Three UCLA students are pushing for housing reform in Westwood.
Undergraduate Students Association Council General Representative Brett Berndt, USAC Student Housing Liaison Gabriella Llaneta and fourth-year political science student Henry Houser created UCLA’s chapter of the Student Homes Coalition, a statewide organization dedicated to advocating for better student housing.

Three miles of Santa Monica Boulevard and Westwood Boulevard closed to cars Sunday, creating a temporary park for cyclists and pedestrians.
CicLAvia – a nonprofit that temporarily closes streets to cars across the city – hosted the event.

Long-awaited sidewalk repairs are coming to Westwood this year, according to documents from the Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering.
The city will repair sidewalks in areas in Westwood, including parts of Veteran Avenue, Levering Avenue, Landfair Avenue and Gayley Avenue, according to a pending request document from the bureau.

LAPD received a report of two masked people breaking into a home on Westholme Avenue shortly after midnight Tuesday.
Multiple police vehicles responded to the break-in, which occurred less than three blocks from campus at 12:09 a.m.

The North Westwood Neighborhood Council passed a community impact statement calling on UCLA to designate itself as a sanctuary campus at its April meeting.
The council, which represents UCLA and Westwood Village, meets on the first Wednesday of every month at UCLA’s Weyburn Terrace.

Families gathered in Broxton Plaza on Saturday for the Big Play Date – an event featuring face painting, story reading, a petting zoo and other children’s activities.

This post was updated April 12 at 9:32 p.m.
Together, Black and Hispanic people make up less than a quarter of Westwood’s population – and 27.5% of UCLA’s student body – yet more than half of the people UCPD stopped between July 2024 and July 2025 were reported to be those ethnicities.