The Miramar Resort Hopes to Add More Shops, Restaurants, and Employee Housing
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Nobody disputed the data. Poverty is real, housing costs are crushing, and median incomes are a joke relative to what it costs to live here.… — Bill
https://datausa.io/profile/geo/santa-barbara-ca/ According to the 2020 census, the city of SB has a poverty level of 14%. 20% of the population were foreign born. Median incomes… — Sam Tababa
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There's a legitimate grievance about Santa Barbara's economic policy buried in here, but it's fatally undermined by bigotry. Calling the city's problems a result of… — Bill
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Woah. “Santa Barbara is a city full of low income immigrants, low income students and multi generational mediocrity” That’s not just a sentence that’s some… — Mary
Not just support workers. Where are the future DDS's, MD's and nurses going to live? Some may take over Mom or Dad's practices, but the… — Judy's Older Brother
There’s no shortage of thoughtful perspectives on what State Street should become—and that’s a good thing. We’re clearly still in a period of recovery and… — Vince Coronado
Local businesses depend on workers that commute from Lompoc or Oxnard or even further. This results in exhausted commuters working in support positions that often… — James Rolfe DDS
Why weren't those businesses snapping up properties in 2017, 2018 and 2019 when there was article after article about the retail apocalypse and record low… — Rich