Tag archives: Elizabeth Funk

Homelessness Across the State & In Our Backyard: Part 1
By Jeff Giordano   |   June 24, 2025

On June 10 our Community Service Department (CSD) provided the Board of Supervisors with their Annual Homelessness Update. Last year I focused exclusively on CSD’s very solid and data-driven work, but this year I thought I would widen the aperture with a two-part article that looked just a bit at state and city homelessness as […]

Dignity Moves Opens 32 “Tiny Homes” in Santa Barbara
By Sharon Byrne   |   June 21, 2022

Hands Across Montecito co-founder Kathryn Washburn got a call from Dignity Moves a couple of weeks ago, asking if she’d support the new tiny homes in downtown Santa Barbara. As a strong member on the Hands Across Montecito team that has achieved great results in helping people leave homelessness, Kath wasn’t sure about this. She […]