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Alexander Stoeber · District 6
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CandidateAlexander Stoeber
Office soughtSanta Barbara City Council, District 6
ElectionNovember 3, 2026
CampaignA Future Here
Primary lineHousing people can afford. Health people can feel. Hope people can build on.
IdentityDistrict 6 renter. Housing professional. Independent local candidate.
Primary issuesHousing delivery, public-safety trust, State Street execution, fiscal honesty, small-business clarity, and accountable City government
CommitteeAlexander Stoeber for City Council 2026
FPPC ID1492934
Campaign websitestoeber4sb.com
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Photography
Campaign headshots and editorial images.
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Campaign marks
A Future Here wordmark system.
The campaign uses Public Sans, Mission Tile, Live Oak, Adobe, and a wordmark—not a monogram. The campaign mark must remain separate from Alexander’s professional branding.
STOEBER
A FUTURE HERE
Primary light-background lockup
Live Oak and Mission Tile on Adobe or white. Use where the mark has generous clear space.
STOEBER
A FUTURE HERE
Reversed dark-background lockup
White, Mission Tile, and Soft Tile on Live Oak or Deep Oak. Do not place on party-color fields.
Approved biographies
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Formal boilerplate · approximately 70 words
Alexander Stoeber is a candidate for Santa Barbara City Council in District 6. A District 6 renter, housing professional, market analyst, and author of the Santa Barbara Brief, he brings a systems-focused approach to housing delivery, public safety, downtown vitality, small-business conditions, permitting, public assets, and city finance. His campaign, A Future Here, is built around housing people can afford, health people can feel, and hope people can build on.
Compact bio · approximately 55 words
Alexander Stoeber is a District 6 renter, housing professional, market analyst, and candidate for Santa Barbara City Council. He is running on A Future Here: Housing. Health. Hope. His priorities include housing delivery, tenant stability and future supply, public-safety trust, a functioning State Street, fiscal honesty, and clear paths for small businesses and local workers.
Medium bio · approximately 120 words
Alexander Stoeber is a candidate for Santa Barbara City Council in District 6 and the author of the Santa Barbara Brief. A District 6 renter and Santa Barbara housing professional, he understands both the pressure residents face and the practical conditions required to deliver more housing.
His campaign, A Future Here, focuses on housing delivery, safe and healthy public spaces, fiscal honesty, downtown execution, and clear paths for local workers and small businesses. Alexander supports tenant stability while opposing rent control as the centerpiece of housing policy. He believes District 6 needs independent local leadership that turns concern into clear action, public responsibility, and measurable results.
Long bio · approximately 270 words
Santa Barbara should remain a place where more people can live, heal, work, grow, serve, build, and belong. That belief is why Alexander Stoeber is running for Santa Barbara City Council in District 6.
Alexander is a District 6 renter, Santa Barbara housing professional, market analyst, and author of the Santa Barbara Brief. His work has placed him inside many of the systems shaping local life: housing costs, land use, permitting, insurance, public assets, small-business conditions, downtown vitality, and the financial pressures facing households and the city.
He has learned that Santa Barbara’s challenges do not exist in isolation. Housing affects the workforce. The workforce affects schools, public safety, local businesses, healthcare, and city services. Downtown conditions affect civic trust and city revenue. Slow permitting raises the cost of homes and delays business openings. Public-space conditions affect people in crisis, residents, visitors, workers, and merchants at the same time.
Alexander is running with an independent, local-function approach. He believes City Council should make complicated systems understandable, decide what matters, assign responsibility, fund the work, and give residents a clear way to measure progress.
His campaign is called A Future Here and is built around three commitments: housing that makes room for local life, health that protects the conditions for local life, and hope that gives people a visible next step. His governing standard is simple: Action. Owner. Cost. Deadline. Result.
Position summary
Housing, Health, and Hope—with fiscal honesty underneath every promise.
These summaries state the campaign position. Follow the linked issue page for fuller language, named actions, measurement, and source notes.
