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Orozco, Norma <br />From: Jennifer Ward <jward@ocbc.org> <br />Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 2:58 PM <br />To: eComment <br />Cc: Connor Medina <br />Subject: Comments on Item 33 - September 21, 2021 City Council Agenda <br />Good Afternoon, <br />Jennifer Ward, Sr. Vice President of Advocacy and Government Affairs for the Orange County Business Council (OCBC) <br />provides the following public comments on Item 33 of the September 21, 2021 Santa Ana City Council Agenda: <br />Honorable Mayor and City Council Members. OCBC must oppose the City's efforts to enact rent control and excessive <br />eviction restriction policies which will negatively impact housing opportunity in the city, rather than help it. Orange County <br />is experiencing a housing crisis with a severe shortage of units only projected to get worse if measures are not taken to <br />allow for more housing to be created, which would not be the result of the City's proposed policies tonight. Lack of <br />housing options not only impacts affordability, but also limits our businesses ability to attract and retain a future <br />workforce. There are other approaches that involve working with the private sector to increase housing availability and <br />affordability that will offer solutions for the community and residents, without adding unnecessary and unfair additional <br />barriers onto development. We encourage the City to focus on ways to improve its programs and processes for the <br />benefit of residents, businesses, and builders, rather than placing the burden solely on the private sector. We oppose the <br />use of rent control, especially as there are other opportunities for the City to address affordability issues among renters, <br />and ask that you work with the business community, not against it, to accomplish this goal. Thank you. <br />Thank you, <br />Jennifer Ward <br />Sr. Vice President of Advocacy and Government Affairs <br />Orange County Business Council <br />2 Park Plaza, Suite 100 1 Irvine, CA 92614 <br />C:530.219.1845 1 0:949.794.7215 1 iward@ocbc.org <br />R�SILIENi/OC <br />a EXR UNirY <br />Resil SS COUNCIL <br />THE LEAVING VOICE OF BUSfNESS <br />www.ocbc.ora and www.LocationOC.com <br />