Living is Santa Barbara often requires unlimited ingenuity.  Housing, our biggest challenge, leads to the most creative solutions.  If you ever read about people living in a hollow tree or in a shoe, figure it must have happened here.  We hope your optimist, ingenuity and the websites below will help. 

 The Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara lets you search over 2300 Health, Human, and Community Services throughout the County.  Or call 2-1-1 for non-emergency information and referral, crisis intervention, and suicide prevention. 

Santa Barbara County Affordable Housing Program 

The Project for Financial Independence provides personal financial guidance to members of the public who cannot afford a financial advisor, or who are facing an immediate or unusual financial need.

California Food Stamp Programs

Simplify! The Simple Living Network has been providing resources, tools, examples and contacts for conscious, simple, healthy living.  See also the resources at The Simplicity Forum.

Prosper.com offers people to people borrowing

Erideshare.com has carpooling listings for Santa Barbara. So does the rideshare section of Craiglist