Santa Barbara’s rent stabilization push raises hard questions about cost, mobility, and long-term outcomes.
Tuesday night’s Santa Barbara City Council vote was framed as compassion. But compassion without outcomes is not a solution—it is a sentiment. By a 4–3 vote, the Council chose to move forward with a rent stabilization framework that expands regulat…
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