Despite gains in building low-income and higher-income housing, Santa Barbara County is seeing a lack of development for moderately priced units, leaders shared at the Santa Barbara Housing Conference on Thursday.
The conference, hosted by the Coastal Housing Coalition, invited advocates, developers and local officials to hear how the county plans to achieve its goal of adding 15,000 more housing units by 2031.
The state requires counties and cities to develop plans to build thousands of new units to address housing shortages…