City Approves $2 Million Loan for Four-Story Homeless Housing Project The City of Santa Barbara okayed a $2 million loan by the Housing Authority for a vacant lot at 116 East Cota Street on which to build a four-story complex of studios for 29 homeless people. | Credit: Courtesy By Nick Welsh Thu Jun 25, 2020 | 4:55pm…

  June 5, 2020 Dear Santa Barbara Community Members: Across the country, citizens are protesting the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless other Black lives senselessly taken in moments of racially driven brutality. These ongoing acts of violence have provoked a historic level of protest, a response to the pervasive injustices…