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EXHIBIT 1 <br />F.The housing rent burden and poverty faced by many residents in Santa Ana <br />threatens the health, safety, and welfare of its residents, particularly when <br />resulting in eviction and displacement. Studies have shown that evictions play an <br />impactful role in the lives of low income renter households and can also <br />contribute to poverty through disruptive effects such as job loss, adverse health <br />effects, and negative consequences for children. <br />G.More <br />. <br />H.The Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, Dbmjgpsojb!Djwjm!Dpef section 1954.50, et <br />seq.,limits the applicability of local rent stabilization policies, including prohibiting <br />local jurisdictions from applying rent stabilization to certain residential rental <br />properties. This Ordinance intends to comply with the Costa-Hawkins Rental <br />Housing Act, and all other applicable state and federal laws. <br />I.Mobilehome Parks comprise approximately five percent (5.1%) of all housing in <br />Santa Ana. The city has 29 Mobilehome Parks containing 3,913 spaces. Six of <br />the Mobilehome Parks and one thousand twenty spaces in Santa Ana are <br />currently age-restricted to persons 55 years of age or older. <br />J.Many residents of mobilehomeparks could become homeless if mobilehome <br />park owners were to impose significant rent increases. <br />K.Increasing the number of homeless residents in Santa Ana, particularly elderly <br />residents who may be in need of medical or other care, could create a public <br />health and safety risk. <br />L.The economic conditions and recognized housing shortage in Southern <br />California has the potential to detrimentally impact a substantial numberof <br />residents in Santa Ana, and impose a particular hardship on senior citizens, <br />persons living on fixed incomes, and other vulnerable persons living in <br />mobilehomeparks in Santa Ana. <br />M.The Mobilehome Residency Law,Dbmjgpsojb!Djwjm!Dpef sections798,et <br />seq., expressly authorizescitiesto regulate the setting and/or increasing of rents <br />for the use and occupancy of a mobilehomespace,subject to certain exceptions. <br />N.Santa Ana Municipal Code, Chapter 41, Article X, establishes <br />standards for the development of mobilehomeparks as a type of multiple-family <br />residential development, and providesfor the establishment of said development <br />in areas throughout the City that will ensure their compatibility with other <br />permitted uses in the district, co <br />General Plan. <br /> <br />