In the debate over rent regulation, Santa Barbara officials often focus on landlords as the driver of rising housing costs. What receives far less attention is the City’s own role in steadily increasing the fixed, unavoidable costs, of operating rental housing.
The data cited here is not anecdotal. It comes directly from a Public Records Act Request (PRA…
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