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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCORRESPONDENCE - 60ADiana From: Sent: To: Subject: Dear City Clerk Gomez, Sal Ortiz <sal.ortiz@newportpacific.com> Thursday, April 30, 2020 4:52 PM eComment Reform the Rent Freeze As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am vehemently opposed to City's executive order mandating a rent freeze. Housing providers are doing everything they can to assist tenants, but the rent freeze goes too far. The City's executive order is clearly in violation of the Costa -Hawkins Act which exempts single-family homes and apartments built after 1995. It is written to applies to all tenants without the need for proof of being impacted by COVID-19 or income qualification. It appears the City is ignoring its taxpayers and housing providers who still need to keep up with their mortgages, property taxes, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to revise Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2- 2020 and ensure its compliance with state law. Sincerely, Sal Ortiz 6200 Edinger Ave Huntington Beach, CA 92647 sal.ortiz@newportpacific.com Diana From: Nolan Pruitt <canipa2700@homedepinst.com> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2020 9:25 AM To: eComment Subject: Reform the Rent Freeze Dear City Clerk Gomez, As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am vehemently opposed to City's executive order mandating a rent freeze. Housing providers are doing everything they can to assist tenants, but the rent freeze goes too far. The City's executive order is clearly in violation of the Costa -Hawkins Act which exempts single-family homes and apartments built after 1995. It is written to applies to all tenants without the need for proof of being impacted by COVID-19 or income qualification. It appears the City is ignoring its taxpayers and housing providers who still need to keep up with their mortgages, property taxes, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to revise Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2- 2020 and ensure its compliance with state law. Sincerely, Nolan Pruitt 6100 Corporate Blvd Baton Rouge, LA 70808 canipa2700@homedepinst.com I-. Salas, Diana From: Frank Holloway <fholloway@advancedonline.com> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2020 11:41 AM To: eComment Subject: Rescind the Rent Freeze Executive Order Dear City Council Members: I am opposed to Santa Ana's executive order mandating a citywide rent freeze. As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am working with my tenants who have been affected by the COVID-19 emergency, but this rent freeze goes too far, The city's executive order is clearly in violation ofthe statewide Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act. It is written to apply to all rental properties in Santa Ana and assumes that all renters have been impacted by COVID-19 without requiring any evidence to be provided. Rental -housing providers still need to keep up with their mortgage, property tax, insurance, Payroll, and other expenses, I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to rescind Section 3 of Executive Order No, 2-2020 and ensure the city's compliance with state law, Sincerely, Frclv"� a f-01[own� frank o, holloway president AMCIARESlR31VPS1 15320 BARRANCA PARKWAY, SUITE 4100 1 IRVINE 1 CA 1 92618 P: 949.595.5900 1 F: 949.595.5901 1 W: AMCLIVING.COM DRE# 00648144 This communication is confidential and may contain information or material that is proprietary, legally privileged and/or otherwise protected by law (all such rights and protections being expressly reserved hereby). 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The city's executive order is clearly in violation of the statewide Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act. It is written to apply to all rental properties in Santa Ana and assumes that all renters have been impacted by COVID-19 without requiring any evidence to be provided. Rental -housing providers still need to keep up with their mortgage, property tax, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to rescind Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2-2020 and ensure the city's compliance with state law. Sincerely, Jacquelyn M. Landreth 1804 Avenida Salvador San Clemente, CA 92672 JackiefiU landreth. corn 714-745-3498 Li Diana From: Tim O'Neil <o_neiltim@hotmail.com> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2020 12:29 PM To: Pulido, Miguel; Villegas, Juan; Sarmiento, Vicente; Penaloza, David; Solorio, Jose; Iglesias, Cecilia; eComment; Bacerra, Phil Subject: Rescind the Rent Freeze Executive Order Dear City Council Member: I am opposed to Santa Ana's executive order mandating a citywide rent freeze. As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am working with my tenants who have been affected by the COVID-19 emergency, but this rent freeze goes too far. The city's executive order is clearly in violation of the statewide Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act. It is written to apply to all rental properties in Santa Ana and assumes that all renters have been impacted by COVID-19 without requiring any evidence to be provided. Rental -housing providers still need to keep up with their mortgage, property tax, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to rescind Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2.2020 and ensure the city's compliance with state law. Sincerely, Tim ONeil I Diana From: Chris Ruffalo <chrisruffalo@cox.net> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2020 12:43 PM To: eComment Subject: Rescind the Rent Freeze Executive Order Dear City Council: I am opposed to Santa Ana's executive order mandating a citywide rent freeze. As a rental housing Provider and taxpayer, I am working with my tenants who have been affected by the COVID-19 emergency, but this rent freeze goes too far. The city's executive order is clearly in violation of the statewide Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act. It is written to apply to all rental properties in Santa Ana and assumes that all renters have been impacted by COVID-19 without requiring any evidence to be provided. Rental -housing providers still need to keep up with their mortgage, property tax, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. It is also disappointing and somewhat surprising that housing providers seem to be the only ones regularly targeted for reduction in fee increases, price controls or freezes. Why is it that no other business ever get targeted, just us. That seems extremely unfair based on how substantially we already contribute to the government. As such, I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to rescind Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2-2020 and ensure the city's compliance with state law. Thanks for your kind consideration, Chris it Diana From: Mary Frances <mfs1@aol.com> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2020 1:14 PM To: Pulido, Miguel Cc: Villegas, Juan; Sarmiento, Vicente; Penaloza, David; Solorio, Jose; Iglesias, Cecilia; eComment Subject: PLEASE STOP Rent freeze ISubject Rescind the Rent Freeze Executive Order Dear City Council Member: I am opposed to Santa Ana's executive order mandating a citywide rent freeze. As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, l am working with my tenants who have been affected by the COVID-19 emergency, but this rent freeze goes too far. The city's executive order is clearly in violation of the statewide Costa -Hawkins Rental Hosing Act. It is written to apply to all rental properties in Santa Ana and assumes that all renters have been impacted by COVID-19 without requiring any evidence to be provided. Rental -housing providers still need to keep up with their mortgage, property tax, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. Unless you have mortgage companies and HOA's stop their payments, it is unreasonable. These requirements force sales and limit rentals. This should be obvious. 1 respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to rescind Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2-2020 and ensure the city's compliance with state 'aw. Sincerely, Mary Stanley ,osta mesa, ca i Diana From: Alysa Morello -Clark <aysa@prestige-pm.com> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2020 2:45 PM To: Alysa Morello -Clark Subject: Rescind the Rent Freeze Executive Order Dear City Council Member: I am opposed to Santa Ana's executive order mandating a citywide rent freeze. As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am working with my tenants who have been affected by the COVID-19 emergency, but this rent freeze goes too far. The city's executive order is clearly in violation of the statewide Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act. It is written to apply to all rental properties in Santa Ana and assumes that all renters have been impacted by COVID-19 without requiring any evidence to be provided. Rental -housing providers still need to keep up with their mortgage, property tax, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to rescind Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2-2020 and ensure the city's compliance with state law. Sincerely, Alysa Morello -Clark, Property OWNER and Manager within Orange County! Alysa Morello -Clark Realtor g I DRE #01841322 Prestige Property Management I Prestige Realty 949.748.5458 1500 Adams Ave., Ste #317 Costa Mesa, CA 92626 prestige- m com HOURS: M-F: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm (Lunch 12:30 pm -1:00 pm) Sat: Showings by appointment only from 9 am - 12 pm The highest compliment I can receive is the referral of my name and number, or the introduction to your friends, family and business associates. Please be assured that anyone you refer to me will be treated with the same high standards, respect, and confidentiality. Thank you for trust and on -going confidence! (i Salas, Diana From: Christine Schachter <christines@pwr.net> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2020 2:52 PM To: Pulido, Miguel; Villegas, Juan; Sarmiento, Vicente; Penaloza, David; Solorio, Jose; Bacerra, Phil; Iglesias, Cecilia; eComment; Mitre -Ramirez, Norma; Ridge, Kristine; Carvalho, Sonia R. Cc: Phil Hawkins; Tim Shaw Subject: Public Comment for Agenda Item No. 60A of the May 5, 2020 Council Meeting Attachments: PWR Letter re Executive Order No 2-2020.pdf Honorable Mayor Pulido and Members of the City Council: Please find attached a letter from the Pacific West Association of REALTORS@ (PWR) regarding item no. 60A on the May 5, 2020 agenda to "discuss executive orders issued pursuant to declaration of local COVID-19 emergency Resolution No, 2020-016 and consider affirming, amending, extending or rescinding order related to temporary freeze on residential rent increases". Thank you, Christine Schachter Government Affairs Director Pacific West Association of REALTORS@ 1601 E. Orangewood Ave. Anaheim, CA 92805 714-245-5500 (main) 310-892-7121 (cell) christine§Ppwr net t I May 1, 2020 RE: May 5, 2020 City Council Agenda Item No. 60A Honorable Mayor Miguel Pulido and Members of the City Council: The Pacific West Association of REALTORS® is the local real estate association that represents the Santa Ana area, and PWR's 13,000 members promote homeownership, private property rights, free enterprise and responsible government. We write to you with extreme concern over the City's Executive Order No. 2-2020, issued on April 7, 2020, specifically with regard to Section 1J and Section 3 that "residential landlords in the City are hereby prohibited from increasing rent for all tenants while Executive Order N-28-20 adopted by the Governor of the State of California remains in effect or is extended by the Governor". Unless California law known as the Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act is suspended, the City of Santa Ana is legally preempted from trying to impose a sweeping and across-the-board ban on rent increases, a form of rent control that is prohibited at the local level, This unilateral move by the City Manager, acting as the Director of Emergency Services, alters and interferes with private contractual rights, especially as it does not exempt newer apartments or single-family homes that are rented out to tenants. We remain supportive of local, state, and federal government action around emergency relief Programs that are designed to promote housing security and stability. To this end, the California Association of REALTORS@ has created five (5) specific forms to facilitate landlords and tenants working together regarding the payment of rent and staying housed during the coronavirus pandemic. We've also established real estate best practices to enable REALTORS® to demonstrate care for the health and well of clients, colleagues and the greater public welfare. Unfortunately, the Executive Order No. 2-2020 goes well beyond its statutory authority and is not likely to withstand legal challenge. What remains most troubling is that an action of such magnitude was imposed without City Council deliberation and public input, setting a dangerous precedent that has lasting impacts on the ability of our elected officials to lead through responsible governance. Sincerely, Phil Hawkins, Chief Executive Officer Tim Shaw, Government Affairs Director Christine Schachter, Government Affairs Director ANAHEIM OFFICE - MAIN o LONG BEACH OFFICE 1601 East Orangewood Ave., Anaheim, CA 92805 5000 East Spring St Suite #110, Long Beach, CA 90815 (714) 245-5500 1 Fax (714) 245-5599 1 www.pwr.net nenuoa Diana From: Stacy Shi <stacyshi@hotmail.com> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2020 3:11 PM To: ulido@santa-ana.org; Villegas, Juan; Sarmiento, Vicente; Penaloza, David; Solorio, Jose; Bacerra, Phil; Iglesias, Cecilia; eComment Subject: Rescind the Rent Freeze Executive Order Dear City Council Member: I am opposed to Santa Ana's executive order mandating a citywide rent freeze. As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am working with my tenants who have been affected by the COVID-19 emergency, but this rent freeze goes too far. The city's executive order is clearly in violation of the statewide Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act. It is written to apply to all rental properties in Santa Ana and assumes that all renters have been impacted by COVID-19 without requiring any evidence to be provided. Rental -housing providers still need to keep up with their mortgage, property tax, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to rescind Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2-2020 and ensure the city's compliance with state law. Sincerely, Stacy Shi 1O Salas, Diana From: Vickie Talley <vickie@talleyassoc.com> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2020 3:15 PM To: eComment Subject: Public Comment May 5, 2020 Countil Meeting Item 60-A Attachments: 050120MHETWMAJointLetterFINAL.pdf Please see attached and thank you for confirming receipt. MHeT MODI Emtr ,111WI tI01Ae,9 LAInif ind 50 Vickie Talley, Executive Director MHET Manufactured Housing Educational Trust 25241 Passe de Alicia, Suite 120 Laguna Hills, California 92653 Phone: (949) 380-3303 Facsimile: (949) 380-3310 Email: vickie@mhet.com MHET has been working to protect mobile home park owners' property rights since 19821 If you are not a member, please ask me about joining today! This email is intended for the sole use of the intended recip!ent(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. No one is authorized to copy, re -use, disclose, distribute, take action or rely on this email or any information contained in it. If you are not the intended recipient, we request that you please notify us by reply email and destroy all copies of the message and any attachments. Thank you for your prompt attention. \\ � r MHeT Manufacture uoational May 1, 2020 Sent via email to: Mayor Miguel Pulido Members of the City Council 20 Civic Center Plaza Santa Ana, California 92701 w Western M Manufactured i t Plssociltion ecomment(cr�santa-ana o Housing Communities RE: May 5, 2020 Agenda Item 60-A Administrative Matters —Executive Orders Honorable Mayor and Members of the Council: The thousands of mobile home park owner members of the Manufactured Housing Educational Trust (MHET) and the Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association (WMA) are joining together with the owners of the city's twenty-nine mobile home park communities to share our concerns over the City Manager's recent Executive Order freezing increases of rents on all rental units in the City of Santa Ana. The day after the Executive Order, we expressed concern to City Manager Kristine Ridge asking how a rent increase freeze could legally interfere with existing lease contracts between park owners and their residents. These contracts spell out the time and amount of annual increases. We appreciate that we were provided with a response that explained long term lease agreements were not subject to the rent freeze. However, we still have concerns with the rent increase freeze order on all units in the City and want to be very clear that we object to any form of rent control including the rent increase freeze. The council has addressed this issue many times over recent years and has consistently rejected rent control. Instead, need based rental assistance programs funded by both private property owners and the City are being used to help qualified low-income renters in need. We understand that these are unusual times with many renters, homeowners and business owners experiencing dramatic loss of income due to government -imposed measures to fight the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Included in those measures are protections for renters with prohibitions on evictions and rent deferment for those impacted by COVID-19. Mobile home park owners are working with their residents to go above and beyond the letter and spirit of the emergency regulations in providing help and support for their tenants who have been negatively impacted. In addition, the City of Santa Ana has done an extraordinary job in joining with the State and Federal government to mobilized unprecedented resources and services to assist their residents who are in need. This is not the time to impose unfair and unreasonable regulations against the business owners in your city who provide housing for your residents. They