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Orozco, Norma
<br />From: Houston, Nicole
<br />Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2018 3:02 PM
<br />To: Alcala, Abigail; Huizar, Maria; Mitre -Ramirez, Norma; Orozco, Norma; Rojano, Michael
<br />Cc: Castro -Cardenas, Julie
<br />Subject: FW: Fair Housing
<br />From: Liz Matthews [mailto:
<br />Sent: Monday, February 05, 2018 4:12 PM
<br />To: Pulido, Miguel <MPulido@santa-ana.org>
<br />Subject: Fair Housing
<br />I don't understand how you can stand with fair housing and rent controlled areas. What a sad state that we have
<br />become with this. Though I am in the lower middle class, I fear that all my housing choices that I can pick from
<br />might be rent controlled and set, which creates a lack of work ethic, a lack of ownership (even for a rental) and
<br />a lack of actually giving a crap.
<br />I have three small girls (5, 8, and 10). I don't live in the best part of town right now, but I know that if the areas
<br />around me become rent controlled, I will have to leave. I want a neighborhood for my children to ride bikes, to
<br />play, to be actual children, without the fear of what this decision might create for them. As I said, we already
<br />do not live in a great neighborhood; my pastor husband works for an air compressor shop and I work full time at
<br />a property management company. Though both of our incomes barely make life survivable for us, we only
<br />depend on ourselves, and work very hard to live where we do. If people were invited to live in our area without
<br />the means, without the care, with the "handout", my children's only option will be to play inside. When we
<br />moved to Fullerton, almost 8 years ago, my middle child was very young, and yet to start school. Once she was
<br />allowed to be in elementary, our district school was a mess due to all of the low income housing around us. We
<br />put her in our district school, hoping to make friends, and build her education.... all we found was fear, racism
<br />against my child, and judgement. How dare that because of this reform that my white child fear for herself, be
<br />bullied and discriminated against for being Caucasian AS A SIX YEAR OLD!!!!! Don't tell me that
<br />"minorities have it rough", my giant hearted child has NEVER looked at color, has NEVER cared of economic
<br />status, has NEVER care where someone has come from, and was being what she knew, loving, caring, and open
<br />hearted. Fast forward a couple of years; we are still in the same house, certain areas around us in Anaheim have
<br />become rent controlled, and the area has taken a dump and is shaken. I feel that I deserve the right of anyone
<br />who is working full time, taking care of my kids, and doing what is right in those situations (I don't get my nails
<br />done so my children can play softball; I don't get to eat out because I might have to buy a ticket to one of their
<br />shows at school). I make too much for the government to take care of me. So if someone moves in next to me
<br />that the government will take care of, sit at home, with Cheetos, beautiful mani and pedi, do you think that
<br />bodes well for not only my self esteem, but what about what the next generation will think? How dare anyone
<br />think that they can be taken care of without some sort of "give". I often say how my husband and I should get a
<br />divorce so we could live for free, free healthcare, and groceries! ! ! ! What a crock?! And now you want to bring
<br />all these people into my neighborhood to teach them not to work but to sit and be taken care of?! How will this
<br />be an example for the lives ahead of us?! How can this "rent control" idea benefit anyone from teaching people
<br />how to live and act in society?! Oh, I'm sorry, you don't like the president? Suck it up and be an adult and
<br />grow. Go to work, make money, live in somewhere you can afford. I work my ass off to live where I do, and if
<br />I had the opportunity to do/make more, I would to make a better place for my family. I don't as for anything for
<br />free, but if my new neighbor is given more rights than me just because they make less than me, you better
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