Make room for local life
Housing
Position: Build a full affordability operating plan: more homes where they fit, faster approvals, workforce housing, public land for public value, local rental incentives, fair short-term-rental enforcement, subsidy partnerships, and tenant stability that does not worsen the shortage.
Housing page →
Tenant stability and future supply
Rent control
Position: Tenant stability matters. Future renters matter too. Alexander opposes making rent control the centerpiece because Santa Barbara also needs future supply, maintenance, investment, trust, and housing delivery.
Rent-stabilization page →
Protect the conditions for local life
Health & safety
Position: Safe streets, clean sidewalks, clear public-space standards, strong public safety, crisis care, fair enforcement, and a path from behavioral-health or addiction crisis to stability. Humanity and order belong together.
Health page →
Santa Barbara’s front porch
State Street
Position: Downtown needs an operating plan: safe and usable public space, active storefronts, clear access, regular programming, cleanliness, small-business coordination, and decisions that move on a visible timeline.
State Street page →
Build the paths to local life
Hope & local economy
Position: Create clearer paths to open a business, build a career, recover from crisis, participate in civic life, create culture, and turn local innovation into local opportunity.
Hope page →
Every promise has a fiscal shadow
Fiscal honesty
Position: Protect core services, reserves, and long-term capacity. Every major proposal should identify the cost, funding path, staffing, tradeoffs, accountable owner, deadline, and public benefit.
Fiscal-honesty page →Approved campaign language
Quotable lines.
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“Santa Barbara should remain a place where more people can live, heal, work, grow, serve, build, and belong.”
Campaign promise
“Every public promise should show the action, owner, cost, deadline, and result.”
Governing and accountability
“Tenant stability matters. Future renters matter too. Rent control is not a housing plan.”
Rent stabilization and housing supply
“Humanity and order belong together.”
Public space, safety, and crisis response
“Every public promise has a fiscal shadow.”
Budget and fiscal capacity
“A Future Here is not a partisan coalition. It is a working-city coalition.”
Campaign identity
Interview requests
Topics Alexander is prepared to discuss.
Alexander is available for reported interviews, editorial boards, candidate forums, podcasts, radio, television, community publications, and issue-specific conversations.
01
Housing delivery and affordability
Approvals, workforce housing, missing-middle housing, public land, tenant stability, future supply, local rental incentives, and the practical effects of rent-control policy.
02
State Street and downtown operations
Public-space design, safety, storefront activity, cleanliness, access, programming, parking, city revenue, and accountable decision-making.
03
Public safety, homelessness, and behavioral health
Police trust, crisis care, fair enforcement, shared public-space standards, service partnerships, and the principle that humanity and order belong together.
04
City finance and public capacity
Reserves, recurring costs, staffing, service reliability, public assets, downtown’s fiscal role, and the operating discipline behind new promises.
05
Small business and the local opportunity ladder
Opening timelines, permitting clarity, storefront activation, workforce pathways, local procurement, creativity, and innovation that produces local benefit.
06
Independent local leadership
How a councilmember builds a majority, works within the council-manager system, respects due process, and measures delivery without turning local issues into partisan identity tests.
Host and moderator copy
Approved event introduction.
Approximately 55 words
Alexander Stoeber is a candidate for Santa Barbara City Council in District 6. A District 6 renter, housing professional, and author of the Santa Barbara Brief, he is running on housing delivery, safe public spaces, downtown execution, fiscal honesty, and clear pathways for local workers and small businesses. His campaign is called A Future Here.
Editorial and asset guidance
Keep the campaign identity accurate and separate.
Use
- Alexander Stoeber—not Alex Stoeber.
- Candidate for Santa Barbara City Council, District 6.
- District 6 renter, housing professional, and independent local candidate.
- A Future Here: Housing. Health. Hope.
- The exact committee name and FPPC number when a legal disclosure is needed.
- Campaign photos and wordmarks without distortion or material alteration.
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- That Compass, Stoeber Agency, AbundantSB, or the Santa Barbara Brief has endorsed the campaign.
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- That an approved campaign line was spoken in a particular interview when it was not.
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Photography
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Campaign-finance filings
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Official election information
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Campaign platform and sources
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