are suffering, too with losses of income. t\ Page Two of Two Rent control is not the answer. This is no time to let the "camel's nose under the tent" to create expectations that rent control is acceptable in the City of Santa Ana. We urge the City Council to unanimously stand by your previous position that rent control is a failed public policy and to take action to remove it from the City Manager's executive order. Respectfully Submitted on Behalf of Santa Ana Mobile Home Park Owners Bali Hi Mobile Home Lodge Bit-0- Home Mobile Home Park California Mobile Home Park Caravana Trailer Park Clinton Mobile Estates Coach Royale Mobile Home Park Continental Mobile Home Park Country Club Mobile Home Park Fairview Mobile Estates Gardner's Park Holiday Mobile Estates Hyde Park Mobile Estates Kona Kai Mobile Home Park Lake Park Santa Ana Lake Park Santa Ana North By: Vickie Talley, Executive Director MHET Manufactured Housing Educational Trust 25241 Pasco de Alicia, Suite 120 Laguna Hills, California 92653 (949) 380-3303 vickiena whet com Le Fontaine Estates Liberty Mobile Home Court Park Terrace Mobile Home Park Plaza Village Mobile Home Park Quiet Village Mobile Home Park Sahara Mobile Home Park Sandalwood Mobilehome Park Sands Mobile Home Park St. Andrews Mobile Home Park Standard Mobile Home Park Stoneridge Mobile Home Park Taggin' Wagon Mobile Home Park Town and Country Villa Warren Park Mobile Home Estates Julie Paulo, Regional Representative WMA Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association 40335 Winchester Rd. #E-165 Temecula, CA 92591 (951)704-2427 iulie@pauleconsulting.com Diana From: Ugochi Nicholson<unicholson@publiclawcenter.org> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2020 4:58 PM To: eComment Subject: Letter related to Item No. 60A Attachments: Letter RE 60-A 5.1.2020.pdf Madam Clerk, We submit the following letter in response to item No. 60-A. Sincerely, Ugochi Ugochi L. Anaebere-Nicholson I Directing Attorney (pronouns: She/her/hers) Housing and Homelessness Prevention Unit Public Law Center 601 Civic Center Drive West Santa Ana, CA 92701 714-541-1010, ext. 280 direct 1 714-541-5157 facsimile unicholsonP—publiclawcenterore lwww.publiclawcenter.org Confidentiality Notice: E-mails from this firm normally contain confidential and privileged material, and are for the sole use of the intended recipient. Use or distribution by an unintended recipient is prohibited, and may be a violation of law. If you believe that you received this e-mail in error, please do not read this e-mail or any attached items. Please delete the e-mail and all attachments, including any copies thereof, and inform the sender immediately at 714-541-1010, ext. 280, that you have deleted the e-mail, all attachments, and any copies thereof. Thank you. i2 PUBLIC ' LAWCENTER_ Providing Access topisOce for Orange Couniy Low Income Residents May 1, 2020 VIA EMAIL The Honorable Miguel Pulido City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza Santa Ana, California 92701 RE: Executive Order No. 2-2020 — Letter of Support - Item 60A Dear Mayor Pulido and Members of the City Council: In response to Item No. 60-A, we write in support of the City of Santa Ana's Executive Order No. 2-2020 to freeze the rent for all tenants in the City of Santa Ana. As will be set forth below, the prudent decision of the City of Santa Ana to freeze rent increases starting from April 7, 2020, until repealed by the City Council, is necessary to protect the health and safety of the families and businesses in the City of Santa Ana, so that they may recover from the devastating impacts of the novel Coronavirus (a.k.a. COVID-19) pandemic. This current public health crisis is the worst we have seen in a century. More than 60,000 people have died across the country, with more people becoming sickened and dying each day, and the toll will continue to rise in the coming weeks. Orange County is not immune to this crisis, as Orange County has recorded approximately 1,299 cases, with 19 deaths.' Due to the strict, but necessary Safe at Home orders, businesses have shut down or drastically scaled back across many cities across the County, particularly in the City of Santa Ana. These shutdowns have caused massive worker layoffs. The impacts of these layoffs have left Santa Ana residents, particularly those of our clientele who are undocumented, wondering how they are going to afford rent and put food on their table. Further, the crisis is disproportionately affecting communities of color, individuals and families in low-income communities, including those who are undocumented, reflecting entrenched structural and economic inequalities. In the City of Santa Ana, where many families and businesses were living paycheck -to -paycheck orders enacted by Governor Newsom. People of color who are least likely to be abeven before the COVID-19 crisis, many families have lost all income due to the she llteto work r in place e from home, most likely to be renters, and most likely to be highly rent -burdened have been hit the hardest. ' Coronavirus infections low, optimism grown in Orange County, Luke Money, Los Angeles Times, April 14, 2020, Illtps://www.l atimes. coin/california/story/2020-04-14/orange-county-coronavirus-infections-I ow -optimism -high. 601 Civic Center Drive West • Santa Ana, CA 92701-4002 • (714) S41-1010 • Fax (714) S41-5157 12 As a public interest law firm who has served the most vulnerable residents in Orange County for close to 40 years, we are seeing firsthand the devastating impacts of COVID-19. As housing lawyers, we have been working around the clock alongside community organizers and tenant leaders to provide direct services and advocacy support in the midst of this terrible confluence of a catastrophic public health disaster and a worsening crisis of housing instability and homelessness. The simple fact is that residents of City of Santa Ana are only safer at home if they can stay in their homes. Likewise, businesses are only able to thrive in the City of Santa Ana if they are not faced with rent increases while they figure out how to rebuild and recover from one of the most devastating economic downturns on record. We applaud the City Council for taking the action, and being the first City Council in the County, to freeze rents to help its neediest residents and businesses. Notwithstanding, our organizations continue to be inundated with calls from tenants in Santa Ana who are receiving eviction notices, being locked out of their homes, or threatened with violence, arrest, sheriff lockout, or in the case of our brethren who are undocumented, threats of reporting them to ICE for removal, being intimidated or harassed, coerced or forced to sign forms and produce documents with personal and private information, or those who remain generally confused about their rights under the patchwork of new laws. Tens of thousands more, who are unable to access legal services, are enduring the same conditions. Contrary to the position submitted by the representatives of the Apartment Association in its letter of April 23, we would submit that the Executive Order No. 2-2020 considered the impacts on housing providers. This is because Executive Order No. 2-2020 did not suspend the collection of any rent from the tenant. Instead, it temporarily froze the ability of the housing provider to increase the rent, so that tenants are not forced into the untenable position of choosing between life necessities, such as food and shelter, both of which are desperately important during this pandemic. Before the freeze, we received calls from tenants whose landlords unlawfully increased the rent in violation of existing state law, Civil Code sections 1946.2, and 827, respectively, and then threatened the tenants with eviction if they did not pay the rent increase. These attempts underscore the need for tenant protections as set forth by Executive Order No. 2- 2020. In its letter of April 23, the Apartment Association goes further and states that the rent freeze will impact their ability to maintain their properties. The City Council should understand that these items: maintenance/supplies, and security are things that the members of the Apartment Association are required to provide to their tenants under California lawn, regardless of whether there was a rent freeze in place. As such, this should not be a basis to terminate the rent freeze. Further, to help ameliorate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the housing industry, the City already prohibited foreclosures where a landowner is unable to pay his or her mortgage during the pandemic. The rent freeze was necessary because COVID-19 pandemic has put at risk ' See Green v. Superior Court (1974) 10 CaUd 616 (du ty and coven& entire rental period); Civil Code § 1927 (providingty with implied covenant of quiet�e �obyment See also throughout the C it Code §1941.3 (CA landlords must properly secure all common areas of the rental property slid secure tenants' units with deadbolts and window locks); Civil Code §1714 (Landlords have a duty to take reasonable steps to protect tenants from the foreseeable criminal acts from another.) 601 Civic Center Drive West • Santa Ana, CA 92701-4002 • (714) 541-1010 • Fax (714) 541-5157 lq, the housing stability and health of low-income renters and people experiencing homelessness in the City of Santa Ana. The rent freeze under Executive Order No. 2-2020 is a proper exercise under state law the Municipal Code and Charter for the CitY of Santa Ana because the city enacted it pursuant to its emergency and Police powers as a valid emergency price control Article XI, Section 7 of the California Constitution empowers each city and county to "enforce within its limits all local, police, sanitary, and other ordinances and regulations not in conflict with general laws." This broad authority is traditionally known as the City's police power, and it enables local governments to legislate on matters of "[p]ublic safety, public health, morality, peace and quiet, law and order..."' A wide range of regulations on property rights have been upheld as legitimate exercises of a government's police power.' Likewise, the City of Santa Ana is empowered under its City Municipal Code and Charter to proclaim laws, pursuant to a declaration of emergency, which are necessary to protect the health and safety of its residents.' As the City Council is aware, these aforementioned powers are heightened during a state of emergency proclaimed by a local governing body. Government Code section 8634 authorizes local governments during local emergencies to "promulgate orders and regulations necessary to provide for the protection of life and property, 6s Governor Gavin Newsom further expanded the scope these powers through his Executive Orders issued on March 16 and March 27, 2020, in which he found that " because homelessness can exacerbate vulnerability to COVID-19, California must take measures to preserve and increase housing security for Californians to protect public health; and ...local jurisdictions, based on their particular needs, may therefore determine the additional measures to promote housing security and stability are necessary to protect public health or to mitigate the economic impacts of COVID-19."' Moreover, the police power of the City of Santa Ana, and in particular, to its City Council, applies to the "use of real property," and generally, "so long as a land use restriction or regulation bears a reasonable relationship to the public welfare, the restriction or regulation is constitutionally permissible."s The broad authority of the police power likewise extends to local governmental authority to enact price controls, including on rent, provided the legislation is "reasonably related to the accomplishment of a legitimate governmental purpose.i9 Local governments are authorized under the police power to regulate landlord/tenant relationships even if these relationships are "private" and the regulated activity associated with that relationship is civil in nature. 'Berman v. Parker, 348 U.S. 26, 32 (1954). See Penn Cent. TransP. Co. v. Newyork City ("Penn Cent."), 438 U.S. 104, 124 (1978). 'See Cal. Gov. Code §8634; Santa Ana Mun. Code & Charter §2-404. 6 Cal. Gov. Code §8634. ' Cal. Exec. Order No. N-28-20 (March 16, 2020), available at https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp- content/uploads/2020/03/3.16.20-Executive-Order.pdf; see also Cal. Exec. Order No. N-37-20 (March 27, 2020), available at https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-conteliUuploads/2020/03/3.27.20-EO-N-37-20.pdf, last visited on April 29, 2020. ' California Building Industry Assn. V. City of San Jose, 61 Cal. Ah 435, 455 (2015) s Birkenfeld v. City of Berkeley, 17 Cal. 3d 129, 158 (1976). See also Nebbia v. New York, 291 U.S. 502, 539 (1934) ("Price control, like any other form of regulation, is unconstitutional only if arbitrary, discriminatory, or demonstrably irrelevant to the policy the legislature is free to adopt, and hence an unnecessary and unwarranted interference with individual liberty.") 601 Civic Center Drive West • Santa Ana, CA 92701-4002 - (714) 541-1010 - Fax (714) 541-5157 1 2- Although only a legitimate governmental interest is required, in this unprecedented public health crisis, the City of Santa Ana has a compelling interest in protecting the health and safety of its people. Indeed, local governments have perhaps no more compelling interest than that in preserving the lives of their constituents. This health and safety interest applies to preventing exposure to COVID-19 now by preventing displacement, as well as to preventing the need for families to choose between rent or buying basic necessities through the duration of the crisis and to keeping tenants housed after the crisis is over. The City Council also has a compelling interest in preventing the crisis from having a disparate impact on people of color and undocumented workers, who as explained previously, have been hit hardest financially by the crisis. Moreover, in the context of a local emergency, the City Council has even greater authority to enact measures necessary for public health that may restrict property rights.10 More specifically, egitimately [curtail] a constitutionally -protected right "when a local governments can "l community has been ravaged by flood, fire, or disease, and its safety and welfare are threatened."11 California cities have relied on this power to enact curfews that curtail the public's right to travel during the riots that created a safety risk for people who did exercise that right." Likewise, now that the shelter in place order has left many tenants, both residential and commercial, without any income whatsoever, allowing an increase in rent would gravely harm the health and safety of the residents and businesses in Santa Ana. Thus, the rent freeze in place is closely related to these interests. The rent freeze has helped to relieve the feelings of tenants who fear that they may be forced to pay an exorbitant rent increase or break the shelter -in -place order to work to afford necessities, such as shelter. The City of Santa Ana has, therefore, acted in accordance with its authority under its emergency police powers. A temporary rent freeze does not violate the Takings Clause The City's regulation of property in this context will constitute a taking of such property only if it is found to be "functionally equivalent" to a direct appropriation or ouster under the "essentially ad hoc" fact -specific inquiry described in the Penn Central case.13 A temporary rent freeze, such as the one present in Executive Order No. 2-2020 should not have any long-term economic impact on the values of the rental properties, since any such impact would evaporate the moment the freeze was lifted. Moreover, a temporary restriction on increasing rents would not defeat the investment -backed expectations of affected property owners. It is also the type of "public program" that a Penn Central analysis would unlikely deem a taking. A tem or rent freeze is not unconstitutional under the Contracts Clause A temporary rent freeze, such as Executive Order No. 2-2020, is also not an unconstitutional interference with existing contracts. The Contracts Clause of the Constitution prohibits only "a substantial impairment of a contractual relationship. Even a substantial impairment maybe upheld if the state has a "significant and legitimate public purpose behind the regulation. ° See In re Juan C, 28 Cal. App. 4th 1093,1100 (1994) " Id. 12 Id. 13 Penn Cent., 438 U.S. at p. 124. 14 Energy Reserves Group, Inc. v. Kansas Power and Light Co., 459 U.S. 400, 411 (1983). '5 Id., United States Trust Co. v. New Jersey, 431 U.S. 1(1977) (holding that the elimination of unforeseen windfall profits is a legitimate state interest.) 601 Civic Center Drive West - Santa Ana, CA 92701-4002 • (714) 541-1010 • Fax (714) 541-5157 11, Courts also assess whether the adjustment of the parties' rights is reasonable and "appropriate to the public purpose" of the regulation but generally defer to state legislatures in malting those determinations." Since the end of the Lochner era, the Contract Clause has not been "read as a serious impediment to state social and economic legislation affecting private contracts."" In determining whether a regulation constitutes a substantial impairment, "whether the industry the complaining party has entered has been regulated in the past," is an important consideration in determining Whether a law operates as a substantial impairment of a contractual relationship. Because "the landlord -tenant relationship, if nothing else, [is] heavily regulated," new laws regulating that relationship are subject to less scrutiny.18 Landlords have come to expect that the state legislature and local governments will enact laws that will affect their contractual relationship with tenants. Here, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many policies have been adopted — between the City of Santa Ana's orders regarding tenant protections for tenants faced with nonpayment of rent due to COVID-19, and foreclosure protections, the multiple executive orders from the Governor, and the Judicial Council Order (California Rule of Court, Emergency Rules I and 2)—that have significantly changed the terms of the contractual relationship landlords have with their tenants. Additionally, emergency conditions giving rise to state regulation and the temporary nature of Executive Order No. 2-2020 cautions against a finding of substantial impairment. In Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell, the Supreme Court held that a two-year state moratorium on foreclosure of mortgages during the Great Depression did not violate the Contract Clause.19 Finally, it is important to emphasize, that the City of Santa Ana already affected existing lease agreements when it enacted its emergency eviction protections as it relates to the nonpayment of rent, but those actions did not rise to the level of a Contracts Clause violation because of the extraordinary governmental interest involved. Executive Order No. 2-2020 is no different and would not raise Contracts Clause concerns because the restriction protects the health and safety of the community.21 Executive Order No. 2-2020 is not preempted by state law because it does not indefmitel restrict a landlord's right to set the rent As explained previously, the City of Santa Ana may use its police power to "make and enforce within its limits all local, police, sanitary, and other ordinances and regulations not in conflict with general laws.21 A local ordinance is preempted from passing laws or regulations that s Id. at p. 412 Troy Ltd, v. Renna, 727F.2d 287, 295 (3d Cir. 1984) (citing Home Bldg. & Loan Ass'n. v. Blaisdell, 290 U.S. 398 (1934) (holding two-year state moratorium on foreclosure of mort a es did not violate Contract Clause).) 