On Friday, February 7, 2025, the Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara (HACSB) celebrated the official groundbreaking of the Bella Vista affordable housing project. The Bella Vista development is located at 200 N. La Cumbre Rd in Santa Barbara.
The 48-unit development will provide much-needed affordable housing for families with low and very low incomes. The project will feature a two and three-story building, with 48 apartments constructed on top of a podium.
The development will also include a semi-subterranean garage with 58 parking spaces for the tenants and a 10 space surface parking lot for the guests accessed off Via Lucero.
In addition to the housing units, Bella Vista will also include a community room, on-site laundry facilities, a lobby, and expansive courtyard spaces for residents to enjoy.
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Nice to see that my childhood torture chamber, the orthodontist’s office, is gone! I fully support this replacement.
haha Dr Bohn. Me too
Great project to help 48 families that need help.
But it’s another commercial property off the property tax rolls and onto the public property, no-tax, rolls. That in addition to the $51 million + this is going to cost to house 48 families.
It’s too bad that we can’t come up with a solution that doesn’t cost te tax payers so much.
Housing them like this costs a lot less to the taxpayer in the long run than not housing them.
Not if we keep doing what we’re doing and it keeps spiraling upward. You can’t keep building homeless hotels at the expense of everyone else. If you think that’s a good long term plan, I’ve got a bridge to sell ya.
We already know you don’t believe in data. No need to keep reminding us.
Well then, let’s see all that “data” that shows how efficient and successful CA has been on taxpayer spending for the homeless. How are we doing?
California has just started trying it on a larger scale, but studies of programs in several other states show that affordable housing, and especially housing for those who are homeless, is much more economical than leaving them in the bushes or forcing them into long commutes. Get out of your myopic little bubble of hate.
References you won’t consult, because they’re not in the con bubble:
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/114852
https://coloradobiz.com/the-economics-of-homelessness/
https://economicrt.org/publication/where-we-sleep/
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2023/08/22/how-housing-costs-drive-levels-of-homelessness
https://equitablegrowth.org/the-economic-impact-of-housing-insecurity-in-the-united-states/
https://www.americansecurityproject.org/impact-homelessness-economic-competitiveness/
https://community.solutions/research-posts/the-costs-and-harms-of-homelessness/#:~:text=Culhane%20and%20An%20(2021)%20found,housing%20to%20a%20single%20family.
Wow, so none of that has anything to do with our town. Anyone can google rando stuff. We are local.
Try thinking a little before throwing out a backpedal.
Everywhere it’s been tried, providing housing has worked.