The City of Santa Barbara, stressed like so many California communities by unaffordable housing.
Just Build More! It’s the battle cry of the American Housing Industry, as well as their fellow-travellers in the YIMBY1 movement. Relax zoning regulations, allow higher densities, cut back on expensive oversight delays and long-winded impact hearings. Affordable housing will be the result.
A Former Santa Barbara mayor explains why she supported an experiment to give the housing industry the freedom it wanted. Then she recounts some of the dashed expectations produced by the results of that experiment.
Read More in the Santa Barbara Independent: Housing Density Realities
Footnotes
- Yes, In My Back Yard. For more, try: Trendy YIMBY Affordable Housing Activists Are Sheltered In A House Of Straw