18 Id. at pp. 297-98 (holding law that "simply enlarge[d] the terms of a statutory tenancy" as not substantial impairment of contractual relationship). 19 290 U.S. 398, 44748 (1934). "See West Coast Hotel Co, v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937) (finding that the Constitution permits restriction of "liberty le contract" by governmental action where such restriction protects the community, health, and safety, or vulnerable groups). 21 Cal. Const. art. XI, Section 7. 601 Civic Center Drive West • Santa Ana, CA 92701-4002 • (714) 541-1010 • Fax (714) 541-5157 1E contradict state law. "A local ordinance is preempted by a state statute only to the extent that the two conflict." 22 The purpose of the Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act is to "prohibit the strictest type of rent control that sets the minimum rental rate for a unit and maintains that rate after vacancy... Thus, Costa -Hawkins gives landlords the right to impose whatever rent they choose at the commencement of a tenancy. This is known among housing law specialists as "vacancy decontrol." 24 Hence in this context of this international public health emergency, the delay in exercising the right to collect a rent increase, Executive Order No. 2-2020 is permissible under state law. In conclusion, this crisis demands bold actions from our leaders, which includes this City Council. In reference to the sweeping emergency rules adopted by the Judicial Council on April 6, 2020, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye wrote: "We are at this point truly with no guidance in history, law, or precedent. And to say that there is no playbook is an understatement of the situation." As the Judicial Council did in exercising its powers over the courts, so too the City of Santa Ana must fully exercise its police powers and take the courageous steps necessary to keep people housed during this crisis. While we implore the City of Santa Ana to do more to protect its residents from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic by adopting stronger protections (i.e., a complete eviction moratorium and longer repayment periods), at a minimum, the City of Santa Ana should keep its current Executive Order regarding rent freezes —No. 2-2020—intact. We are in state of emergency, and the law permits these temporary actions to be taken to safeguard all residents of the City of Santa Ana. The actions of the City Council will literally save lives in the City of Santa Ana, and allow people to stay safe at home, as intended. We urge the City Council to continue to protect its residents. Sincerely, /s/ Ugochi Anaebere-Nicholson Directing Attorney, Housing and Homelessness Prevention Unit Public Law Center 601 Civic Center Drive West Santa Ana, CA 92701-4002 (714) 541-1010 ext. 280 unicholson@publiclawcenter.org "Rental Housing Assn. of Northern Alameda County v. City of Oakland,171 Cal.AppAth 741, 752 (2009) (citing Action Apartment Assn., Inc. v. City of Santa Monica, 41 Cal. 4th 1232, 1243 (2007)). (2015 514 , 505 23 Masser Companies v. San Francisco Rent Stabilization & Arbitration Rd., 233 Cal, App, 4th )• 24 Action Apartment Assn., Inc. V. City of Santa Monica, 41 Cal. 4th 1232, 1237 (2007). 601 Civic Center Drive West • Santa Ana, CA 92701-4002 • (714) 541-1010 • Fax (714) 541-5157 \11 Diana From: Soto, Daniel Sent: Friday, May 01, 2020 5:52 PM To: eComment Subject: FW: Rescind the Rent Freeze Executive Order Importance: High From: G A <gka2@outlook.com> Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 11:01 AM To: Pulido, Miguel <MPulido@santa-ana.org>; Villegas, Juan <JVillegas@santa-ana.org>; Sarmiento, Vicente <VSarmiento@santa-ana.org>; Penaloza, David <DPenaloza@santa-ana.org>; Solorio, Jose <JSolorio@santa-ana.org>; Bacerra, Phil <pbacerra@santa-ana.org>; Iglesias, Cecilia <Clglesias@santa-ana.org> Subject: Rescind the Rent Freeze Executive Order Importance: High Dear City Council Member: I am opposed to Santa Ana's executive order mandating a citywide rent freeze. As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am working with my tenants who have been affected by the COVID-19 emergency, but this rent freeze goes too far. The city's executive order is clearly in violation of the statewide Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act. It is written to apply to all rental properties in Santa Ana and assumes that all renters have been impacted by COVID-19 without requiring any evidence to be provided. Rental -housing providers still need to keep up with their mortgage, property tax, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to rescind Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2-2020 and ensure the city's compliance with state law. Sincerely, Gene Almani Ij Salas, Diana From: Soto, Daniel Sent: Friday, May 01, 2020 5:56 PM To: eComment Subject: FW: Public Comment for Agenda Item No. 60A of the May 5, 2020 Council Meeting Attachments: PWR Letter re Executive Order No 2-2020.pdf Daniel Soto I Management Assistant City Manager's Offices dsoto@santa-ana or¢ (714) 647-5234 (office) 1 (714) 640-9788 (mobile) From: Christine Schachter <christines@pwr.net> Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 2:52 PM To: Pulido, Miguel <MPulido@santa-ana.org>; Villegas, Juan <JVillegas@santa-ana.org>; Sarmiento, Vicente <VSarmiento@santa-ana.org>; Penaloza, David <DPenaloza@santa-ana.org>; Solorio, Jose <JSolorio@santa-ana.org>; Bacerra, Phil <pbacerra@santa-ana.org>; Iglesias, Cecilia <Clglesias@santa-ana.org>; eComment <ecomment@santa- ana.org>; Mitre -Ramirez, Norma <NMitre-Ramirez@santa-ana.org>; Ridge, Kristine <kridge@santa-ana.org>; Carvalho, Sonia R. <SCarvalho@santa-ana.org> Cc: Phil Hawkins <philh@pwr.net>; Tim Shaw <TimS@pwr.net> Subject: Public Comment for Agenda Item No. 60A of the May 5, 2020 Council Meeting Honorable Mayor Pulido and Members of the City Council: Please find attached a letter from the Pacific West Association of REALTORS@ (PWR) regarding item no. 60A on the May 5, 2020 agenda to "discuss executive orders issued pursuant to declaration of local COVID-19 emergency Resolution No, 2020-016 and consider affirming, amending, extending or rescinding order related to temporary freeze on residential rent increases". Thank you, Christine Schachter Government Affairs Director Pacific West Association of REALTORS@ 1601 E. Orangewood Ave. Anaheim, CA 92805 714-245-5500 (main) 310-892-7121 (cell) ch ristines(o)pwr. net I I May 1, 2020 RE: May 5, 2020 City Council Agenda Item No. 60A Honorable Mayor Miguel Pulido and Members of the City Council: The Pacific West Association of REALTORS@ is the local real estate association that represents the Santa Ana area, and PWR's 13,000 members promote homeownership, private property rights, free enterprise and responsible government. We write to you with extreme concern over the City's Executive Order No. 2-2020, issued on April 7, 2020, specifically with regard to Section 1 J and Section 3 that "residential landlords in the City are hereby prohibited from increasing rent for all tenants while Executive Order N-28-20 adopted by the Governor of the State of California remains in effect or is extended by the Governor". Unless California law known as the Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act is suspended, the City of Santa Ana is legally preempted from trying to impose a sweeping and across-the-board ban on rent increases, a form of rent control that is prohibited at the local level. This unilateral move by the City Manager, acting as the Director of Emergency Services, alters and interferes with private contractual rights, especially as it does not exempt newer apartments or single-family homes that are rented out to tenants. We remain supportive of local, state, and federal government action around emergency relief programs that are designed to promote housing security and stability. To this end, the California Association of REALTORS@ has created five (5) specific forms to facilitate landlords and tenants working together regarding the payment of rent and staying housed during the coronavirus pandemic. We've also established real estate best practices to enable REALTORS@ to demonstrate care for the health and well-being of clients, colleagues and the greater public welfare. Unfortunately, the Executive Order No. 2-2020 goes well beyond its statutory authority and is not likely to withstand legal challenge. What remains most troubling is that an action of such magnitude was imposed without City Council deliberation and public input, setting a dangerous precedent that has lasting impacts on the ability of our elected officials to lead through responsible governance. Sincerely, Phil Hawkins, Chief Executive Officer Tim Shaw, Government Affairs Director Christine Schachter, Government Affairs Director ANAHEIM OFFICE - MAIN • LONG BEACH OFFICE 1601 East Orangewood Ave., Anaheim, CA 92805 5000 East Spring St Suite #110, Long Beach, CA 90815 (714) 245-5500 1 Fax (714) 245-5599 1 www.pwr.net neavo 1 `1 Diana From: John Fan <johnrfan2012@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2020 6:53 PM To: Pulido, Miguel; Villegas, Juan; Sarmiento, Vicente; Penaloza, David; Solorio, Jose; Bacerra, Phil; Iglesias, Cecilia; eComment Subject: objection to citywise rent freeze! I am opposed to Santa Ana's executive order mandating a citywide rent freeze. As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am working with my tenants who have been affected by the COVID-19 emergency, but this rent freeze goes too far. The city's executive order is clearly in violation of the statewide Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act. It is written to apply to all rental properties in Santa Ana and assumes that all renters have been impacted by COVID-19 without requiring any evidence to be provided. Rental -housing providers still need to keep up with their mortgage, property tax, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to rescind Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2-2020 and ensure the city's compliance with state law. Sincerely, John Fan 15 Diana From: kim myles <kimmyles9@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2020 7:06 PM To: Pulido, Miguel; Villegas, Juan; Sarmiento, Vicente; Penaloza, David; Solorio, Jose; Bacerra, Phil; Iglesias, Cecilia; eComment Subject: Rescind the Rent Freeze Executive Order Dear City Council Member: I am opposed to Santa Ana's executive order mandating a citywide rent freeze. As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am working with my tenants who have been affected by the COVID-19 emergency, but this rent freeze goes too far. The city's executive order is clearly in violation of the statewide Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act. It is written to apply to all rental properties in Santa Ana and assumes that all renters have been impacted by COVID-19 without requiring any evidence to be provided. Rental -housing providers still need to keep up with their mortgage, property tax, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to rescind Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2-2020 and ensure the city's compliance with state law. Sincerely, Kim Myles B Diana From: Leslie Manderscheid <Imande@sbcglobal.net> Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2020 12:30 AM To: Villegas, Juan Cc: Sarmiento, Vicente; Penaloza, David; Solorio, Jose; Bacerra, Phil; Iglesias, Cecilia; eComment; Pulido, Miguel Subject: Rescind the Rent Freeze Executive Order Mayor Pro Tem Villegas & City Council Members For your serious consideration, I am forwarding my email narrative sent to Mayor Pulido. I am opposed to Santa Ana's Executive Order mandating a citywide rent freeze. As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I fear this order will cause many local landlords to loose income necessary to maintain the property and possibly be forced to sell or loose rental properties. I and fellow property owners will work with tenants who have been affected by the COVID-19 emergency in compliance with the statewide eviction moratorium. The City's Executive Order is clearly in violation of the statewide Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act. The City's Order is written to apply to all rental properties in Santa Ana and assumes that all renters have been impacted by COVID-19 without requiring any evidence to be provided. Rental -housing providers still need to keep up with their mortgage, property tax, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to rescind Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2-2020 and ensure the City's compliance with state law. I was born in Santa Ana and a lifelong resident. I have been fortunate to purchase and personally maintain rental properties in OC. Please show respect to landlords. We provide needed & fair housing for your City residents. Leslie Manderscheid PO Box 10684 Newport Beach, CA Diana From: Nancy Novak <nnovak@cameronproperties.com> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 5:59 PM To: eComment Subject: Reform the Rent Freeze Dear City Clerk Gomez, As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am vehemently opposed to City's executive order mandating a rent freeze. Housing providers are doing everything they can to assist tenants, but the rent freeze goes too far. The City's executive order is clearly in violation of the Costa -Hawkins Act which exempts single-family homes and apartments built after 1995. It is written to applies to all tenants without the need for proof of being impacted by COVID-19 or income qualification. It appears the City is ignoring its taxpayers and housing providers who still need to keep up with their mortgages, property taxes, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to revise Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2- 2020 and ensure its compliance with state law. Sincerely, Nancy Novak 12851 Mediterranean Or Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739 nnovak@cameronproperties.com 111 Diana From: Sent: To: Subject: Dear City Clerk Gomez, Cynthia Suazo <csuazo@essex.com> Saturday, May 02, 2020 8:36 AM eComment Reform the Rent Freeze As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am vehemently opposed to City's executive order mandating a rent freeze. Housing providers are doing everything they can to assist tenants, but the rent freeze goes too far. The City's executive order is clearly in violation of the Costa -Hawkins Act which exempts single-family homes and apartments built after 1995. It is written to applies to all tenants without the need for proof of being impacted by COVID-19 or income qualification. It appears the City is ignoring its taxpayers and housing providers who still need to keep up with their mortgages, property taxes, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to revise Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2- 2020 and ensure its compliance with state law. Sincerely, Cynthia Suazo 4200 W 1st St Santa Ana, CA 92703 csuazo@essex.com Iq Diana From: Deborah Wilson <deborah.sue.wilson@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2020 8:59 AM To: Villegas, Juan; Sarmiento, Vicente; Solorio, Jose; Iglesias, Cecilia; Pulido, Miguel; Penaloza, David; Bacerra, Phil; eComment Subject: Rescind the Rent Freeze Dear City Council Member: i am opposed to Santa Ana's executive order mandating a citywide rent freeze. As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am working with my tenants who have been affected by the COVID-19 emergency, but this rent freeze goes too far. The city's executive order is clearly in violation of the statewide Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act. It is written to apply to all rental properties in Santa Ana and assumes that all renters have been impacted by COVID-19 without requiring any evidence to be provided. Rental -housing providers still need to keep up with their mortgage, property tax, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to rescind Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2.2020 and ensure the City's compliance with state law. Sincerely, Deborah Wilson Deborah Wilson 1�_b Salas, Diana From: Sent: Amy Wagner <amywagner53@gmail.com> To: Saturday, May 02, 2020 11:09 AM Cc: Pulido, Miguel Villegas, Juan; Sarmiento, Vicente; Penaloza, David; Solorio, Jose; Bacerra, Phil; Iglesias, Cecilia; eComment Subject: Rescind the Rent Freeze Executive Order Importance: High City Council Members: am opposed to Santa Ana's executive order mandating a citywide rent freeze. As a rental )using provider and taxpayer, I am working with my tenants who have been affected by the OVID-19 emergency, but this rent freeze goes too far. city's executive order is clearly in violation of the statewide Costa -Hawkins Rental ling Act. It is written to apply to all rental properties in Santa Ana and assumes that all :rs have been impacted by COVID-19 without requiring any evidence to be provided. al -housing providers still need to keep up with their mortgage, property tax, insurance, )ll, and other expenses. respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to rescind Section of Executive Order No. 2-2020 and ensure the city's compliance with state law. Wagner 21 Salas, Diana From: ALAN WAGNER <arw949@aol.com> Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2020 11:21 AM To: Pulido, Miguel Cc: villegas@santa-ana.org; Sarmiento, Vicente; Penaloza, David; Solorio, Jose; Bacerra, Phil; Iglesias, Cecilia; eComment Subject: Rescind the Rent Freeze Executive Order City Council Members: am opposed to Santa Ana's executive order mandating a citywide rent freeze. As a rental ousing provider and taxpayer, I am working with my tenants who have been affected by thi OVID-19 emergency, but this rent freeze goes too far. city's executive order is clearly in violation of the statewide Costa -Hawkins Rental sing Act. It is written to apply to all rental properties in Santa Ana and assumes that all xs have been impacted by COVID-19 without requiring any evidence to be provided. al -housing providers still need to keep up with their mortgage, property tax, insurance, Al, and other expenses. respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to rescind Sectic of Executive Order No. 2-2020 and ensure the city's compliance with state law. Wagner 21Z Diana From: Gomez, Daisy Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2020 5:09 PM To: eComment Subject: Fwd: Covid-19 Emergency Resolution No. 2020-016 Attachments: miguelspanishtrans202O.docx; ATT00001.htm Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse any typos. Begin forwarded message: From: Harriet Harris <hharris2706@gmail.com> Date: May 2, 2020 at 8:39:26 AM PDT To: "Pulido, Miguel' <MPulido@santa-ana.org>, "Sarmiento, Vicente" <VSarmiento@santa-ana.org>, "Penaloza, David" <DPenaloza@santa-ana.org>, "Solorio, Jose" <JSolorio@santa-ana.org>, "Bacerra, Phil' <pbacerra@santa-ana.org>, "Villegas, Juan" <JVillegas@santa-ana.org>, "Iglesias, Cecilia" <Clglesias @sa nta-a na.o rg> Cc: "Gomez, Daisy" <dgomez@santa-ana.org>, "Carvalho, Sonia R." <SCarvalho@santa-ana.org>, "Ridge, Kristine" <kridge@santa-ana.org> Subject: Covid-19 Emergency Resolution No. 2020-016 Dear Mayor Pulido, Councilmembers Sarmiento, Penaloza, Soloria, Bacerra, Villegas and Iglesias, With all due respect to all of you, as a property owner and manager of multi -family homes located in the City of Santa Ana, please find my attached letter requesting your consideration of no extension of Resolution No. 2020-016 I have been vested in the City of Santa Ana for over 35 years and believe we can accomplish our mutual goals in a more constructive and less punitive way. I also respectfully request that my letter be written into the record of the Council Hearing on May 4, 2020. