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Site Summary:
Santa Barbara, by way of City ordinance, forbids any residential hall housing within the City of Santa Barbara.
The nearest such zone is 12 miles away in Isla Vista. The distance, as well as the general environment of Isla Vista
is undesirable to many families.
Santa Barbara Student Housing is a collection of single family homes which are operated as small shared
room dorms, within walking distance to SBCC. The homes are separated for boys or girls, and all housing costs
and bi-weekly services are included ( not all residential hall services can be reproduced; food services are limited
for instance ).
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SBSH Benefits:
- Room mate housing without the 'group commitment'. If one moves out your not left 'holding the bag'
on greater expenses.
- Housing is shared room occupancy with ample common areas, not unlike university dorm housing. Good
friendships form among your roommate and your housemates.
- Commitment is for 1 school year, so our housing can be used to enter S.B., live with and make good
friends and then get to know the area for new housing the second year perhaps. NO SINGLE OR PARTIAL SEMESTERS.
- Includes all furniture, all utilities, all cable and fast wireless
ethernet internet.
- Includes all kitchen gear and disposables; plates, cups, bowls, utensils ( please see restrictions on the Begin Here page ).
- Includes stocking of apples, oranges and bananas, kept stocked on the cleaning visits. There are
good snacks on hand after each cleaning visit.
- Includes common area cleaning, twice weekly.( restriction comments on Begin Here page; please read! ).
- SBSH housing ( except 'outlying' locations ) is close to campus so you can walk
or bike in easily.
$775.00 mo. $200 mo summer reserves.
Elise is $895 w $300 reserves as an upgrade for girls
Victoria and Castillo are $695 ( single rooms $795 ) w $200 reserves.
The goal of our housing is to eliminate the pitfalls of students renting housing, where a room
in a house turns out to be in a house of slobs. Where groups form only to fall apart later, at greater expense to those left.
And to offer this in an ideal location to campus.
Details,
Although most of the other higher educational facilities within the greater Santa Barbara area have provisions
for housing their students, SBCC does not possess any housing for their up to 17,000 annual students. Making
things even harder, many landlords refuse student housing for fears of heavy property use and damages, long distance collections,
noise complaints and other troubles associated with some younger students. If you are able to find housing close to campus,
the prices of empty apartments run from 1050 for a studio, 12-1400 for 1 bedroom and 14-1800 for 2 bedrooms. You then need
utilities ( dont forget ethernet/ cable at $110 per month!! ), furniture and finally, do you want to start out alone in Santa
Barbara? Thinking of joining up for roomates? Formed groups almost always fall apart with others left shouldering
the costs or scurrying to find new roomates, sometimes several times in one semester. We see these individuals come
and go all the time, but this is not a factor with SBStudent Housing. Your account is just for your one student.
Please go to the column to the right to keep going
Use the form below for any questions or inquiries of availability you have. We answer several times daily.
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Using SBStudent Housing, we have several housing options to try and match with your student. All locations
are purposely within walking distance of campus. And this brings us to the last but not least reason
for our housing in Santa Barbara. Its in Santa Barbara ! !
Isla Vista ( the only district where big dorms are zoned ) is 12 miles from SBCC and is the housing for the 4th largest
party campus is the USA; UCSB. It is the most densely populated square mile in America, and it's the place where you walk
down DP ( Del Playa Blvd. ) with your party, or kegger cup, and walk from party to party til dawn. Most students go out
there, some from time to time and some regularly, but wouldn't you rather live 4-6 blocks from school and 12 miles from the
party, than 12 miles from school and an hour long bus ride from campus?
They will rent to SBCC students in Isla Vista, but there are several problems with living in Isla Vista and attending
SBCC. For the 17,ooo SBCC students, there are only 2,200 parking spaces on campus. The SBCC offices muse that their parking
permit should be renamed a 'hunting permit'. Most trips to campus involve staking out a parking loop and waiting, usually
in a line, for a space to open.
The fastest way to campus is to walk or take the 3-6 minute bus ride from one of our properties. Its
a long bus ride from Isla Vista. And, while there is less party for students in Santa Barbara ( we consider this a positive point
to our alternative housing ) as all the clubs and such have 21 year old drinking restrictions here ( the same laws apply
in Isla Vista, but the many, many private parties don't check, and open container and under age drinking tickets from police
are constant ), there are dozens of great things to do in Santa Barbara downtown. 14 movie screens, many coffee
shops and a great Barnes and Nobles and Borders bookstores, both with excellent cafe's where everyone sits and studies. Ice
cream shops, pool halls, restaurants and really great beaches.
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