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Meet Alexander Stoeber · Santa Barbara City Council · District 6

Santa Barbara gave me a future. I’m running to make sure it can still do that for others.

I experienced housing instability growing up. Coming to Santa Barbara for UCSB gave me a place to build a life. Now I’m running so more people can still see a future here.

Today I’m a District 6 renter, housing professional, and local market analyst. My campaign, A Future Here, is about housing people can afford, health people can feel, and hope people can build on.

District 6 renter · UCSB graduate · Housing professional · Independent local candidate

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Alexander Stoeber

Candidate for Santa Barbara City Council · District 6

My story is why I care. The work I’ve done since is why I know where to start.

Why I’m running

Stability changes what a person can imagine.

My family experienced homelessness and housing instability while I was growing up. I learned early what it feels like when a family is focused on getting through the next uncertain chapter instead of being able to plan for the future.

Coming to Santa Barbara for UCSB changed the direction of my life. I found an education, work, relationships, community, and eventually a place I wanted to call home. Santa Barbara became somewhere I could stop thinking only about getting through and start thinking about what I could build.

Today I meet people who love this city but are not sure whether there is still room for their next chapter here: teachers, caregivers, public servants, restaurant workers, tradespeople, young professionals, small-business owners, families, and seniors.

That is why this campaign is called A Future Here. Housing gives people roots. Health gives stable ground. Hope gives people a path forward.

Santa Barbara changed what I thought was possible for my life. I’m running to protect that possibility for others.

In my own words

Why I’m running for City Council.

The campaign starts with a simple question: can the people who work, serve, create, care for others, and contribute here still see themselves in Santa Barbara’s future?

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From experience to service

Santa Barbara became home.

Alexander Stoeber listening to two people on a neighborhood sidewalk

01 · EARLY LIFE

Instability made stability matter.

Housing uncertainty taught me how deeply a stable foundation affects school, work, health, relationships, and the ability to plan.

02 · SANTA BARBARA

UCSB opened a path here.

I came to Santa Barbara for college and found the community where I wanted to build the next part of my life.

03 · LEADERSHIP + WORK

Results require people and follow-through.

Managing and coaching teams taught me to listen, set clear expectations, solve problems, and make responsibility visible.

04 · DISTRICT 6

Now I live inside the decisions.

As a District 6 renter, I experience the housing pressure, downtown, businesses, public spaces, and city decisions I’m asking voters to trust me to help shape.

What I bring

Public service has to work in the real world.

City Council requires more than having the right values. It requires working with people, understanding complicated systems, making choices, building agreement, and tracking whether the decision actually produced a result.

Leading people

Clarity, listening, and accountability.

I have managed and coached teams, developed people, set expectations, worked through disagreement, and learned that a leader's job is to make the next step clear and help people deliver it.

Housing + local economics

Understanding what makes an idea deliverable.

My housing work and market analysis put me close to land use, permitting, construction costs, rental pressure, public assets, business conditions, and the gap between what is allowed on paper and what can actually be built or opened.

Showing the work

Make complicated decisions understandable.

Through my public writing and analysis, I have spent years turning complex local issues into understandable choices. I want City Hall to do the same: explain the problem, name the action, assign responsibility, and report the result.

I’m running as an Independent because local government should be intensely local. Housing, public safety, State Street, small business, permitting, and city finances are practical decisions. I want to work with anyone who has a good idea and question any approach when the evidence, cost, or result does not hold up.

My campaign, professional work, and independent analytical writing remain separate. No professional or client relationship buys access or favorable treatment, and any conflict in public office should be disclosed and handled through the required public process.

What I’m running to do

Make local life easier to build and easier to trust.

The issue pages go deeper. These are the outcomes I want residents to be able to feel in daily life.

Housing

Make room for local life.

More homes where they fit, faster and clearer decisions, workforce housing, better use of public land, and tenant stability that protects current residents without closing the door on future renters.

See the housing plan →

Health + safety

Humanity and order belong together.

Safe and usable public spaces, dependable public safety, clear rules, fair enforcement, crisis care, and a path from emergency response toward treatment, stability, and self-sufficiency.

See the health and safety plan →

State Street + local life

Give people reasons to return.

State Street should be Santa Barbara’s front porch: safe, active, local, creative, and full of life—with clear daily management and an operating plan residents and businesses can actually measure.

See the State Street plan →

How I will govern

Make the decision visible. Measure the delivery.

Voters deserve more than values and promises. Every major commitment should explain the problem, identify the lawful City Council action, assign responsibility, account for cost and staffing, and report whether the result happened.

What is happening?

A plain explanation grounded in public facts.

Why does it matter?

The human and fiscal consequence for local life.

What would Alexander do?

A named action, lawful Council role, responsible owner, and funding path.

How will voters know?

A timeline and public measurement of progress.

ACTION · OWNER · COST · DEADLINE · RESULT