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Harriet Harris Harris Taylor Management, Inc. 315 West 3rd Street Santa Ana, CA 92701 23 May 1, 2020 Mayor Miguel Pulido and Councilmembers Vincente Sarmiento, David Penaloza, Jose Solorio, Phil Bacerra, Juan Villegas and Cecilia Iglesias Dear Mayor Pulido and Councilmembers, On April 7, 2020, the City of Santa Ana mandated a rent freeze. We are very concerned about and opposed to this punitive measure. We believe it is unlawful. We implore you to rescind this draconian measure. Apartment firms have been bracing for an uptick in late payments and skips and are gravely concerned about their ability to keep up with their financial responsibilities, which remain unchanged as more jurisdictions adopt renter protections with limited relief for housing providers. Owners and operators rely on rental income to pay employee payroll, mortgage payments, taxes, insurance and, importantly, use the funds to maintain continuity of essential services for apartment communities as many renters must shelter in place. In addition to those pressing concerns, our state faces a housing affordability crisis — brought on by a housing supply shortage and crumbling infrastructure —long before the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. If lawmakers do not act to support landlords as well as renters, this ongoing crisis, paired with the economic downfall brought on by COVID-19, will only worsen. Apartment operators, employees and residents need additional economic relief to avoid a total collapse of the rental housing sector, which contributes $3.4 trillion annually to the U.S. economy. For this reason, we are asking you to create more direct rental assistance for landlords and the rental industry. This needs to be a direct emergency rental assistance program particularly for those who do not presently receive housing assistance. Freezing rents is not the answer. Like other Americans, housing providers have financial obligations to meet on a regular basis and this crisis is impacting large, medium and small housing providers, but could be especially devastating to smaller housing providers who ultimately make up the majority of rental property owners. These small businesses often function on low margins that cannot sustain substantial losses of rental income for any period of time. This could result in a reduction of housing quality and services as owners make tough decisions about reserves and reducing expenses. Page 2 The apartment industry can play a valuable role in the future effort to create measures that support the interconnectivity between housing and infrastructure that promote housing development at all income levels. Incentivizing localities to reduce barriers and adopt policies to encourage private sector investment in housing will attract investment to new and vitally needed projects. The arbitrary reduction of future rental income will only stifle the addition of new housing and apartments and will create decay and neglect. Please support affordable and practical efficiency incentives that enable developers to invest in engineering, construction and development of highly performing multifamily homes. Please do not impose a continued rent freeze on rental property. This will only have a negative effect on investment. Our businesses have operated in the City of Santa Ana for over 30 years. We support many charitable organizations such as Bowers Museum, Wiseplace, Kidsworks, The Boys and Girls Clubs, etc. Our ability to participate is directly related to our financial well-being. The enormity of the challenges we are all facing on a daily basis is mind -boggling. We need to commit to ensuring that the millions of Americans who live in apartments have a safe, secure place to call home. Sincerely, HARRIS TAYLOR MANAGEMENT, INC. Harriet Harris President 'L3 Mayo 1, 2020 Mayor Miguel Pulido and Councilmembers Vincente Sarmiento, David Penaloza, Jose Solorio, Phil Bacerra, Juan Villegas and Cecilia Iglesias Estimado alcalde Pulido y concejales: El 7 de abril de 2020, la Ciudad de Santa Ana orden6 una congelacibn de la renta. Estamos muy preocupados y opuestos a esta medida punitiva. Creemos que es ilegal. Le rogamos que rescinda esta medida draconiana. Las empresas de apartamentos han estado prepardndose Para un aumento en Jos pagos atrasados y saltos y esta'n muy preocupados por su capacidad de mantenerse al dia con sus responsabilidades financieras, que permanecen sin cambios a medida que ma's jurisdicciones adoptan protecciones Para inquilinos con alivio limitado Para los proveedores de vivienda. Los propietarios y operadores dependen de los ingresos de alquiler Para pagar la n6mina de los empleados, los pagos de la hipoteca, los impuestos, los seguros y, to que es ma's importante, utilizar los fondos Para mantener la continuidad de los servicios esenciales Para las comunidades de apartamentos, ya que muchos inquilinos deben refugiarse en el lugar. Adema's de esas preocupaciones apremiantes, nuestro estado enfrenta una crisis de asequibilidad de la vivienda, provocada por la escasez de oferta de vivienda y la infraestructura en ruinas, mucho antes del inicio de la crisis COVID-19. Si Jos legisladores no actuan Para apoyar tanto a los propietarios como a los inquilinos, esta crisis en curso, junto con la caida econ6mica provocada por COVID-19, solo empeorara'. Los operadores de apartamentos, los empleados y los residentes necesitan un alivio econbmico adicional Para evitar un colapso total del sector de viviendas de alquiler, que aporta $ 3.4 trillones anuales a la economia de los EE. UU. Por esta razbn, le pedimos que cree ma's asistencia de alquiler directo Para los propietarios y la industria del alquiler. Este debe ser un programa de asistencia de alquiler de emergencia directo, particularmente Para aquellos que actualmente no reciben asistencia de vivienda. Congelar alquileres no es la respuesta. Al igual que otros estadounidenses, los proveedores de vivienda tienen obligaciones financieras que cumplir de manera regular y esta crisis esta' afectando a los proveedores de vivienda grandes, medianos y pequenos, pero podria ser especialmente devastador Para los proveedores de vivienda ma's pequenos que fmalmente conforman .Z3 Pagina 2 la mayoria de los propietarios de propiedades en alquiler. Estas pequenas empresas a menudo funcionan con margenes bajos que no pueden soportar perdidas sustanciales de ingresos por alquileres durante ningun periodo de tiempo. Esto podria resultar en una reduccion de la vivienda. La calidad y los servicios como propietarios toman decisiones dificiles sobre las reservas y la reduccion de gastos. La industria de los apartamentos puede desempenar un papel valioso en el esfuerzo futuro para crear medidas que apoyen la interconectividad entre la vivienda y la infraestructura que promuevan el desarrollo de viviendas en todos los niveles de ingresos. Incentivar a las localidades para reducir las barreras y adoptar politicas para alentar la inversion del sector privado en vivienda atraera inversiones a proyectos nuevos y vitales. La reduccion arbitraria de los ingresos por alquileres futuros solo sofocara la incorporacion de nuevas viviendas y apartamentos y creara decadencia y abandon. Apoye incentivos de eficiencia asequibles y practicos que permitan a los desarrolladores invertir en ingenieria, construccion y desarrollo de viviendas multifamiliares de alto rendimiento. Por favor, no imponga un congelamiento de alquiler continuo en la propiedad de alquiler. Esto solo tendra un efecto negativo en la inversion. Nuestros negocios ban operado en la ciudad de Santa Ana por ma, s de 30 anos. Apoyamos a muchas organizations caritativas como Bowers Museum, Wiseplace, Kidsworks, The Boys and Girls Clubs, etc. Nuestra capacidad de participar esta directamente relacionada con nuestro bienestar financiero. La magnitud de los desafios que todos enfrentamos a diario es alucinante. Tenemos que comprometernos a garantizar que los millones de estadounidenses que viven en apartamentos tengan un lugar seguro donde llamar hogar. Sinceramente, HARRIS TAYLOR MANAGEMENT, INC. Harriet Harris Presidente Z3 Diana From: Cassandra Amos <user@votervoice.net> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 10:38 AM To: eComment Subject: Reform the Rent Freeze Dear City Clerk Gomez, As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am vehemently opposed to City's executive order mandating a rent freeze. Housing providers are doing everything they can to assist tenants, but the rent freeze goes too far. The City's executive order is clearly in violation of the Costa -Hawkins Act which exempts single-family homes and apartments built after 1995. It is written to applies to all tenants without the need for proof of being impacted by COVID-19 or income qualification. It appears the City is ignoring its taxpayers and housing providers who still need to keep up with their mortgages, property taxes, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to revise Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2 2020 and ensure its compliance with state law. Sincerely, Cassandra Amos 3730 S Bear St Santa Ana, CA 92704 Cass.amos@ymail.com Diana From: Sent: To: Subject: Dear City Clerk Gomez, Yann de Fabrique <user@votervoice.net> Sunday, May 03, 2020 12:18 PM eComment Reform the Rent Freeze As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am vehemently opposed to City's executive order mandating a rent freeze. Housing providers are doing everything they can to assist tenants, but the rent freeze goes too far. The City's executive order is clearly in violation of the Costa -Hawkins Act which exempts single-family homes and apartments built after 1995. It is written to applies to all tenants without the need for proof of being impacted by COVID-19 or income qualification. It appears the City is ignoring its taxpayers and housing providers who still need to keep up with their mortgages, property taxes, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to revise Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2- 2020 and ensure its compliance with state law. Sincerely, Yann de Fabrique 2524 Calle Jade San Clemente, CA 92673 yannswim@yahoo.com Z5 Diana From: Perry Cornwell <pcsra@sbcglobal.net> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 12:26 PM To: eComment Subject: rent freeze Dear City Council Member: I am opposed to Santa Ana's executive order mandating a citywide rent freeze. As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am working with my tenants who have been affected by the COVID-19 emergency, but this rent freeze goes too far. The city's executive order is clearly in violation of the statewide Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act. It is written to apply to all rental properties in Santa Ana and assumes that all renters have been impacted by COVID-19 without requiring any evidence to be provided. Rental -housing providers still need to keep up with their mortgage, property tax, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to rescind Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2-2020 and ensure the city's compliance with state law. Sincerely, Perry Cornwell SRA 26 Diana From: Ignacio Lopez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 2:26 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 2.i Ana Residents! Sincerely, Ignacio Lopez seven fourdesigns@yahoo.com 1601 M Flower st Apt 1 Santa Ana, California 92706 Diana From: almarosaromero53@gmail.com <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 2:34 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Z� Ana Residents! Sincerely, almarosaromero53@gmail.com 3200 w 5th st Santa ana, Ca 92703 Diana From: Julieta Lopez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 3:15 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May Sth 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa ZC1 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Julieta Lopez Julieta Lopez julieta.lopezl72525@gmail.com 924 N Towner St Santa Ana, California 92703 Diana From: Kayleigh Levitt <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 3:23 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa .30 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Kayleigh Levitt kayleig hlevitt@gmail.com 1125 W Walnut St Santa Ana, California 92703 Ip Diana From: Ivan Enriquez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 3:26 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent 3 freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Ivan Enriquez Former Chair of the Youth Commission Ivan Enriquez ivan.enriq@icloud.com 2314 Bobby Ln Santa Ana, California 92706 1,5k Salas, Diana From: Maria Baeza <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 3:32 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including houselessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 5Z, Ana Residents! Sincerely, Marfa Baeza 1236maria@sbcgiobal.net 308 Minnie st Santa Ana , California 92701 �L Diana From: Evelyn Torres < info @sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 3:48 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May Sth 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Evelyn Torres evelyn.torres0224@gmaii.com 1646 W. Walnut st. Apt. 1 Santa Ana , California 92703 Diana From: Ramiro Moreno <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 3:52 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa '�9 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Ramiro Moreno ram!rojrorendain@gmail.com 635 S Rosewood Avenue Santa Ana, California 92703 3q Salas, Diana From: Alondra Salazar <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 4:09 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 35 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Alondra Salazar aysalaza216@gmail.com 2215 S Rosewood Ave Santa Ana, California 92707 2d Salas, Diana From: Daniela Gonzalez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 4:19 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa �W Ana Residents! Sincerely, Daniela Gonzalez danielagonzalez794@yahoo.com 2914 W. La Verne Ave santa ana, California 92704 '-1 kp Salas, Diana From: Diana Castro <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 5:04 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa � `7 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Diana Castro Dcastro@berkeley.ed u 2714 S Pacific Ave Santa Ana , California 92704 Salas, Diana From: Flor Barajas Tena <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 5:06 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Flor Barajas Tena fbtena@gmail.com 2015 Valencia Street Santa Ana , California 92706 Salas, Diana From: Meghan Kliewer <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 5:19 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa �h Ana Residents! Sincerely, Meghan Kliewer meghanl6k@gmail.com 535 S Marigold Ln Orange, California 92866 A Diana From: Jesus Mejia <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 5:45 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa i 9 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Jesus Wile jesus.gomez392@yahoo.com 300 w second street Santa Ana , California 92701 (A k Salas, Diana From: Fernando Mejia <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 6:12 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May Sth 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05101/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa LA Ana Residents! Sincerely, Fernando Mejia mejiaf714@gmail.com 300 w 2nd st. Apt 365 Santa Ana , California 92701 -1I Diana From: Nubia Hernandez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 6:27 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa LA) Ana Residents! Ps. I have 2nd grade students whose priority should be learning to read not fearing homelessness. Sincerely, Nubia Hernandez nu biahernandez94@gmail.com 525 e. Adams st. Santa Ana , California 92707 Diana From: Danny Lucero <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 7:30 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01120). