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Orozco, Norma From: MJ Baretich <mjbaretich@hotmaiI.com> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2021 9:50 PM To: eComment Subject: COMMENTS FOR ITEM 33 Dear Mayor Sarmiento and City Council Members, This is such great news that the City Council is considering the Adoption of a Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO) and a Just Cause Eviction Ordinance. You are well aware of the extreme problems you are facing in the City and are considering this sensible and ethical approach. We have tried to get a Rent Stabilization Ordinance passed several times in Santa Ana, the last being in June 2019. But this is the first time the issue of rent stabilization has formally made it onto the Santa Ana City Council's agenda for a vote. It is shocking that through no fault of their own, seniors, veterans, disabled and other low-income mobilehome homeowners in the City of Santa Ana are being threatened with economical eviction, causing the loss of their homes and everything they have saved and paid for all their lives. They need your protection. These are people who have either spent their life -savings on a home or have mortgages on their home and are now facing extreme threats of rent increases for the piece of dirt that their mobilehome sits upon in the mobilehome parks. Many seniors have no family and are facing the horrible prospect of being homeless and living among the habitual druggies and others who prey upon these elderly citizens who are in their 70's, 80's and 90's. Something had to be done! And you are addressing it Tuesday night. As stated in the proposal, the City has 29 Mobilehome Parks containing 3,913 spaces. Six of the Mobilehome Parks and one thousand twenty spaces in Santa Ana are currently age -restricted to persons 55 years of age or older. The Golden State Manufactured -home Owners League, Inc. (GSMOL) is a statewide advocacy that fights for the rights of mobilehome homeowners at the local level and at the Legislative level and has been successful since 1962 in getting laws passed to protect all people living in mobilehome parks. The GSMOL Corporate Attorney Bruce E. Stanton, Esq. is the expert on RSO's in California, having written numerous ones throughout the State. His services will be available to the City to assist in writing your final RSO. The latest RSO that GSMOL had been supporting was for the unincorporated areas of LA County. Bruce and I and worked closely with the LA County Board of Supervisors. Their RSO contains a 75% of CPI or 3% max rent increase. There are currently RSO's in 106 cities and counties in the State. It is unacceptable to see these seniors and other low-income citizens being forced out onto the streets and being robbed when then visit an ATM, or 80-year-old women being raped as they try to survive on the streets. We do not need to add to any loss of dignity or to the homeless count in the City. Please help. 20