Tenant rights activists addressed the Santa Barbara City Council to protest "renovictions," whereby landlords evict tenants to make property improvements. These "mass evictions" frequently occur under the guise of renovations, de-regulate rent and resell, said Stanley Tzankov, co-founder of the Santa Barbara Tenants Union.
He argued that "renovictions" are the only legal method to evict tenants in large multifamily apartments. Furthermore, apartment sales in the South Coast area are flourishing, with $141m spent in 2022, the largest total since 2015.
