Housing Affordability: Philanthropic Solutions for Santa Barbara County

Increasing housing affordability for working families is one of the Santa Barbara Foundation’s top priorities to build inclusive and resilient communities. We hope this report will help to develop a shared, cross-sector understanding of our housing affordability challenges and offer actionable opportunities for philanthropy to join other sectors in increasing housing affordability, supply, and stability in the region.

To accomplish this, we convened the Housing Affordability Advisory Committee, comprised of more than 40 cross-sector housing leaders, and then gathered additional input from more than 80 elected, government, business, nonprofit, philanthropic, and nonprofit leaders that reflect the geographic, demographic, and socioeconomic diversity of the county.

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