Tenant Displacement Concerns Surface with 90-Unit Milpas Apartment Project

Tenant Displacement Concerns Surface with 90-Unit Milpas Apartment Project

The Santa Barbara Planning Commission gave support to a 90-unit, four-story apartment project on Santa Barbara’s Eastside. But some Eastside residents, and tenant activists, aren’t happy that eight seniors who currently live on part of the property will need to move out. Emma Hanlon, a member of the Santa Barbara Tenants Union, spoke at Thursday’s Planning Commission meeting and called the project “a displacement event.” “There are lives and gar…