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Araiza, Fatima <br />From: Alena Zotea <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> <br />Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2021 4:33 PM <br />To: eComment <br />Subject: Santa Ana Needs Rent Stabilization NOW - In support of Agenda Item 33 - Sep 21 <br />City Council Meeting <br />Sainta Ana City Couii Sainta Ana City Couii Sainta Ana City Couii <br />Dear Mayor Vicente Sairni and the City Couii Members of Sainta Any, <br />l urge you to vote llin favor of Agenda Item #33, and theireby Ihellpiing to einact ireint stabilization <br />and just cause eviction protections llin Sainta Ana. Correspoin6ii l urge you to take the <br />inecessairy steps to create a ireint board to help einforce these protections after they Ibecome <br />law. This or61naince was drafted Iby, and for iresidents of Sainta Ana with the goal of protecting <br />the imost vUlineirable working class tenants llin our comini <br />Fede14l and state COVIID 19 irellated eviction morat&luims and ad6fioii protections have <br />61their einded or wlilll expire Iby the eind of September 2021. IL.lilkewlise, the fede14l <br />unemployment(benefit Iprogiraims under the CARES Act einded on September 4th, 2021. The <br />COVIID 19 Ipandeirnlic is fair from over; the city of Sainta Ana has been the Ihairdest hit llin aIIII of <br />Oirainge County, with aIlmost 900 COVIID 19 confirmed deaths and over 48,000 confirmed <br />COVIID 19 cases to date. Yet, ireinteirs are (belling unjustly evicted and facing predatory ireint <br />�lincreases, aIIII while accuimUlating ireint debt which they are stillll liable for. Figures show 89% of <br />reii assistaince funds have inot Ibeen distributed at the fede14l level. In Sainta Any, rnl161ni <br />wage workers eair6ling $14 an Ihouir would have to work 104 Ihouirs a week to afford a imodest <br />1 bedroom apartment. Renters with ireint debt and reenters who have exhausted th6lir savilings <br />to avoid ireint debt cannot continue to face excessive and uii;table ireint llincreases <br />otheirwise they wlillll Ibe Ipeirmaineintly displaced from our city. Now imore than ever, Sainta Ana <br />ineeds REAL.. reinter protections to safeguard our comini <br />Cap ireint llincreases at 3% or 80% of CPI( (irate of linflation), wNicheveir is Mower for mufti unfits <br />built before 1995. <br />LJini ireint llincreases to a imax oince Ipeir year. <br />