Homeless Camp Near Fairview?

Nope. Santa Barbara and Goleta do nothing about the persistent issues that transients create. Case in point: the numerous incidents of transients harassing people downtown, including a recent run in with Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf employees. I used to work on State St. and it was not uncommon to see homeless people using the sidewalks as toilets. The camps along the sides of the highways are small potatoes, apparently. It's very frustrating.

Don’t worry, they’ll be moving to carillo st soon.

Santa Barbara city and non-profits, in particular, send out messages to the world telling them how they welcome and provide for transients. What do you expect to happen?

It CalTrans property on one side and the Southern Pacific Railroad on the other- Goleta has nothing to do with it.

where are the homeless people supposed to go..we have thousands more now after the fires esp. the camp fire and the fire outside Redding and the Santa Rosa fire last year and no housing stock. There are 100s of thousands of people living without shelter..and not all of them are dirt bags..there are respectable people out there too.... do the mentally ill deserve to be treated with disdain and disgust when there is so little help for them. WE need more places like tiny homes , cabins that also have comunal showers and laundrys and kitchens. Seattle has a good working model...we just need more and we need to change our ides and attitudes. When we demonize others less fortunate than ourselves we are looking at a reflection of ourselves. are we part of the solution or part of the problem. The homeless population problem is not going to simply dissapear just because we don't like it.
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Tiny Cabins Safe Harbor

Take a ride on the Amtrak and see just how many camps there are along the rail road right of way. Northbound they don't stop until Winchester canyon.

I too find the homeless encampments and transients downtown to be a nuisance, not to mention a public health hazard. But where are they supposed to go? I mean, you can oust them, get rid of them, whatever - but they don't actually disappear. They still exist. They are still homeless. They don't cease to be a "problem". And if you don't have a home, where are you going to pee?

I reported this encampment via the online complaint system. That was after going by on two separate occasions and seeing dogs near the highway. They were not on leash and you could see the tents tucked away under the bushes. Looks like nothing has been done. The comment about what you see from the train is true. I just can't imagine anyone in the area tourism business not trying to get something done, not to mention the health hazard to the homeless living in these conditions. I read that Lompoc got rid of their homeless encampments in the riverbed, to the tune of close to $1 million. Why can't SB/Goleta/Montecito do the same? Why do people who pay premium to own a home in these areas accept the homeless taking over their shopping areas and public spaces.

Is this possible, file a written complaint with zoning? Is the area zoned for camping? Do the campers have adequate toilets, fire hazards, parking, etc. Also, be sure to call police/sheriff and report the camping and INSIST on a Case Number for your complaint. Without a case number, your complaint never happened. Write to county supervisors giving the case number(s) and what you have witnessed.
When your house burns down because of the so-called "campfires" --- actually heating their drugs, you can sue the county or city, keep your proof of a pattern of your reporting danger. Don't be passive. You can be the change you want.

If transients had the ability to move here, they have the ability to move on. That is where and how they go.

Just saw them clearing a camp out on the Mission St. southbound onramp. Yes, more needs to be done, but thought I would mention it, as I saw this post before I left for lunch.

A-1542750587 - sB wants homeless: they create jobs and job security for government and non-profit workers - one in the same. We will build free tiny homeless villages to attract more homeless . Flyers are being distributed all over SoCal to come here. Other beach communities do not have a homeless problem because they don’t want them. These beach communities participate in regional solutions. Move if you don’t like homeless encampments. SB Police have a City Council stand down Order. They know their right is to camp on any public sidewalk including in front of your house. 9th Circuit, Dems, Republicans like jobs for college grades. Homeless are godsends to SB.

We need similar legislation if not this problem is sure to get much worse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/10/17/hungary-bans-homeless-people-living-public-spaces-law-described-cruel-by-un/?utm_term=.61aea0f42d65

The camp also presents problems with local telecommunication buildings nearby.
The smoke can harm the equipment, and also cause a false alarm/ fire situation internally.
This is a very real issue that needs to be addressed, any smoke ingested into any of these buildings, simulates a real fire scenario inside the building, and fire suppression systems don’t know the difference between them.

Yeah that smoke is very bad for the tele technology in the area. I’ll spend the rest of the evening making up other infrastructure this eye sore effects

I'm sorry, I grew up here and there are three, if not four separate groups. There are those new vagabonds that travel and ask for $$. There are groups that happily live in homes and pose as individuals, families with children and make up to $300/hour with hand outs. There are those with mental issues, who are not asking the general public to help, but just carrying on. And there are those that are truly homeless, but still working, living out of vehicles/camping and just trying to make it work. You can't just lump them into one group. Tiny houses for those who are just trying to slug it out and exist? Could work. For the ones that need mental health assistance... Could work. For the others? Nope. Expletives to them. It's not one topic. It's many topics.

Is this taking place because the suburban but unincorporated area has become a dumping ground for those displaced downtown? Seeing many more. Is the upswing in vandalism/theft/messy public restrooms or ones requiring keys and increased litterin connected?

The headline poses the correct question: What will Goleta do about the homeless among its people? Goleta has dodged and ignored and lied about the issue since it became a city. It has no facilities or commitment to help the homeless. It hopes that others such as the city of Santa Barbara and the state of California will do the work. Goleta wants to be unburdened by both the moral duty to help and the perception that anyone from Goleta could be in need. What hypocrisy and greed.

A big part of the plan calls for the temporary installation of no fewer than 40 “tiny homes” ​— ​commonly known as “sheds with beds” ​— ​at the commuter parking lot by Castillo and Carrillo streets. This is where many of the 50 most chronic and expensive repeat customers who show up at Cottage Hospital’s emergency rooms and the Santa Barbara County Jail will live, we are told, but on a strictly transitional, supervised, temporary, and managed basis. These are the so-called Million-Dollar Murrays and Frequent Flyers who have been giving cops and social service providers fits. By placing them indoors in a supervised setting — with two security guards 24/7 and offices for a city cop — the theory goes, they can be more cheaply and efficiently bombarded with the array of mental-health, detox, health-care, and social services needed to turn their lives around. This is known in the lingo as the “Housing First” model.
-SB Independent

There's an even bigger one by the railroad tracks in Ellwood .

For an insightful look at the seeds of the problem and how they were sown, the New York Times published a revealing look on October 30, 1984 at how that situation developed. Google "How Release of Mental Patients Began." Highly informative.