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A 13% drop in the headline price masks a 6.7% rise in per-square-foot pricing, suggesting buyers shifted toward smaller homes this spring.
County supervisors advanced a new ordinance steering newly built homes toward local buyers and workers, while planners previewed sweeping changes to how housing projects get approved without hearings. Homeless services funding also dominated the May 12 agenda.
The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors met on May 12 with a packed housing agenda, advancing a new local-preference housing ordinance, lining up several million dollars in…