https://guidetoucsbhousing.org 2025-10-30 daily 1.0 https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/image61.png https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/image18.png https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/slideshow01-f5814b44.jpg Untitled https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/slideshow01-adac8336.jpg Untitled https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/image25.jpg https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/image74.png https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/slideshow06-44a734b4.jpg Untitled https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/slideshow06-cda00163.jpg Untitled https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/slideshow07-7a0e435b.jpg Untitled https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/slideshow04-6b33c0aa.jpg Untitled https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/slideshow04-008f4be7.jpg Untitled https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/slideshow04-d14310ed.jpg Untitled https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/image02.png https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery27/bdce127e.jpg Santa Barbara County plans to use settlement from a housing dispute with UCSB to fund improvement projects and programs in Isla Vista, including building a permanent restroom along Del Playa Drive in an effort to help prevent cliff falls. (Rebecca Caraway) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery21/ade9a86a.jpg The Santa Barbara Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion on Tuesday that sends the proposed Isla Vista Rental Housing Inspection Pilot Program to its next steps, directing staff to create a plan for the program... https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery28/803b1918.jpg Santa Barbara County Planning Commission chair Laura Bridley describes the proposed Isla Vista housing project as "a very difficult case for me to approve" and suggests that it go the county Board of Architectural Review. (Rebecca Caraway / Noozhawk photo https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery26/88fef4ef.png Isla Vista Community Services District https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery31/03e816a8.jpg UC Santa Barbara purchased three properties in downtown Santa Barbara, including a 80-unit apartment complex on East Gutierrez Street. (Soltara Apartments) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery33/cabdd595.jpg (Courtesy) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery29/9ca6dbf7.jpg The San Benito student housing project at UC Santa Barbara will consist of seven new residential and support buildings. It's expected to be finished by fall 2027 (Courtesy) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery34/9056e081.jpg San Benito Student Housing’s West Lawn is designed to host a variety of uses. (SOM/Mithun) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery36/083f7a97.png Isla Vista Community Services District https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery41/6b100c0f.jpg Councilmember Wendy Santamaria pushing for stronger protections against evictions. She said. "There are people’s lives — not just money — at risk here.” (Ingrid Bostrom) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery38/427cad67.jpg About 87% of Isla Vista residents are renters. (Rebecca Caraway / Noozhawk photo) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery35/5a5ce94b.jpg UC Regents recently approved a financing method for Ocean Road, a nearly 20 year-old housing project which would add 540 units for faculty and staff. (UC Regents) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery40/128030d7.jpg Isla Vista property owners are fighting back against Santa Barbara County’s Isla Vista rental housing inspection program. (Rebecca Caraway / Noozhawk photo) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery46/2c11ef30.jpg (bluestork // Shutterstock) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery47/412721b8.jpg [Rental Inspection Program]{#F3A245} Passed In Isla Vista https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery47/aaaf581c.jpg \n https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery54/0ce1789d.jpg Construction is underway on the San Benito housing project, which is set to add 2,224 beds in seven apartment-style buildings for UCSB students. (Rebecca Caraway / Noozhawk photo) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery55/412721b8.jpg New Campus Housing:\n[San Benito]{#F3A245} https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery55/7db317a6.jpg \n https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery50/104731ba.jpg (UC Santa Barbara) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery52/5b7cb14b.jpg “Some Isla Vista landlords would rather spend their profits on litigation than on maintaining safe, livable homes,” Supervisor Laura Capps said of I.V. landlord’s preliminary injunction to stop the county’s pilot rental inspection program. (SB County) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery43/8b3f7ee1.jpg SBSHC offers affordable student housing for 95 students in their multiple themed houses and apartments. (Sara Stevens / Daily Nexus) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery39/9d31b287.jpg UCSB bought the empty lot across the street from the Charles T. Munger Physics Residence to build new housing graduate students, postdocs, and researchers. (Rebecca Caraway / Noozhawk photo) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery30/82028d04.jpg A rendering of the updated proposed development on Isla Vista’s Sueno Road (Courtesy) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery37/e3cf0951.jpg A single-family home sits on the approximately 0.65-acre lot on Isla Vista's Sueno Road where developer Ed St. George has proposed a trio of three-story apartment buildings. (Christina McDermott) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery32/5e28f99c.jpg (Lauren Marnel Shores / UCSB) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery23/a77e4813.jpg A high-resolution rendered site plan for the San Benito student residential community (© SOM | Mithun) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery25/6d7c6bf3.jpg UCSB announced plans to construct new student housing, dubbed San Benito Housing, following the dissolution of the Munger Hall housing project. (UCSB) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/image01.png https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery22/bdce127e.jpg Santa Barbara County plans to use settlement from a housing dispute with UCSB to fund improvement projects and programs in Isla Vista, including building a permanent restroom along Del Playa Drive in an effort to help prevent cliff falls. (Rebecca Caraway) https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery24/3309408e.jpg A developer from Los Angeles County wants to build 255 apartments on a site near Santa Barbara's Old Mission. 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UCSC student Michael Chin lives in a trailer to be close to campus. https://guidetoucsbhousing.org/assets/images/gallery09/35e58aac.jpg Image Credit: KCRW. UC Berkeley has been criticized for enrollment increases said to exacerbate the unhoused crisis.