For all of you interested in understanding the housing crisis in California, the thread below is worth both your time and your thoughtful consideration. I grew up in Santa Barbara, a beautiful, developed community on the Central Coast. I get asked all the time why I don’t still live there, and it’s a simple answer: they refused for decades to build housing across the region which made housing absurdly expensive, eventually the big employers like Delco (GM) and Raytheon left for other places, and most normal people can’t get a job that pays them enough to live anywhere near the city limits of Santa Barbara or Goleta. My mom even had to leave after my dad died suddenly because the cost of living there was just too expensive. The fact of the matter is that our policies are responsible for the housing crisis - we did this to ourselves - and we need to change our laws to fix it.
For all of you interested in understanding the housing crisis in California, the thread below is worth both your time and your thoughtful consideration. I grew up in Santa Barbara, a beautiful, developed community on the Central Coast. I get asked all the time why I don’t still live there, and it’s a simple answer: they refused for decades to build housing across the region which made housing absurdly expensive, eventually the big employers like Delco (GM) and Raytheon left for other places, and most normal people can’t get a job that pays them enough to live anywhere near the city limits of Santa Barbara or Goleta. My mom even had to leave after my dad died suddenly because the cost of living there was just too expensive. The fact of the matter is that our policies are responsible for the housing crisis - we did this to ourselves - and we need to change our laws to fix it.
@kdlaw Portland has done a lot to streamline the ADU process but it is still difficult. I wanted to turn my dilapidated garage into an ADU for my mom. I ultimately had to drop the process bc it became prohibitively expensive and its approval was uncertain.