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70% Poverty Rate? Mission Accomplished!

By Andy Caldwell

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Santa Barbara Current
Apr 27, 2025
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County supervisors have a very bad habit of looking through the wrong end of a telescope. Or, as Groucho Marx would have put it, “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” In no situation has this been truer than in government’s approach to so-called “affordable housin…

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