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 1 W� Ana Residents! Sincerely, Danny Lucero daniellucerol42@yahoo.com 802 South Hesperian Street Santa Ana, California 92703 LALk Diana From: Sharon Denes <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 7:53 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa (AS Ana Residents! Sincerely, Sharon Denes sharondenes@gmail.com 1918 S. Woodland pl Santa Ana , California 92707 -AI5 Diana From: Gina Espinoza <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 7:58 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa kG. Ana Residents! Sincerely, Gina Espinoza katiragina3l@gmall.com 2111 W 17 st apt k6 Santa ana , California 92706 �k# Diana From: Alisen Dupre <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 8:18 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa yI Ana Residents! Sincerely, Alisen Dupre aligiggles78@gmail.com 14631 Red Hill Avenue Tustin, California 92780 Al Salas, Diana From: Sent: To: Subject: Dear City Clerk Gomez, david hwang <gwertyjd69@proton mail.com> Sunday, May 03, 2020 8:17 PM eComment Reform the Rent Freeze As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am vehemently opposed to City's executive order mandating a rent freeze. Housing providers are doing everything they can to assist tenants, but the rent freeze goes too far. The City's executive order is clearly in violation of the Costa -Hawkins Act which exempts single-family homes and apartments built after 1995. It is written to applies to all tenants without the need for proof of being impacted by COVID-19 or income qualification. It appears the City is ignoring its taxpayers and housing providers who still need to keep up with their mortgages, property taxes, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to revise Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2- 2020 and ensure its compliance with state law. Sincerely, david hwang 15895 La Floresta Or Hacienda Heights, CA 91745 gwertyjkl69@protonmail.com 4q) Diana From: Jeffrey Dickman <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 8:31 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 1 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Jeffrey Dickman dickmanaj@att.net 1218 N. French Santa Ana, California 92701 '41 Salas, Diana From: Edgar Torres <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 8:46 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 630 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Edgar Torres esgarblow@gmail.com 306 s Sullivan st spc 20 Santa Ana , California 92704 77 Salas, Diana From: Lucy Dale <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 9:09 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 5i Ana Residents! Sincerely, Lucy Dale lucitajd23@g ma! Isom 1233 W. Marion Way Santa Ana, California 92706 Salas, Diana From: Henrri Ortega <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 9:19 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May Sth 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05101/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity, spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa �L Ana Residents! Sincerely, Henrri Ortega hwi115@yahoo.com 2849 S FAIRVIEW ST., UNIT E SANTA ANA, California 92704 ;Z Diana From: Daniel Tena <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 9:21 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa t 153 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Daniel Tana avidtena@sbcglobal.net 2015 Valencia St Santa Ana, California 92706 1�) Diana From: Yesenia Godinez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 9:40 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 5V Ana Residents! Sincerely, Yesenia Godinez godinez_ruby@hotmail.com 1214 W Santa Ana blvd Santa Ana , California 92703 5N Diana From: Nancy Mendez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 9:56 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 5'S Ana Residents! Sincerely, Nancy Mendez naneymdez@sbcgiobal.net 408 N. Jeanine Dr. Anaheim, California 92806 75' Diana From: Dustin Nguyen <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 10:01 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 15t., Ana Residents! Sincerely, Dustin Nguyen ngu.dustin@gmail.com 15935 Mauna Ct. Fountain Valley, California 92708 Salas, Diana From: Anaruby Oropeza <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 10:27 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 57 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Anaruby Oropeza 348772@sausdlearns.net 3101 S Fairview St Santa Ana, California 92704 Salas, Diana From: Kelly George <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 12:02 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May Sth 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05101/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Kelly George cherniebog@gmail.com 15123 brookhurst Westminster, California 92683 Salas, Diana From: felicitynf@aol.com <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 1:06 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 91 Ana Residents! Sincerely, felicitynf@aol.com 36 Blazing Star Irvine, California 92604 Salas, Diana From: Hector Bustos < info@sg.actionnetwork.org > Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 1:12 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa �v Ana Residents! Sincerely, Hector Bustos Hector Bustos hectorbustos9@yahoo.com 3502 S Olive st Santa Ana , California 92707 '0z) Salas, Diana From: Celina Olivares <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 1:53 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 61 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Celina Olivares celinaolivaresl2@yahoo.com 3205 Ramona dr Santa Ana , California 92706 W Salas, Diana From: Elizabeth Mendoza <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 4:16 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa b2 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Elizabeth Mendoza el izabethmemdoza@gmail.com 1439 Minnie st Santa Ana , California 92707 Salas, Diana From: Elizabeth Orozco <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 8:21 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 0.7 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Elizabeth Orozco elizabethorozco65Ol@gmaii.com 2529 W Pomona St Santa Ana, California 92704 n�7 Salas, Diana From: Raul Guadarrama <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 8:36 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa �y 5 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Wes Watkins s.wesleywatki ns@gmail.com 401 N Alderdale Anaheim, California 92807 65 Diana From: Y L <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 8:56 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 66 Ana Residents! Sincerely, YL leonyaritza79@yahoo.com 311 s oak st Santa ana , California 92701 u Diana From: Juan tomas Martinez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 9:29 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 1 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Juan tomas Martinez tomimartinez236@gmail.com 1021 N flower st apt#14 Santa ana ca, California 92703 6% Diana From: Jennifer rojas <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 9:36 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa t (96 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Jennifer rojas rojas.jen.renee@gmail.com 16162 sher lane huntington beach , California 92647 M, Salas, Diana From: Gina Espinoza <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 9:39 AM To: eComment Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de Mayo — Punto 60A de la agenda Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) as una pandemia mundial, qua amenaza social y economicamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad as de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen en hogares multifamiliares y viven an hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambien sabemos qua un gran numero de familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atencion medica. Debido a esto, reconocemos to vulnerable que es nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiera y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Mas alarmante aun, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente an riesgo de perder la vida. Los casos confirmados de COVID-19 en el Condado de Orange han ido creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 casos confirmados haste el momento (a partir del 05/01/20). Una gran parte de las personas en California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y por to tanto no podran pagar el alquiler. Mas de 3 millones de personas en California han solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange ha reportado mas de 13,200 perdidas de empleos. Estos son nOmeros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que las personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un periodo de seis meses mientras que tambien experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente para aquellos que han acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a los cuales regresar, han sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles para los beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible pars los residentes ponerse al dia con el alquiler. Si los residentes an Santa Ana no reciben una expansion de la congelacion de renta ya an vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores para Jos residentes, incluyendo la perdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes an Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos en un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes como oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de familias trabaiadoras sean expuestas a la perdida 1 47 de sus viviendas. Especificamente, les pedimos que mantengan y extiendan la congelaci6n de rentas hasta seis meses despues de que se levante la orden de emergencia. ipor favor, ACTOEN AHORA para proteger a los residentes de Santa Ana! Sinceramente, Gina Espinoza katiragina31 @gmail.com 2111 w 17st apt k6 santa ana, California 92706 g� Diana From: Maria Ruvalcaba <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 10:05 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our city mainly comprised of extremely low-income, primarily made up of renters, many of who reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significantly reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including houselessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at a significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement, and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent t 7o freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Maria Maria Ruvalcaba maria.ruvalcaba@kidworksc)c.org 1902 W. Chestnut Ave Santa Ana, California 92703 %v Diana From: Eduardo Araujo <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 10:34 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Eduardo Araujo eddaraujol@gmail.com 714 Hickory St. Santa Ana, California 92701 <https://u 1584542.ct.sendgrid. net/m pss/o/2AA/n iOYAA/t.31h/P58su I uwRfaScNOOCI1jQQ/ho.gif> -1\ Salas, Diana To: Noraima@latinohealthaccess.org Subject: RE: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo - Punto 60A de la agenda translation Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 crisis (coronavirus) is a global pandemic, which threatens our community socially and economically. Our community is extremely low income, they are mostly tenants, they reside in multi -family homes and they live in households with members of different immigration status. We also know that large numbers of families do not have health insurance or have inadequate access to health care. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to the financial crisis and homelessness. Even more alarming, our community is particularly at risk of losing life. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been steadily growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of O1/05/20). A large portion of people in California, including residents of Santa Ana, are losing their jobs and therefore will not be able to pay the rent. More than 3 million people in California have applied for unemployment benefits, and Orange County has reported more than 13,200 job losses. These are amazing numbers. We cannot ask people to pay back rent over a six-month period while also experiencing rent increases, especially for those who have accumulated immense debt: they have no jobs to return to, they have suffered significant reductions in their working hours and they are not eligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It will simply be impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If Santa Ana residents don't get an expansion of the rent freeze already in place, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including home loss and death. Without equitable access to housing, residents of Santa Ana will be displaced, and placed at high risk of exposure to the coronavirus. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently and prevent thousands of working families from being exposed to the loss of their homes. Specifically, we ask that you maintain and extend the rent freeze for up to six months after the emergency order is lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect the residents of Santa Ana! 7L Sincerely, From: Noraima Chirinos [mailto:info@sg.actionnetwork.org] Sent: Monday, May 04, 202010:43 AM To: eComment <ecomment@santa-ana.org> Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo— Punto 60A de la agenda Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) es una pandemia mundial, qua amenaza social y economicamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad es de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen en hogares multifamiliares y viven en hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambien sabemos que un gran numero de familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atencion medica. Debido a esto, reconocemos to vulnerable que es nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiera y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Ws alarmante aun, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente an riesgo de perder la vida. Los cases confirmados de COVID-19 en el Condado de Orange han ido creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 cases confirmados hasta el memento (a partir del 05/01/20). Una gran parte de Ias personas an California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y per Io tanto no podran pagar el alquiler. Mas de 3 millones de personas an California han solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange ha reportado mas de 13,200 perdidas de empleos. Estes son n6meros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que Ias personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un periodo de seis meses mientras que tambien experimentan aumentos de yenta, especialmente para aquellos que han acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a los cuales regresar, han sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles para los beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible para los residentes ponerse al dia con el alquiler. Si los residentes an Santa Ana no reciben una expansion de la congelaci6n de renta ya an vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores para los residentes, incluyendo la perdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes an Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos an un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. 7?_ Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes come oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar qua miles de familias trabajadoras sean expuestas a la perdida de sus viviendas. Especificamente, les pedimos que mantengan y extiendan la congelaci6n de rentas hasta seis meses despues de que se levante la orden de emergencia. iPor favor, ACTOEN MORA para proteger a los residentes de Santa Ana! Sinceramente, Noraima Chirinos Noraima(@Iatinohealthaccess.org 450 W. 4th. Street, suite 130 Santa Ana, California 92701 Salas, Diana From: Enrique Valencia <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 10:46 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May Sth 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa I-) Ana Residents! Sincerely, Enrique Valencia enrique@ocej.org 1905 E 17th St, Suite 325 Santa Ana, California 92705 -73 Salas, Diana From: Krystal Hernandez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 11:11 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05101/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa -7 �J Ana Residents! Sincerely, Krystal Hernandez krystalher19@gmail.com 2111 Cypress Avenue Santa Ana, California 92707 Salas, Diana From: contact@youceffkabal.com <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 11:11 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, contact@youceffkabal.com 739 Garland Ave #130 Los Angeles, California 90017 <https://u 1584542.ct.sendgrid. net/m pss/o/AAE/n iOYAA/t.31h/l M BJAN HvS8uyBjvvyCcZsw/ho.gif> 15 Salas, Diana From: Matthew.ripley13@gmail.com <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 11:32 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Matthew.ripleyl3@gmaii.com 1414 South Sycamore Street Santa Ana, California 92707 <https:Hu l584542.ct.se ndgrid. net/m pss/o/-AA/niOYAA/t.31h/-Kq9 K3QPRIGcq p5_uZj rtg/ho.gif> -76 Salas, Diana From: Cynthia Guerra <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 11:55 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). My own family's struggly matches the same precarity faced by too many of our Santa Ana residents. My parents lost around 75% of their income when they lost one of their two jobs. This has left only my my sister and my income to keep us afloat. Our rent was already too high, far exceeding the HUD's stipulation that we spend no more than 30% of our income on rent. A rent increase would devastate us. As is, we have very little room to save money, which is essential during a global pandemic given the potential medical emergency we can fall into. Both my father and sibling still have to go out to work increasing our risk of contagion of Covid-19. We live in overcrowded conditions which would make it absolutely impossible for anyone in our family to isolate in they event that they contract Covid-19. We cannot afford to pay for hotels to self -isolate. Given our already unstable financial situation and high risks, please tell what reason can a landlord possibly give to justify raising the rent? What reason do you have for allowing this? I know my family is not the only one. A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent %7 increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including houselessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Cynthia Guerra, Life-long Santa Ana Resident Cynthia Guerra cynthia.guerra8@gmail.com NA Santa Ana, California 92704 Salas, Diana From: Diego Teran <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 11:56 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Diego Teran diegoteran@yahoo.com 2106 Millwood St Santa Ana, California 92705 Salas, Diana From: Rosa Urquiza <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 12:16 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits or apply for unemployment because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including houselessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Rosa Urquiza Rosa Urquiza rosa.urquiza.3.16@gmail.com 1820 S Broadway Santa Ana, California 92707 Salas, Diana To: dontsendmenojunk@yahoo.com Subject: RE: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo — Punto 60A de la agenda translation Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, From: Joohana Espinoza [mailto:info@sg.actionnetwork.org] Sent: Monday, May 04, 202012:31 PM To: eComment <ecomment@santa-ana.org> Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo — Punto 60A de la agenda Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) es una pandemia mundial, que amenaza social y economicamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad es de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen en hogares multifamiliares y viven en hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambien sabemos qua un gran n6mero de a familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atencibn medica. Debido a esto, reconocemos to vulnerable que as nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiera y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Mas alarmante a6n, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente en riesgo de perder la vida. Los casos confirmados de COVID-19 en el Condado de Orange han ido creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 casos confirmados hasta el momenta (a partir del 05/01 /20). Una gran parte de [as personas en California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y por to tanto no podran pagar el alquiler. Mas de 3 millones de personas en California han solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange ha reportado mas de 13,200 perdidas de empleos. Estos son numeros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que las personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un periodo de seis meses mientras que tambien experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente para aquellos que han acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a los cuales regresar, han sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles para los beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible para los residentes ponerse al dia con el alquiler. Si los residentes en Santa Ana no reciben una expansion de la congelaci6n de renta ya en vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores para los residentes, incluyendo la perdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes en Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos en un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes como oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de familias trabajadoras sean expuestas a la perdida de sus viviendas. Especificamente, les pedimos que mantengan y extiendan la congelaci6n de rentas hasta seis meses despues de que se levante la orden de emergencia. iPor favor, ACTUEN AHORA para proteger a los residentes de Santa Ana! Sinceramente, Joohana Espinoza dontsendmenoi unk(& Vahoo.com 1530 pacific ave Costa Mesa, California 92627 Nom Salas, Diana From: Nathaniel Greensides <mynci90@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 12:31 PM To: Pulido, Miguel; Sarmiento, Vicente; Penaloza, David; Solorio, Jose; Bacerra, Phil; Villegas, Juan; Iglesias, Cecilia; Gomez, Daisy; Ridge, Kristine; Carvalho, Sonia R.; eComment Subject: Temporary Rent freeze and related emergency measures (upcoming agenda item 60A) Dear City Council I am Nathaniel Greensides and I am a taxpaying resident and tenant of Santa Ana. I have reviewed some of the initially received eComments and correspondence of those who oppose the temporary rent freeze and determined that they do not understand the difference between a rent freeze and rent cancellation/forgiveness. I wish to state for the record that I am in favor of a temporary rent freeze as well as (to any extent possible at the city level) mortgage and tax freezes throughout this pandemic. I wish to clarify here for you all the difference between a freeze and cancellation/forgiveness as well as counter against the opposition's claim that the rent freeze is in violation of the Costa Hawkins state law. A rent freeze means just that —to freeze the rate of any unit being rented out. It does not mean to imply cancellation or forgiveness of any rent unpaid. In this COVID-19 crisis, people are struggling with paying the base rents already established before the emergency orders were declared. Allowing for rent increases while folks remain unemployed would be a slap in the face to the residents which city council is supposed to represent. The fact that many of those who are opposed to the temporary rent freeze fail to understand this distinction should serve to embolden the Council to uphold the rent freeze in Santa Ana since both the city manager and the city attorney performed excellent due diligence in considering and drafting such an action. Furthermore, upon reviewing the correspondence and eComments thus far received by those in opposition, (aside from their lack of understanding of the definition of a rent freeze) I wish to note that many who have made their opposition to the temporary rent freeze public are not from Santa Ana. While they may manage rental properties in the city of Santa Ana, I do believe each and every Council member holds the belief that the voices and experiences of City residents themselves should matter more than any other entity and I urge the Council to remain with that belief. The argument that the temporary rent freeze is in violation of the Costa Hawkins state law act does not hold grounds due to the temporary state of emergency the world currently exists in due to COVID-19. State charter allows for local municipalities to enact measures in the safety and health interests of the public at large. Additionally, I urge you to consider the legal basis of both the city attorney as well as that of Public Law Center's Ugochi Nicholson - both of which align with many other cities' legal bases for rent freezes as well. Lastly, being a part of Tenants United Santa Ana, a coalition which includes renters and homeowners of Santa Ana, I have been witness to unjust and many times illegal tactics employed by landlords here in Santa Ana resulting in the destabilization of our communities and lives. Many landlords who do not understand housing laws and rights afforded to both landlords and tenants, attempt to bully and otherwise persuade tenants to leave their rental units in Santa Ana in the interest of profit and greed. To this extent, I urge the council members to maintain active lines of communication with their respective ward constituencies. I hope that you all will remain to serve our beautiful city in positive capacities so that those who have contributed to its success can remain, thrive, and prosper together. Please maintain the rent freeze for residential tenants, and to that extent, any local emergency ordinances in favor of homeowners receiving reduced taxes and fees associated with loss of income throughout this pandemic. Please also extend such measures for six months past emergency orders being lifted. Without it, even you as elected officials, will struggle to remain economically stable in Santa Ana. Sincerely, Nathaniel Greensides �1 Salas, Diana From: Roselia Sanchez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 12:32 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa M Ana Residents! Sincerely, Roselia Sanchez Roselia Sanchez rosie_please@hotmai I.com 1040 W. MacArthur Blvd Santa Ana , California 92707 �1 Salas, Diana From: adanna hulse <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 12:46 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa M Ana Residents! Sincerely, adanna hulse adanna.kai12@gmail.com 1726 nisson rd tustin . California 92780 W1 Salas, Diana From: Jon Sy <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 12:53 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, My grandmother use to tell me so many words of wisdom while growing up. One of those was, when fate has put you in a position where you are taking care of people, be very sure that you have compassion and mercy and that you act rightly and justly for their welfare. The Universe will come back to bite your sorry ass if you have been unfair and unrighteousness in any way. The Universe's justice will come and come it will in its own time when you least expect it. Sincerely, Jon Sy Jon Sy jonjsy@yahoo.com 372 E Orlando Way, Apt 4 Covina, California 91723 Salas, Diana From: Abby Reyes <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 1:06 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa v� Ana Residents! Sincerely, Abby Reyes and family. Abby Reyes abigailsreyes@gmail.com 12 Kahlo Court Irvine, California 92617 15 Salas, Diana From: Joann Lozano <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 1:20 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 66 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Joann Lozano joannml@uci.edu 29 vassar aisle Irvine, Texas 92622 Salas, Diana To: brigidocanongo1957@gmail.com Subject: RE: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo — Punto 60A de la agenda translation Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, From: Brigido Canongo [mailto:info@sg.actionnetwork.org] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 1:44 PM To: eComment <ecomment@santa-ana.org> Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo — Punto 60A de la agenda Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) es una pandemia mundial, que amenaza social y econ6micamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad es de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen en hogares multifamiliares y viven en hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambi6n sabemos que un gran nOmero de familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atenci6n medica. Debido a esto, reconocemos to vulnerable que es nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiera y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Mas alarmante aun, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente en riesgo de perder la vida. Los casos confirmados de COVID-19 an el Condado de Orange han ido creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 casos confirmados hasta el momento (a partir del 05101/20). Una gran parte de las personas en California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y por to tanto no podran pagar el alquiler. Ws de 3 millones de personas en California han solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange ha reportado mas de 13,200 perdidas de empleos. Estos son numeros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que las personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un periodo de seis meses mientras que tamb!en experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente para aquellos que han acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a Ios cuales regresar, han sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles para Ios beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible para Ios residentes ponerse al dia con el alquiler. Si Ios residentes en Santa Ana no reciben una expansion de la congelaci6n de renta ya en vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores para Ios residentes, incluyendo la perdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes en Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos en un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes Como oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de familias trabajadoras sean expuestas a la perdida de sus viviendas. Especificamente, les pedimos que mantengan y extiendan la congelaci6n de rentas hasta seis meses despues de que se levante la orden de emergencia. iPor favor, ACTOEN AHORA para proteger a Ios residentes de Santa Ana! Sinceramente, Brigido Canongo brigidocanongol 957Rgmail.com 2034 s broadwey SANTA ANA, California 92707 Salas, Diana From: Zander Salas -info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 2:56 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including houselessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa M Ana Residents! Sincerely, Zander Salas "May the people and the government respect the rights of all. Between individuals, as between nations, peace means respect for the rights of others" Zander Salas zanderm631 @hotmail.com 3225 south olive st Santa Ana ca, California 92707 Salas, Diana From: Alejandra Huerta <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 3:08 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Alejandra Huerta huertaa98@csu.fullerton.edu 1628 E Romneya Dr Anaheim. California 92805 Salas, Diana From: Tom Lyons <lyonstom@earthlink.net> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 3:08 PM To: eComment Subject: Rescind the rent freeze Dear City Clerk Public Comments: Please let me state my opposition to Section 3 of the Santa Ana executive order 2-2020. It seems that this executive order is directly in violation of the state Costa -Hawkins Rental Property Act that was passed several years ago. Mandating a rent freeze for all tenants, when, in fact most residents are still actually working, is a broad reach. No actual hardship by resident need be demonstrated, but all are given a 'benefit' at the owner's expense. Owners still have many property expenses, including, property taxes, licenses, utilities, pest control, trash pickup, grounds maintenance, etc. These add up to significant amount and will negatively impact individual owners. Unless these overhead costs are reduced, some owners may find it financially impractical to remain in the rental business. Indeed some properties may need to be sold. Single family homes will likely be sold to new homeowners that will then reduce the rental stock further. Many of these owners are already working with their residents to craft individual relief where properly needed. request that the Santa Ana City Council immediately rescind Section 3 of the Executive Order 2-2020. Tom Lyons This email has been checked forviruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com Salas, Diana From: Greg C. <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 3:15 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa It Ana Residents! Sincerely, Greg C. gac37@hotmail.com 811 N Main St Santa Ana, California 92701 Orono, Norma From: Brisa Lopez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 4:07 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa q �_ Ana Residents! Sincerely, Brisa Lopez Brisa Lopez brisa1354@gmail.com 1601 N. Flower St Apt. 1 Santa Ana , California 92706 Salas, Diana From: Melanie Mendoza <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 4:19 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa qf3 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Melanie Mendoza melanim5@uci.edu 1403 Cypress Ave Santa Ana, California 92707 R3 Salas, Diana From: Theodore Moreno <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 4:24 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa q4 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Theodore Moreno Theodore Moreno teddymorenol4@gmail.com 943 W. River Lane Santa Ana, California 92706 �L( Salas, Diana From: Ed Masterson <ed.masterson@cox.net> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 4:52 PM To: eComment Subject: Subject: Rescind the Rent Freeze Executive Order Dear City Clerk: I am opposed to Santa Ana's executive order mandating a citywide rent freeze. As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am working with my tenants who have been affected by the COVID-19 emergency, but this rent freeze goes too far. The city's executive order is clearly in violation of the statewide Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act. It is written to apply to all rental properties in Santa Ana and assumes that all renters have been impacted by COVID-19 without requiring any evidence to be provided. Rental -housing providers still need to keep up with their mortgage, property tax, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to rescind Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2-2020 and ensure the city's compliance with state law. Sincerely, Ed & Cathy Masterson q5 Salas, Diana To: Alexl98210@gmail.com Subject: RE: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo - Punto 60A de la agenda TRANSLATION Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, From: Alejandra Luciano [mailto:info@sg.actionnetwork.orgj Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 3:43 PM To: eComment <ecomment@santa-ana.org> Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo - Punto 60A de la agenda Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) es una pandemia mundial, qua amenaza social y economicamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad as de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen en hogares multifamiliares y viven en hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambien sabemos que un gran numero de familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atencidn medica. Debido a Un 1122 esto, reconocemos to vulnerable que es nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiera y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Mas alarmante aun, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente en riesgo de perder la vida. Los casos confirmados de COVID-19 en el Condado de Orange han ido creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 casos confirmados hasta el momento (a partir del 05/01/20). Una gran parte de las personas en California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y por to tanto no podran pagar el alquiler. Ws de 3 millones de personas en California han solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange ha reportado mas de 13,200 perdidas de empleos. Estos son n6meros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que las personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un periodo de seis meses mientras que tambien experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente para aquellos que han acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a los cuales regresar, han sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles para los beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible para los residentes ponerse al dia con el alquiler. Si los residentes en Santa Ana no reciben una expansion de la congelaci6n de renta ya en vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores para los residentes, incluyendo la perdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes en Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos en un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes como oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de familias trabajadoras sean expuestas a la perdida de sus viviendas. Especificamente, les pedimos que mantengan y extiendan la congelaci6n de rentas hasta seis meses despues de que se levante la orden de emergencia. iPor favor, ACTUEN MORA para proteger a los residentes de Santa Ana! Sinceramente, Alejandra Luciano Alex198210(aomail.com 317 S Flower St Apt. 2 Santa ana, California 92703 Salas, Diana From: Victor Cao <vcao@caanet.