More than 200 people are sleeping in their vehicles each night in Goleta — and only about 50 of them are accessing homelessness services.
That gap was a central focus of a virtual public meeting Monday hosted by the City of Goleta and SBACT (Santa Barbara Alliance for Community Transformation), where city leaders outlined both enforcement measures and expanded outreach efforts aimed at addressing the growing number of people living in cars.
When speaking about that 50-to-200 ratio, Chuck Flacks, the City of Goleta’s homelessness services coordinator, said “there could be a variety of reasons.”…