the Santa Monica program). After applying additional criteria, the program identified 26 individuals for the program. The pro-
posal calls for providing 12 months of rental assistance while the study is conducted with funding for an additional two months to conclude or transition the program. While it’s being called a “pilot” program, staff said they have an expectation the 26 individuals chosen for the first year will continue to receive city aid beyond the conclusion of the 12-14 month study. According to staff, the amount of the subsidy will vary per household and is based on providing tenants with a minimum quality of life after paying for housing costs. Staff said in order to meet basic needs, a one-person household needs to have $740 available after rent while a two-person household needs $1,293. Staff said the average subsidy for the first 26 applicants will be $460 for one person and $720 for two. SEE SUBSIDY PAGE 7
Multi family units are composting MARINA ANDALON Daily Press Staff Writer
Residents in Santa Monica are collecting their food scraps and saving them to create a natural soil. Recently Global Green, Santa Monica based non-profit has educated over 650 households on the benefits of composting food scraps and provided valuable training and resources. This action has led to nearly 85,000 pounds of organic waste being composted. Composting is the natural recycling of organic materials like food scraps and yard waste. Through the natural process where bacteria and other living organisms break down the scraps and yard waste are formed into a more basic building block of soil. The end product of the process is something that you can add to
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soil to give it greater nutritional value, for the plants, and aid in its ability to retain water. Global Green is an advocate for sustainable living and launched the food scrap pilot project in 2014 with the goal being to divert food scraps from landfills and find the best practice in effective tenant outreach engagement. They wanted to see what could guide a large-scale program. It gained a lot of support in 2016, and financial support from the Walmart Foundation. It wasn’t long until Global Green expanded to 17 new and mostly low to middle income multifamily dwellings. Global Green is consistently working in collaboration with municipalities, housing associaSEE COMPOST PAGE 7
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