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 4:34 PM To: eComment Subject: Item 60A - Rent Freeze Attachments: 2020-OS-04 CAA Item 60A Letter Enclosures.pdf On behalf of the California Apartment Association, I am submitting a comment letter regarding Item 60A. I will waive our right to a full reading because the letter will exceed three minutes. Can you please ensure it is received by both City Council on the public record? Thank you, Victor Cao • Vice President of Public Affairs California Apartment Association vcao@caanet.ore • 949-474-1411 Questions about COVID-19: Visit our Resource Pape CAA Services: Events and Education Insurance Tenant Screening a'i Y Calif orniaApartment Association Orange County 3349 Michelson, Suite 200 Irvine, CA 92612 e'X (949)474-1411 ■ caanet.org May 4, 2020 The Honorable Miguel Pulido Mayor City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza Santa Ana, CA 92701 Re: Item #60A — Clarifications on Rent Freeze Guidance Dear Mayor Pulido and Members of the Santa Ana City Council, On behalf of the California Apartment Association, I would like to make several clarifications regarding what has evolved out of our discussions with City Staff about Santa Ana's rent freeze order. The topics in question are (1) interpretation of CAA's Safe at Home Guidelines, (2) our legal counsel's advice to the City, and (3) a comparison of Santa Ana's unlawful rent freeze in contrast with rent freezes that other cities have legally approved. 1. CAA's SAFE AT HOME GUIDELINES ARE NOT MANDATES BECAUSE NOT ALL LANDLORDS CAN PROVIDE THE SAME RELIEF MEASURES CAA's Safe at Home is a set guidelines and not mandates. The staff report glosses over the first sentence which begins by stating, "CAA continues to uree property owners..." (emphasis added). Our members have made every effort to implement guidelines to the best of their ability, but we recognize not every apartment owner -operator has the financial wherewithal to implement these recommendations. Codifying Safe at Home as government mandates creates a "one -size fits all" standard that many rental housing providers may find impossible to achieve. The staff report selectively leaves out this fact and seeks to misrepresent CAA's guidelines. CAA acknowledges the economic impacts that public health lockdowns are having on residents and we would add those impacts especially felt by smaller landlords. Residents and landlords do not carry the same burden. The City's approach toward rash decisions exacerbates impacts on some groups more than others. Nearly 60 percent of CAA's membership are independent rental owners, or better known as "mom and pop" owner -operators. Mom and pop owners may not have the ability to fully participate in Safe atl-lome. Please recall in previous a previous letter that landlords have not been relieved of several financial obligations such as payments mortgage, property taxes, insurance, maintenance, and other expenses. To better enlist mom and pop owners in Safe at Home, CAA sponsored a rent relief bill authored by State Senator Lena Gonzalez (33'd District) and Assembly Member Cottie Petrie -Norris (74'h District)' Landlords who participate in the program would be required halt rent increases for a specified period, waive late fees for past due rent, and essentially cut rent to 80% by not pursuing any remaining rent owed for months paid by the program. In contrast to mandates, CAA's positive collaborations with public officials has resulted balanced relief proposals for renters and landlords. We applaud the City's efforts to administer rent relief because it supports both tenants and landlords, but we must all recognize that funding is limited and flexibility is needed. (remarding page intentionally left blank) I Senate Bill 1410 - https://Ieginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1410 /7 2. CAA LEGAL COUNSEL PROVIDED BENIGN ADVICE ON HOW THE CITY CAN COMPLY WITH STATE LAW CAA has a strong track record of working collaboratively with several cities across the state. In fact, the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency wrote a memo to cities that references the California Apartment Association's website as a reliable resource on local rental housing policy.'- In contrast, the staff report makes it appear the City unfairly views CAA with prejudice. CAA's actual efforts to inform are vastly different than the staffs false depiction that we have threatener) the City. Prior to April 22, CAA sent several emails to provide resources about rent freezes in other cities.3 CAA extended useful advice from our legal counsel to City staff, which essentially provided pro bono legal work to ensure the City's compliance with state law (enclosure). By carefully reviewing the letter, you will count zero references to threats, demands, or litigation. CAA's counsel simply concluded, "[i]n view of the forgoing, we would ask that you amend the Executive Order to remove Section 3, so as to comply with state law." Additionally, City staff manufactured inflammatory commentary about CAA's member newsletter (enclosure). Again, a careful review of the member correspondence will reveal zero legal threats. The article concludes, "CAA sent this letter to the city of Santa Ana, asIdne that it amend the executive order imposing the rent freeze so that it complies with Costa -Hawkins: '4 The staff report conveniently leaves out a direct reference and cherry -picks statements to fit an combative narrative. I encourage you to read all of the source documents for yourself. We remain open to alternative suggestions for the word "ask" if City staff has determined that an ask is too much of an "aggressive legal approach." As it turns out, a thesaurus provides very few synonyms. The time devoted to misrepresenting CAA simply disguises the deficiencies in the City s adoption of an unlawful rent freeze provision. I encourage the City Council to finally turn its attention to the pertinent issue at hand. 3. THE FACTS ABOUT RENT FREEZES LEGALLY AUTHORIZED BY CITIES City staff makes several arguments, but provides zero justification for the rent freeze order. City staff has failed to defend the rent freeze because of several logical fallacies (1) arguing the semantics of a rent freeze, (2) claiming that home rule can override state restrictions on rent control, and (3) referencing ordinances from five other California cities with incomplete information. First, the rent freezes effective period does not change the definition of rent control; to inhibit a change in rental rates is in fact rent control3 The semantics presented by City staff is frivolous. Second, rent control is a matter of statewide concern and not a municipal affair. For 25 years, Costa -Hawkins has prohibited cities (including those with charters) from enacting rent control on units built after 1995 and excluding certain types of properties (e.g. single-family homes). Los Angeles, Oakland, Glendale, and Concord have recently approved rent freezes within the context of the State of California's authority. Your peer cities are also experiencing public health crises, but none have gone so far as to curtail fundamental property rights as the City of Santa Ana has done. Third, the staff report suggests the City has a moral equivalency to other cities who have frozen rents, but staff failed to conduct their research thoroughly or conveniently left out important details for legally compliant rent freezes. For your convenience, CAA has prepared a more comprehensive summary with an analysis and citations in the table on the next page: (remaining page intentionally deft blank) 2https:llwvvw.bcsh.ca.gov/coronavirusl9/eviction eos_guidance.pdf 3 Emails to Kristine Ridge (City Manager) on April 13, 2020 4 https://cannet.org/caa-challenges-local-governments-over-violating-costa- hawki ns/71=542303&sfmc_sub=84420776&1=426_HT ML&u=11607615&mid=100003558&jb=77 5 Rent control as defined by Mealam-Webster Dictionary: government regulation of the amount charged as rent for housing and often also of eviction T? NIELSEN MERKSAMER PARRINELLO GROSS & LEONI EEP April 22, 2020 Ms. Kristine Ridge City Manager/Dir. of Emergency Servs. Sonia Carvahlo, Esq. City Attorney City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza Santa Ana, California 92701 POLITICAL & LAW GOVERNMENT ! ADVOCACY LITIGATION VIA PDF E-MAIL KRidge@ Santa-ana.o rg SCarvalho (@santa-ana.o rg Re: Executive Order No. 2-2020. 4 3 (Ban on Rent Increases) Dear Ms. Ridge and Ms. Carvahlo: I write on behalf of the California Apartment Association concerning Executive Order No. 2-2020, and in particular Section 3 of that Order, which prohibits rent increases on every tenant in the city: SECTION 3. Based on the findings set forth in the Executive Order adopted by the Director of Emergency Services on March 19, 2020, residential landlords in the City are hereby prohibited from increasing rent for all tenants while Executive Order N-28-20 adopted by the Governor of the State of California remains in effect or is extended by the Governor. While we recognize that the Governor's various emergency orders have expanded local governments' authority in some respects during the current shelter -in -place periods, those orders do not authorize this provision, which is beyond the power of the City of Santa Ana. It is pre- empted by the Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act, Civ. Code §§ 1954.50- 1954.545 ("Costa -Hawkins"); Assembly Bill 1482 (2019-2020 Reg. Sess.); and Penal Code § 396. [CES2223.0101 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 2350 KERNER BLVD, SUITE 250 SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901 T415,389.6800 F415.388.6874 SACRAMENTO 1415 L STREET, SUITE 1200 SACRAMENTO, CA 95814 T916.446.6752 F916.446.6106 NMGOVLAW.COM q1 jurisdiction Surmnary and Citations City of Los Angeles Staff identified that the rent freeze only applies tenants subject to the City's rent stabilization ordinance. However, the order does not annlvannly to single-family homes, condominiums or townhomes, and rental units built after 1978.E City of Glendale Glendale explicitly exempts: (1) single family homes, condominiums or townhomes, and rental units built on or after February 1, 1995.7 City of Oakland Staff identified for residential tenants regulated under the Oakland Rent Adjustment Ordinance, however conveniently left out is the fact rents are allowed to increase on those units by 3 5% (Consumer Price Indexl 8 The ordinance inherently does not apply to single-family homes, condominiums or townhomes, owner -occupied duplexes, and rental units built after to 1980. City of Concord Section 10 subtitled "Exceptions and Exemptions" expressly exemi2ts single- family owner -occupied residences, duplexes, housing that has been issued a certificate of occupancy within the previous 15 years, and "for units if exempt under State law." 9 City of Eureka Staff identified that the City of Eureka approved a rent freeze that applies to all landlords. CAA will request the City to consider compliance with state law. Except for Eureka (a rural city of 27,000 residents), four metropolitan cities that share similarities to Santa Ana have specific language in their ordinances to ensure their compliance with the Costa -Hawkins Act. Santa Ana is not consistent with other cities cited in the staff report. It would be incumbent upon the City of Santa Ana to rescind or amend its order. CONCLUSION By May 5th, it will be a total of 27 days in which City staff appears to have ignored CAA's efforts to help the City of Santa Ana implement legally compliant housing policy. Given the lack of an adequate response, it would be reasonable to conclude that CAA and its partner organizations have more than lived up to the commitment to exert patience. With the help of the City Council, all parties should be called on to relieve themselves of grievances and move forward on an amicable resolution with a defined timetable. Option 1 provided in the staff report remains insufficient because it makes the same mistake of glossing over the need for the City to comply with state law. For these reasons, CAA is respectfully asking the City Council to reconsider its rent freeze provision by either (a) rescinding the provision in its entirety, or (b) directing the City Attorney to rewrite the provision in order to conform with state law. Thank you for your time and thoughtful consideration. Respectfully, 1,41 9 Victor Cao Vice President of Public Affairs California Apartment Association Enclosures (3) 8 https://hcidla2.lacity.org/covid-19-renter-protections 'Glendale Renters & Landlords "Exceptions" https://www.glendaleca.gov/home/showdocument?id=48950 8 r11.....11-- .....f ndf �7 Kristine Ridge, City Manager Sonia Carvahlo, City Attorney City of Santa Ana April22, 2020 Page 3 of 4 ATTORNEY -CLIENT COMMUNICATION PRIVILEGED & CONFIDENTIAL ability to enforce those rents by eviction during the emergency period. Consistent with that fact, the Governor's Order expressly identified "Civil Code sections 1940 et seq.' (regulating certain aspects of with residential rentals) and "1954.25 et seq" (dealing with commercial rent control) as being waived, but conspicuously omitted any reference to Civil Code section 1954.50 etseq.—i.e., Costa -Hawkins. Finally, though Penal Code § 396(k) provides that "This section does not preempt any local ordinance prohibiting the same or similar conduct or imposing a more severe penalty for the same conduct prohibited by this section," that provision does not justify the City's complete prohibition on rent increases. For one thing, it contains no exception to Costa -Hawkins, which has not been waived and therefore remains applicable; which does expressly preempt local action with respect to rental rates for many units; and which was the statute adopted later in time.' Moreover, by disclaiming preemption of "any local ordinance prohibiting the same or similar conduct," Penal Code § 396 implicitly reflects an intention to preempt ordinances that do go beyond "prohibiting the same or similar conduct," such as Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2- 2020. A local policy that prohibits rent increases altogether during an emergency can hardly be said to be "prohibiting the same or similar conduct" as one that permits a 10 percent increase in such circumstances, and more in some cases. That is especially clear when Penal Code § 396(e), authorizing the 10 percent increase, is contrasted with Penal Code § 396(f), which does freeze temporarily freeze rents on units that become vacant pursuant to an eviction during the emergency. Penal Code § 396(e) is clearly meant to permit reasonable rent increases otherwise, in accordance with applicable law (Le., Costa -Hawkins and AB 1482). ' The provision that is now Penal Code § 396(k) was originally adopted in 1994. See Stats. 1st Ex. Sess. 1993-94, ch 52, § 2 (AB 36 X). Costa -Hawkins was adopted the following year. [CE32221.030] 9� Kristine Ridge, City Manager Sonia Carvahlo, City Attorney City of Santa Ana April 22, 2020 Page 2 of 4 ATTORNEY -CLIENT COMMUNICATION PRIVILEGED & CONFIDENTIAL Costa -Hawkins "permits owners of certain types of property to adjust the rent on such property at will, '[n]otwithstanding any other provision of law.' (Civ. Code § 1954.52, subd. (a).)" DeZerega v. Meggs, 83 Cal. App. 4th 28, 40-41 (2000) (emphasis added). Simply put, it permits the landlords of single family homes, rental units for which a certificate of occupancywas issued after February 1,1995, and earlier -constructed rental units which were already exempt by local law to raise rents without local interference at all, see Civ. Code § 1954.52(a), and with respect to all other units it permits landlords to raise rents upon vacancy, see Civ. Code § 1954.53(a). Section 3 of the Executive Order runs contrary to this statute. Assembly Bill 1482, codified at 2019 Cal. Stats. 