‘Closet’ Family Finds Apartment

NOWHERE TO GO: A little more than a year ago, a hardworking Santa Barbara couple and their year-old child were living in a $550-a-month walk-in closet. There were 15 other people sharing the house.

Then, soon after their second child, Elijah, was born, the husband lost his main job, and they had to leave even that cramped space. They faced the sadness and plight of homelessness as the holiday season approached.

“I didn’t know where we were going to go,” Delilah Santos told me. “We didn’t have a car, or furniture, nothing we could call our own. We didn’t even have a bed.”