Media Coverage

Read more about our efforts to provide market rate and affordable housing.

  • San Diego Union Tribune: A small city in L.A. ended its legal challenge of a mixed-use development, as Del Mar faces a similar conflict with Seaside Ridge

  • San Diego Union Tribune: Fairgrounds to resume affordable housing negotiations with Del Mar

  • Voice of San Diego: Del Mar Housing Project Offers Key Test of Untested State Housing Law | Voice of San Diego

  • Fox: Del Mar Fairgrounds affordable housing proposal questioned by developer

  • CBS: Del Mar could see affordable housing with Seaside Ridge project

  • KPBS: Del Mar could see affordable housing along coastal bluffs

  • YIMBY Democrats Endorse Seaside Ridge

  • Coast News : Seaside Ridge housing project proposed for Del Mar’s north bluff

  • San Diego Union Tribune: Proposed Del Mar development would bring 259 new apartments to ocean bluff

Sadly, the fight against housing is not unique to Del Mar. Other affluent cities are also challenging their housing obligations, so Seaside Ridge will not only help families looking for housing in our region, but also has the potential to set important precedent for housing production in the state! 

  • LA Times: La Cañada Flintridge must process ‘builder’s remedy’ affordable-housing plan, court rules

  • San Francisco Chronicle: This wealthy California city just flirted with bankruptcy to avoid new housing

  • LA Times: Thousands of apartments may come to Santa Monica, other wealthy cities under little-known law

  • NBC: California beach community fights over low-income housing

  • Voice of OC: Surf City Cans Housing Plan, Sets Up Another Legal Fight With Sacramento

Lawsuit Coverage

After years of thwarted efforts, the Seaside Ridge property owner made the difficult decision to sue the city of Del Mar in February 2024. We sincerely believe that each jurisdiction must do its part as required by state law.

Click on any of the media links below to learn more.

  • ABC 10: Train track disagreement derails affordable housing plans in Del Mar

  • Voice of San Diego: Fairgrounds Suspends Affordable Housing Talks with City of Del Mar

  • San Diego Union-Tribune: State housing agency says Del Mar still must upzone bluffside properties if fairgrounds plan fails

  • Coast News: An LA Court Sided with Developers on an Untested Housing Law. What That Could Mean for Del Mar.

  • Voice of San Diego: Del Mar’s Resistance to Housing Project Draws Lawsuit

  • Del Mar Times: Applicants behind 259-unit Seaside Ridge housing proposal in Del Mar file lawsuit against the city

  • The Coast News Group: Seaside Ridge developer sues Del Mar for denying application

  • NBC7: Fight over Del Mar beachfront mixed-income housing project heads to court.

  • CBS8: Del Mar property owner files lawsuit to build housing development

  • ABC10: Debate over affordable housing project in Del Mar continues