The growing residential population living within the downtown core, above shops and beside transit.
What we love
The area today
Residents downtown
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Awaiting verified data
Statistics and city data are placeholders until verified sources are added.
Issues & challenges
Supply, affordability, stability, and the mix of housing types across the city.
How safe people feel and are in public spaces, on transit, and in their neighborhoods, day and night.
Plazas, promenades, sidewalks, and the quality of the shared outdoor room.
New buildings, land use decisions, and long-range planning.
Cleaning, permits, response times, and everyday municipal service quality.
People living unhoused in the city, and the housing, health, and outreach systems that respond.
Access to parks, fields, courts, playgrounds, and programs.
Opportunities
Projects & ideas
No projects or proposals have been added for Downtown Residential yet. Community concepts, city projects, and experiments will appear here.
Community
Local stories and memories will be collected here.
Community photo contributions are not open yet.
Idea submission and neighborhood polls are planned.
Local groups and events will be listed here.
On the map
Keep exploring
The dense core between the freeway and the ocean — offices, apartments, hotels, shopping, and the E Line terminus.
Three car-free blocks of shopping, street performance, and public gathering between Wilshire and Broadway.
A dense apartment district between Wilshire and Montana, walkable to downtown, the bluffs, and neighborhood shops.
A low-scale commercial street from Pico to the Venice border, lined with independent shops, cafés, and restaurants.
Part of the Explore Santa Monica project
