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Samuel Avalos Samta Ana, CA 52701 March 5 2025 The Honorable Valerie Amezcua Mayor of Santa Ana Santa Ana City Hall 20 Civic Center plaza Santa Aria, CA 92701 Dear Mayor of Santa Ana, I am one of your constituents and I am writing this letter in regards to the issue of homelessness in Santa. Aria. ➢ picked this topic because I have to deal with homeless people on the way to my home from school. I ride tine bus about 3 times a week and there are always homeless people getting on the bus or homeless people at the bus stops. I have had a homeless person come up to me and ask me for money a couple of times. This is why I believe the homeless problem in Santa Ana should be seen as a problem that deeds to be prioritized as a problem that needs to be fixed. The problem of homelessness in Santa Ana has gotten so out of control that when you drive around any big streets in Santa Ana, you will for sure see a homeless person on the street. Many news outlets have covered this issue in articles„ One of these articles about the issues of homelessness in. Santa Ana is called "How Are Santa Ana Officials Going to Address homeless Encampments?" by Hosam Elattar and Hugo Rios and in the article it states "According to the latest count, there are 1,42B homeless people in Santa Ana — the highest out of any city in OC". Another article about homelessness is called "A suspect living at a Santa Ana apartment complex for the homeless was caught selling narcotics" by Art Pedroza and this article talks about a homeless man living in a rehabilitation center for the homeless in downtown Santa Ana who was selling drugs out of the complex. These two articles both share how Santa Ana has the highest count of homeless in all of grange County and how these homeless people in our city can be a threat to our community. These articles have led me to learn that this problem concerning homelessness has gotten out of hand and that information makes me want to keep on fighting to hopefully solve this problem. In conclusion I wanted to write this letter to ask you to push this problem of homelessness in. Santa Ana to be prioritized as a problem that needs to be fixed in the community because of the evidence i have provided showing how homelessness in Santa Ana is the highest in all of Orange County and how homelessness has contributed to crime in the city. In these circumstances, I have made a solution to this problem of growing numbers of homeless people. I believe to solve this issue of homelessness, you should add more rehabilitation centers for homeless people and give every person who checks into these centers a sponsor that can co viLwtw to then. and really try to help these pcop!e and If these homeless people go back to tine streets and gn back to their lifestyle, the police should be able to arrest them and they will be able to get there lives back together in jail. This solution will work because I have had family members who have lived on the streets willingly and some stayed in rehabs and got better while others had gotten arrested and in jail they learned how to accept the help they were given and rehabilitate. Thank you very much mayor Valerie Amezcua for your time and I would like to politely ask for you to respond to my concern. Sincerely, Samuel Avalos