 | Westwood. Students may find rooms to rent in the fashionable area east of campus, or in the apartments along Hilgard Avenue. However, the area west of campus is dense with apartments. The campus evening vans and security escort program operate in this area. Expect high rents, though sharing helps keep costs down. Street parking is hard to find.
Aside from campus, the nearest services are in Westwood Village, just south of campus. There are lots of restaurants and movies, clothing, drug and convenience stores (Breadstiks has a deli and produce section).
No laundromats. The nearest supermarket is conveniently located on Le Conte Avenue and there is a second
at Westwood and Ohio; a laundromat is on Westwood just south of Santa Monica Boulevard.
Apartments south of Wilshire are close to campus and the Lot 32 campus bus. Many students find rooms to rent east of Westwood Boulevard, but they may not be close to buses that run to campus. |
| West Los Angeles. West LA extends south of Westwood and west of the 405 Freeway (one and a half to five miles from campus). Much of this area is within walking or biking distance from campus. East of the 405, students may find rooms to rent. Apartments are clustered near Santa Monica and Olympic Boulevards.
The area west of the 405 is popular with students. It has many small apartments, slightly less expensive than those in Westwood, and good bus access to campus along Wilshire and Santa Monica Boulevard.
Supermarkets, laundromats and restaurants line these streets as well. The Nuart Theater and The Royal - both on Santa Monica Boulevard - show foreign, classic, new, and cult films. |
| Rancho Park. Rancho Park is a residential area south of West LA (about three miles south of campus), where many students find rooms, and sometimes houses, to rent. Nearness to Westwood Boulevard, shopping, ethnic restaurants, and buslines to campus are pluses.
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| Brentwood. Brentwood is two miles west of campus, separated from it by the Brentwood VA complex and the 405 Freeway. You might find rooms or guest houses in the countrylike roads in the northern section of Brentwood, but most apartments are in the triangle bordered by Wilshire, San Vicente Boulevard and Bundy. This area has been hard hit by condo conversions, but there are still many apartments to rent or share. The main street in Brentwood is San Vicente Boulevard. Buses to campus are on Wilshire, Montana and Sunset Boulevard. Many students bike to campus. |
| Bel Air. President Reagan retired to this exclusive neighborhood directly north of campus, but there's not much here for students. There is no bus service; minimal shopping is available on Roscomare near Mulholland, or on Beverly Glen Boulevard. On the other hand, if you do find a room in a Bel Air house near UCLA, you will be very close to campus. |
| Santa Monica. Not only is this incorporated beach city near campus (four to seven miles), but it has the beach, great parks, good libraries and schools, buses to campus, clean air and rent
control - the ideal life, it would seem. But low turnover, long waiting lists, condo conversions, stiff competition, and recent proposed changes in the rent control law make finding a place here difficult. Still, there are opportunities to share houses or apartments, or to rent guest houses or rooms. Rental turnover is greater on the south side (Ocean Park) and the inland area off Santa Monica Boulevard than in the exclusive northern part of Santa Monica. |
| Pacific Palisades. West of Brentwood and north of Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades is an upscale community five to six miles from campus. Centered along Sunset Boulevard as it wends its way to the Pacific, most of this neighborhood is in the hills and canyons overlooking the ocean. There are apartment shares and rooms in homes here, as well as bus service to UCLA. This area might be considered hard to get to and isolated by some students, but it is beautiful and near the beach.
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