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WIestern <br />Manufactured Housing Communities <br />October 4, 2022 <br />Mayor Vince Sarmiento <br />Mayor Pro Tern Phil Bacerra <br />Council Member Thai Viet Phan <br />Council Member David Penaloza <br />Council Member Jessie Lopez <br />Council Member Johnathan Ryan Hernandez <br />Council Member Nelida Medoza <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza <br />Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />Re: Item #25, Adoption of Ordinance amending the Rent Stabilization and Just Cause Eviction Ordinances. <br />Honorable Mayor and City Council: <br />Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association (WMA) is a statewide trade association representing <br />mobilehome community owners throughout California and many here in the City of Santa Ana. We renew our <br />opposition to the amended rent control ordinance. <br />Over a year ago property owners objected to this flawed ordinance stemming from a broken, and arguably <br />illegal, process to craft an ordinance to needlessly regulate your rental housing stock. At the time property <br />owners asserted that the Rent Control and Just Cause ordinance was unneeded, rent control is harmful to <br />tenants and property owners, the process was broken, lacked transparency with no outreach to rental housing <br />providers, and that the rental assistance funds had gone unused indicating that enacting the ordinance wasn't <br />necessary. i Unfortunately, none of our concerns were addressed and council passed the harmful ordinance <br />nearly a year ago. <br />At that time, the characterization of the original ordinance was that it is a "place holder" while the city <br />conducted the needed research and hire consultants to enact and implement the permanent ordinance. By <br />design, the permanent ordinance is before the council the same week ballots are mailed to Santa Ana voters for <br />final council action. This alone unveils the political motivation of the council majority and their unwillingness to <br />1 Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association September 20, 2021 letter to the Mayor and City Council of Santa Ana <br />Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association <br />Sacramento Office: 455 Capitol Mall Suite 800, Sacramento, CA 95814 1 (916) 448-7002 <br />Regional Office: 40335 Winchester Rd. #E165, Temecula, CA 92596 1 (951) 704-2427 1 julie@pauleconsulting.com <br />