Grand Jury Slams Santa Barbara on Homelessness and Housing
“The City Council needs a change in vision,” states housing report.
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“The City Council needs a change in vision,” states housing report.
Seven feet higher, 20 percent affordable, and Spanish-colonial architecture instead of boxy modern newly imagined for Santa Barbara’s Eastside.
City approves $2 million loan for four-story, 29-unit homeless housing project.
Commercial landlords protest it’s an unconstitutional taking, council points to closed stores.
Short-term vacation rental owner James Fenkner slammed City Council over ordinance “end run.”
Landlords and tenant rights advocates argue what landlords must pay tenants they evict without just cause.
Earthquake Brace and Bolt Program offers California homeowners money to retrofit their houses.
Santa Barbara’s State Senator dismissed SB 50 as a “one-size-fits-all approach to a really complicated problem.”
Mission Canyon residents are urging Santa Barbara City Council to revoke Accessory Dwelling Units permits issued to their neighbor.
The city councilmember said the $5,250-a-month apartments don’t meet the needs of the missing
middle.