Making It Home

PATH – People Assisting the Homeless – hosted its third annual Making It Home tour, with a sell-out event for 200 guests taking a tour in trolleys of four of our rarefied enclave’s toniest properties and raising around $75,000 for the nonprofit formed four years ago when Casa Esperanza, started in 1998, joined the 35-year-old Los Angeles-based charity as PATH Santa Barbara.

“It continues to have great success,” says Jennifer Hark-Dietz, executive director of PATH, which, since 2015, has helped more than 2,000 individuals find shelter, housing for more than 300 and employment for 400,

The three and a half hour expedition, which for the first time had a VIP trolley which left an hour early allowing more time for tours, started at Sonos on Chapala Street and had food and wine stations along the route, allowed guests access to Nancy Zink O’Connor‘s seven-bedroom six-acre Guy Lowell-designed Ca’ di Sopra, interior designer Tamara Honey‘s contemporary Honey House, Robert and Melinda Kemp‘s expansive 19-year-old Jack Warner-designed home on Pepper Hill, and Carla Lejade‘s colorfully quaint El Zapato.

The event wrapped with a party at Sonos, known for their home sound systems.