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Changing The City Landscape: From Garages To Second Residential Units, Scott Andrew Robidoux
Changing The City Landscape: From Garages To Second Residential Units, Scott Andrew Robidoux
Master's Theses
The City of Santa Maria, located between San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara in California, is experiencing rapid population growth, cultural transformation, and growth in household size. The growth rate of the city has been a consistent 20% for the past 20 years. Culturally, more than 70% of the almost 100,000 city residents predominantly identified as Hispanic or Latino in the 2010 census. The household size has consistently increased for the past 20 years; currently it is 3.52 people per household.
An issue which is becoming a growing problem for the city is the prevalence of illegal housing in the …