Wayne Mellinger: Students Without Rooms in Paradise

Wayne Mellinger: Students Without Rooms in Paradise

In Santa Barbara County, we often speak about housing through the language of economics: vacancy rates, zoning battles, development plans, affordability indexes and market pressures. But sometimes the real meaning of a housing crisis becomes visible through something smaller and more intimate — where a student sleeps at night before taking an exam the next morning. A recent research report by five UC Santa Barbara sociology students — Cassandra …