CityofGoletaSource: City of Goleta
The Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara, in partnership with the County of Santa Barbara and City of Goleta, is pleased to invite members of the community to a virtual meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, February 10 on the proposed permanent supportive housing development project at 6021 Hollister Avenue in Goleta, currently the site of a Super 8 motel. This proposed development would serve to help address the human and societal problem of people experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness.
The purpose of the meeting is to provide information about this proposed housing development and answer questions from the community. To join by Zoom or phone, the information is enclosed below and posted at www.hasbarco.org. Spanish translation will be available. For those unable to attend, a video of the meeting will be available on the partner agency websites.
Meeting Details
6 p.m. Thursday, February 10
Join Zoom Meeting: https://bit.ly/3KISYLv or by phone: (669) 900-6833
Meeting ID: 821 8574 1781 – Passcode: 031561
The Super 8 housing development project is proposed to include 59 permanent supportive housing units for people experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness. One unit will house an onsite property manager, plus five existing units will be converted to support community space and a robust offering of services.
If grant funding is approved, more than $16 million of the approximately $20 million total project cost would be awarded through the State of California Homekey 2.0 Program. An additional $2 million is expected from the state for rental subsidy and operating costs. Generous additional funding has been reserved for this development by the County of Santa Barbara and City of Goleta. Under recent State law (AB 140 and AB 2162), supportive housing projects funded through the Homekey program are automatically deemed consistent and in conformity with local General Plan and zoning requirements and allowed by right as a permitted use.
ABOUT HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA (HASBARCO)
The Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara was formed in 1941 by Resolution of the County Board of Supervisors. The Board appoints the Housing Authority’ seven-member Board of Commissioners, although it operates as a stand-alone public agency. In furtherance of its mission, the Housing Authority has an associated 501c3 nonprofit, Surf Development Company. HASBARCO currently owns and manages more than 1,450 affordable rental housing units in Santa Barbara County, including six permanent supportive housing developments. The Housing Authority also administers the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program and other types of rental assistance. For more information, go to www.hasbarco.org/.
ABOUT COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT, HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
Housing and Community Development is a division of the County of Santa Barbara Community Services Department that utilizes federal, state, and local funding to provide a variety of public service programs and public facility projects including Affordable Housing, Grants Administration, and Redevelopment Successor Agency Housing Fund activities. For information about the County Housing and Community Development Division of the Community Services Department, go to www.countyofsb.org/housing.
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This is not going to be a permanent solution.
I am avoiding a lot of areas because of being harassed, by the homeless.
Goleta, now has just as many as downtown..
They bus out to Ralphs, Fairview, go back on the bus by the Shell Station, at night.
I wish there was a solution…but they don’t want help…
Come on go do something creative like look at the newspaper article about the city putting homeless in the hotel -didn’t work out pretend like it’s your money not our money That you’re experimenting with
How about requiring sobriety in exchange for housing? The Housing Authority doesn’t want to do that but the City of Goleta should force that condition. I don’t have problems with giving a hand up but if an individual won’t take the initiative to get clean and sober then he’s just looking for a hand out and, as anyone who’s been associated with substance abusers knows, that’s the worst thing that you can do. For drug abusers, not only will you condemn that individual to a life of drug abuse but you’ll put out an invitation for all the drug pushers to come to Goleta.
Will be a beautiful first and last impression for visitors using the airport!!
I believe the decision has already been made, the meting is for show.
Yep and yep. The “public meeting theatre” is doing more to make folks disaffected from their local democracies than the bureaucrats realize.
Usually their intentions are good (note, I said usually) and may even be short-term optimal for what they think will be best for the community. But long-term it does very real harm.
$20 million total project cost divided by 59 vagrants? If it were 60 the math is $333,333.33 each. Is anyone really OK with that? YOUR tax dollars being wasted.
There are plenty of people who are sober that need help and assistance in getting themselves back on their feet. Those are the people who should be targeted for our public housing dollars. You mentioned AA and Alanon which do very good work and you should know that they say that the worst thing that you should do for an addict is to enable him/her to continue their lifestyle. Let’s do the job right and NOT enable those who refuse to do the heavy lifting themselves.
Gee 1:57 PM, what a brilliant idea. I can’t imagine why others have not thought of it? Wow again. All we have to do is require sobriety. AA, Alanon and other private and public groups working with addiction should take notice of your astuteness.
Liars and statistics. The amount of money being proposed will not only serve the first 59 but an ongoing process along with other resources noted in the article. I know actually engaging in honest factual debate is not as exciting as just sending out bazooka shots but it would make things more beneficial to the community trying to decide how to cope with a social problem.