homelessness

United Way gets funding to bolster efforts already credited with helping more than 100 families avoid eviction.

The latest numbers show a nearly 16% drop in homelessness in the county from 2024 to 2025.

Cal State Channel Islands getting $1.7 million to beef up homelessness relief program.

More than $16.5 million going to programs in Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo Counties.

Prosecutors say two boys repeatedly kicked 66-year-old woman as she was sleeping in sleeping bag.

Also, the County and the City of Santa Barbara learn they will be getting nearly $8 million dollars in additional state funding to battle the crisis.

County officials waiting for full report, but are hopeful the statistics are a sign efforts to cope with the problem are having an impact.

Project is part of a bigger plan to get people off the streets and into transitional housing with services, and then finding them permanent homes.

Mini-census shows a 9% increase in unhoused people in the county.

Proposal calls for temporarily putting 90 small cabins on county land across from the county government center in Santa Maria.