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August 14, 2018 <br />Dear Council Member David Benavides: <br />CIT Y PF <br />The Santa Ana Healthy Neighborhoods Alliance opposes the proposed 660 - 700 Bed <br />Emergency Shelter in Santa Ana. <br />Please be so kind as to provide your position: do you oppose or support the proposed <br />Emergency Shelter of this magnitude, 600 - 700 beds? <br />* Best practices and solutions for the homeless crisis indicate no shelter should be <br />larger than 200 beds. In 2014 we presented to the city council, several successful <br />housing models from across the country to solve the homeless crisis, including the Utah <br />model. This packet of successful housing models were hand delivered to the Santa Ana <br />City Council offices and the OC Board of Supervisors during the Normandy Campaign. <br />* As you have publicly stated at City Council meetings, Santa Ana has done its fair <br />share on providing housing and services for solving the homeless crisis in Orange <br />County. <br />* An Emergency Shelter with the magnitude of 600 - 700 beds will remove <br />responsibilities from the other OC cities to be actively engaged in the solutions, and the <br />construction/operation of housing facilities across the county; both transitional and <br />permanent. <br />* The impact of the proposed 600 - 700 bed facility will have a devastating impact on the <br />business community, residents, schools, and the homeless. Our current crisis will <br />continue, and increase. Santa Ana will continue to be a dumping ground for the other <br />OC cities. <br />We look forward to your written response. <br />Most Sincerelycz�4AXIZ'r � ( � <br />Susana Sandoval, Irma Jauregui <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />