Current City-Invested partners who are each contributing to getting people housed include:

• City Net – Two dedicated full-time staff meeting with homeless people on the streets and in encampments.
• Santa Barbara Alliance for Community Transformation – SBACT – Since 2022, SBACT has helped to coordinate all the different partners, agencies, and stakeholders in a weekly meeting that strategizes in real-time how to end homelessness for people. In 2023, they opened a Neighborhood Navigation Center at a local church to provide a gathering place where service providers and people experiencing homelessness can come together.
• New Beginnings Safe Parking – Provides overnight, staffed parking lots with restrooms for people living in their vehicles. They also provide outreach to people living in vehicles on the streets to help them find the Safe Parking Program.
• PATH Interim Housing – PATH holds two beds for Goleta residents, provides them with case management and housing navigation as they transition to stable, permanent housing.
• Hedges House of Hope (Good Samaritan Shelter) – Goleta reserves four beds for Goleta residents in a small communal living setting where people receive referrals to alcohol and drug treatment, mental health services, housing navigation and placement.
• Buena Tierra Permanent Supportive Housing – in 2024, the Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara (HASBARCO) refurbished the Super 8 Motel at the corner of Hollister and Fairview into 60 permanent housing units with intensive case management for residents. Once someone moves in, they are no longer homeless! The programs there are meant to help people stabilize their lives and maintain their housing. Services are provided by Good Samaritan Shelter and other partners. In 2022, the City of Goleta contributed $400,000 in a one-time grant to this project to help the County Housing Authority
• Rental Housing Mediation Program – In order to PREVENT people from becoming homeless, people need to avoid being evicted and keeping their housing. This program run by the City of Santa Barbara for the whole South Coast of Santa Barbara helps landlords and tenants find constructive solutions to hopefully maintain people’s tenancy.
• California Department of Social Services Housing and Disability Advocacy Program - The Housing and Disability Advocacy Program (HDAP) was established in 2016 to assist people experiencing or at risk of homelessness who are likely eligible for disability benefits by providing advocacy for disability benefits as well as housing supports.