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Tenants and advocates press Santa Barbara council for post-remodel rent caps amid wave of renoviction complaints
Summary
Multiple Bath Street tenants and tenant-advocacy groups told the City Council that renovictions and buyer-driven displacement have forced long-term residents from rental housing and urged adoption of post-remodel rent caps, an eviction moratorium and an expedited rent-freeze to protect local workforce and families affected by recent fires in Los
Dozens of residents and tenant advocates used the Santa Barbara City Council’s Jan. 28 public comment period to describe a pattern of alleged “renovictions” and harassment at multiple rental properties—most prominently a cluster on Upper Bath Street and the 215 Bath complex—and to urge immediate local action.
Speakers described similar accounts: new owners or out-of-town management declining to cash rent checks, serving eviction notices (which some tenants said were procedurally flawed), offer buy-outs, carrying out long delays in maintenance, and replacing affordable long-term tenants with higher-rent occupants or short-term student beds.…
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