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It's not clear why this information is coming out now, but here it is. From the Bruin: UCLA has pulled out of its agreement with Santa Monica College to build affordable housing for students at both schools.

SMC and UCLA planned to construct a building on SMC’s Bundy Campus near the Santa Monica airport. It would have housed 750 students in apartment-style units, each with four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a kitchen, according to the Corsair, SMC’s student newspaper.

However, a UCLA administrator told SMC in February that the university would no longer be able to participate in the project for financial reasons, said Don Girard, SMC’s senior director of government relations and institutional communications...

Girard said seeing other UCs work on similar projects – including UC Riverside, which partnered with the Riverside Community College District to create apartment-style housing for nearly 1,600 students – [had] made him confident in the feasibility of the SMC-UCLA plan... Girard said that while neither party signed an official contract, the project was seen as a “very serious process” – which included the SMC administrators touring UCLA Housing facilities and the consultation of attorneys...

Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2025/07/21/ucla-pulls-out-of-affordable-housing-discussion-with-santa-monica-college.