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G. Many residents of mobile home parks could become homeless if mobile home park owners were to impose significant rent increases. H. Increasing the number of homeless residents in Santa Ana, particularly elderly residents who may be in need of medical or other care, could create a public health and safety risk. I. The economic conditions and recognized housing shortage in Southern California has the potential to detrimentally impact a substantial number of mobile home residents in Santa Ana, and impose a particular hardship on senior citizens, persons living on fixed incomes, and other Vulnerable persons living in mobile home parks in Santa Ana. J. Santa Ana is working diligently to care for and assist its homeless population, and has opened and funded its own homeless shelter in the past several months to meet the needs of its homeless residents. K. The Mobilehome Residency Law ("MRL"), California Civil Code sections 798, et seq., expressly authorizes cities to regulate the setting and/or increasing of rents for the use and occupancy of a mobile home space, subject to certain exceptions. L. Santa Ana Municipal Code ("SAMC"), Chapter 41, Article X, establishes standards for the development of mobile home parks as a type of multiple -family residential development, and provides for the establishment of said development in areas throughout the City that will ensure their compatibility with other permitted uses in the district, consistent with the Housing Element of the City's General Plan. M. The City has not previously regulated the setting and increasing of rents for mobile home spaces. However, given the concerns discussed herein, the City Council desires to evaluate rent stabilization policies protecting mobile home residents from unreasonable' rent adjustments, while ensuring that the owners of mobile home parks may earn a fair and reasonable return on their property. N. With the lack of current local regulation, some owners of mobile home parks in the City may seek to significantly increase existing rents, which rent increases could exacerbate the current housing and economic conditions and impose a hardship on individual mobile home residents, many of whom are elderly and/or living on low or moderate incomes. O. Pursuant to the City's police power, as granted broadly under Article XI, section 7 of the California Constitution, and Santa Ana Charter section 200, the Santa Ana City Council has the authority to enact and enforce ordinances and regulations for the public peace, health and welfare of the City and its residents. 65A8271