597, qualifies Costa -Hawkins somewhat. It directly limits rent increases on certain units that would otherwise be totally exempt from regulation under Costa - Hawkins. Civ. Code § 1947.12. However, it does so as a matter of state law; it does not give local governments any greater power to regulate rent increases than they had under Costa -Hawkins itself. In fact, AB 1482 is explicit about this fact. See Civ. Code § 1947.12 (k)(1) & (2). So AB 1482 does not authorize Section 3 of the Executive Order either. Finally, during emergencies Penal Code § 396(e) makes it unlawful for a landlord "to increase the rental price, as defined in paragraph (11) of subdivision 0), advertised, offered, or charged for housing, to an existing or prospective tenant, by more than 10 percent," with certain exceptions. The Executive Order, by contrast, purports to make it illegal for a landlord to increase the rental price by any amount whatsoever. This, it cannot do. While Governor Newsom's Executive Order N-28-20 waived certain provisions of state law to permit local governments to restrict evictions during the emergency, it did not go so far as to waive provisions — like Costa -Hawkins —that give landlords the ability to set their rents. To the contrary, it provided that "Nothing in this order shall relieve a tenant of the obligation to pay rent, nor restrict a landlord's ability to recover rent due." In other words, it made an explicit distinction between the substantive power of a landlord to set initial and substantive rents, and the procedural [CES2221.030] 97 Kristine Ridge, City Manager Sonia Carvahlo, City Attorney City of Santa Ana April 22, 2020 Page 4 of 4 ATTORNEY -CLIENT COMMUNICATION PRIVILEGED & CONFIDENTIAL In view of the foregoing, we would ask that you amend the Executive Order to remove Section 3, so as to comply with state law. Sincerely, Christopher E. Skinnell cc: Joshua Howard Victor Cao [CES2221,0301 y7 The California Apartment Association has challenged the city of Santa Ana and Contra Costa County for violating the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act. Both jurisdictions, citing tenant hardships caused by COVID-19, imposed bans on rent increases, however, these prohibitions conflict with state law. The Santa Ana rent freeze applies to all tenants and all housing, regardless of housing type or age. The Contra Costa County ban failed to exempt newer units, which is a required under Costa -Hawkins. These moves violate Costa -Hawkins, which prohibits local governments from imposing rent control on single-family hones and condominiums and on apartments built after 1995. CAA sent this letter to the city of Santa Ana, asking that it amend the executive order imposing the rent freeze so that it complies with Costa -Hawkins. The association also has sent a similar letter to Contra Costa County. The association recognizes that tenants are facing financial difficulties because of the pandemic and has encouraged its members to voluntarily forgo rent increases during this difficult time. For more information, see CAAs Safe at Home Guidelines. SHARETHIS: 00 `lae�w`s C h"i" orange Caunty.. SUBSCRIBE Learn more about the rental housing industry NEWEST POSTS Two Bay Area Jurisdictions freeze rents but include CAA input May 1, 2020 CAA condemns talk of May 1 rent strikes May 1, 2020 CAA form of the month: The Pet Addendum Mav 1, 2020 m c O LM a I CL Ln � L 0 a=i ru { u E 0_ ro iu N o0 c Q, c o o Tj aJ c 41 C > LU o+�.� L U E 01 ro _ u C N 0 a ro fU 4— 0 L v Qt = a L (IJ � m E 0 4— a) 0 W L ra 0) 0 0 m IA Cm (Ij ru .9C of 4-1 ® J ro N m 0 m p� � Q1 C _ .E OO i7 v O to W 4- 4a C L U C ai aJ E a' 0 0 tf C d aJ E Q fu aJ a 0 >1 Q LnQ m`% M 0 0 Ln a O C GJ QJ c 0 TJ 4--aJ o - F (6 s N 4- x W m Ln 0 C uj ®I —JD fn l Salas, Diana From: Ed Masterson <ed.masterson@cox.net> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 4:52 PM To: eComment Subject: Subject: Rescind the Rent Freeze Executive Order Dear City Clerk: I am opposed to Santa Ana's executive order mandating a citywide rent freeze. As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am working with my tenants who have been affected by the COVID-19 emergency, but this rent freeze goes too far. The city's executive order is clearly in violation of the statewide Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act. It is written to apply to all rental properties in Santa Ana and assumes that all renters have been impacted by COVID-19 without requiring any evidence to be provided. Rental -housing providers still need to keep up with their mortgage, property tax, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to rescind Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2-2020 and ensure the city's compliance with state law. Sincerely, Ed & Cathy Masterson U Salas, Diana From: Kumi Maxson <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 5:03 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa is Ana Residents! Sincerely, Kumi Maxson kumimaxson@gmail.com 205 Pearl St Santa Cruz, California 95060 41 �0" Salas, Diana From: jessennya hernandez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 5:22 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Rt'o Ana Residents! Sincerely, Jessennya Hernandez jessennya hernandez jhl2@illinois.edu 928 burr street corona, California 92882 f'0`� Salas, Diana From: Sebastian Mata <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 5:24 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Sebastian Mate sebastianmt3@gmail.com 2129 S Center St Apt B Santa Ana, California 92704 L© \ Salas, Diana From: Marilyn Ruiz <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 5:41 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 102. Ana Residents! Sincerely, Marilyn Ruiz rmarilyn477@gmail.com 1330 N. Bush St. Apt. 33 Santa Ana, California 92701 6c 7' Salas, Diana From: Gagandeep Mann <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 6:09 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa to 3 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Gagandeep Mann ggkmann@gmail.com 1218 N state college blvd apt 151 Anaheim , California 92886 5 Salas, Diana To: Iocampo780@gmail.com Subject: RE: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo — Punto 60A de la agenda translation Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, From: Litzi Ocampo [mailto:info@sg.actionnetwork.org] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 6:41 PM To: eComment <ecomment@santa-ana.org> Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo — Punto 60A de la agenda w°A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) as una pandemic mundial, qua amenaza social y econ6micamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad as de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen an hogares multifamiliares y viven en hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambi6n sabemos que un gran numero de familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atenci6n madica. Debido a esto, reconocemos to vulnerable que es nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiera y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Mas alarmante aun, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente an riesgo de perder la vida. Los casos confirmados de COVID-19 en el Condado de Orange han ido creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 casos confirmados hasta el momento (a partir del 05/01120). Una gran parte de las personas en California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y por to tanto no podr6n pagar el alquiler. Mas de 3 millones de personas en California han solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange ha reportado mas de 13,200 p6rdidas de empleos. Estos son n6meros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que las personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un perfodo de seis meses mientras que tambi6n experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente pars aquellos que han acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a los cuales regresar, han sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles para los beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible para los residentes ponerse al dfa con el alquiler. Si los residentes en Santa Ana no reciben una expansi6n de la congelaci6n de renta ya an vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores para los residentes, incluyendo la perdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes an Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos an un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes como oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de familias trabajadoras sean expuestas a la p6rdida de sus viviendas. Especfficamente, les pedimos que mantengan y extiendan la congelaci6n de rentas hasta seis meses despu6s de que se levante la orden de emergencia. iPor favor, ACTUEN AHORA para proteger a los residentes de Santa Ana! Sinceramente, 0\ Litzi Ocampo locampo780ftmail.com 512 N. Porter St. Apt. 315 Santa Ana , California 92701 104 Salas, Diana From: Marianna Baker <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 7:00 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05101/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa iOs Ana Residents! Sincerely, Marianna Baker bbidesign@cox.net 10 Misty Shadow Irvine, California 92603 o l Salas, Diana From: Julia Araiza <j4art1@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 7:03 PM To: eComment Subject: Opposed to rent freeze From: Julia Araiza <14art1(crDgmail.com> Subject: Opposed to rent freeze Date: May 4, 2020 at 3:46:18 PM PDT To: eComment(a)santa-ana.oq Dear City Council Member: I am opposed to Santa Ana's executive order mandating a citywide rent freeze. As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am working with my tenants who have been affected by the COVID-19 emergency, but this rent freeze goes too far. The city's executive order is clearly in violation of the statewide Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act. It is written to apply to all rental properties in Santa Ana and assumes that all renters have been impacted by COVID-19 without requiring any evidence to be provided. Rental -housing providers still need to keep up with their mortgage, property tax, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to rescind Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2-2020 and ensure the city's compliance with state law. Sincerely, Julia Araiza Multi Family Property Owner Member of Apartment Association of Orange County )OG Salas, Diana From: Jo Jo <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 7:14 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05101/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 10I Ana Residents! Sincerely, Jo Jo Jo madjo365@gmail.com 9683 Stonecrest Blvd San Diego, California 92123 Salas, Diana From: Vanessa Charco <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 7:38 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 101 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Vanessa Charco charcovanessa44@gmail.com 4826 W. McFadden Ave Apt 47 Santa Ana , California 92704 Salas, Diana To: orellj39@yahoo.com Subject: RE: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo — Punto 60A de la agenda translation Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, From: Alex Orellana [mailto:info@sg.actionnetwork.org] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 7:51 PM To: eComment <ecomment@santa-ana.org> Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo— Punto 60A de la agenda 101 Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) as una pandemia mundial, que amenaza social y econ6micamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad es de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen an hogares multifamiliares y viven en hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambien sabemos que un gran nOmero de familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atenci6n medica. Debido a esto, reconocemos to vulnerable que as nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financ!era y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Mas alarmante aun, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente an riesgo de perder la vida. Los casos confirmados de COVID-19 an el Condado de Orange ban ido creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 casos confirmados hasta el momento (a partir del 05/01/20). Una gran parte de las personas en California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y por to tanto no podran pagar el alquiler. Mas de 3 millones de personas en California han solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange ha reportado mas de 13,200 perdidas de empleos. Estos son numeros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que las personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un per!odo de seis meses mientras que tambien experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente para aquellos que ban acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a los cuales regresar, han sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles para los beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible pare los residentes ponerse al dia con el alquiler. Si los residentes en Santa Ana no reciben una expansion de la congelaci6n de renta ya an vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores para los residentes, incluyendo la perdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes en Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos an un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes como oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de familias trabajadoras sean expuestas a la perdida de sus viviendas. Especificamente, les pedimos que mantengan y extiendan la congelaci6n de rentas hasta seis meses despues de que se levante la orden de emergencia. iPor favor, ACTOEN AHORA para proteger a los residentes de Santa Ana! Sinceramente, Alex Orellana orelli39Cdyahoo.com 1600 E. 17th st apart. 2A Santa Ana 92705 Santa Ana, California 92705 [0(1 Salas, Diana To: antoniahernandez@yahoo.com Subject: RE: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo — Punto 60A de la agenda translation Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, From: Antonia Hernandez [mailto:info@sg.actionnetworl<.org] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 7:55 PM To: eComment <ecomment@santa-ana.org> Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo — Punto 60A de la agenda 110 Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) es una pandemia mundial, qua amenaza social y econ6micamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad es de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen en hogares multifamiliares y viven en hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambien sabemos que un gran numero de familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atenci6n medica. Debido a esto, reconocemos to vulnerable que es nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiers y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Ws alarmante a6n, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente en riesgo de perder la vida. Los casos confirmados de COVID-19 en el Condado de Orange han ido creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 casos confirmados hasta el momento (a partir del 05/01120). Una gran parte de las personas en California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y por to tanto no podran pagar el alquiler. Ws de 3 millones de personas en California ban solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange ha reportado mas de 13,200 perdidas de empleos. Estos son numeros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que las personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un periodo de seis meses mientras que tambien experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente para aquellos que han acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a los cuales regresar, ban sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles para los beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible para los residentes ponerse al dia con el alquiler. Si los residentes en Santa Ana no reciben una expansi6n de la congelac!6n de renta ya en vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores para los residentes, incluyendo la perdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes en Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos en un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes como oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de familias trabajadoras sean expuestas a la perdida de sus viviendas. Especificamente, les pedimos que mantengan y extiendan to congelaci6n de rentas hasta seis meses despues de que se levante la orden de emergencia. iPor favor, ACTOEN MORA para proteger a los residentes de Santa Ana! Sinceramente, Antonia Hernandez antoniahernandezaa.yahoo.com 309 S. garnsey st. Apartamento F Santa Ana, California 92701 ljd Salas, Diana From: Harold D. Baker <harold.baker@aleks.com> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 7:59 PM To: eComment Subject: Rent freeze Maintain and expand the rent freeze. Thank you! Biff Baker Sent from my Android phone using Symantec TouchDown (www.symantec.com) This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is private, confidential, attorney -client privileged, or otherwise legally protected from disclosure. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it from your system without copying it and notify the sender by reply e-mail so that our records can be corrected. )1) Salas, Diana From: Esmeralda Ortega <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 8:10 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 1 \� Ana Residents! Sincerely, Esmeralda Ortega Esmeralda Ortega esmeeo@yahoo.com 1122 W Glenwood PL Santa Ana , California 92707 M, Salas, Diana From: Alan Calderon <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 8:46 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 113 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Alan Calderon acald25@gmail.com 5425 Roosevelt Ave Santa Ana , California 92703 i+) Salas, Diana From: Brenda Cruz <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 9:23 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far as of 05/01/20. A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including housel essness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 1H Ana Residents! Sincerely, A concerned citizen Brenda Cruz bycruz99@gmail.com 2424 N Tustin Ave Santa Ana , California 92705 �L� Salas, Diana From: Michelle <sundvl89@aol.com> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 9:29 PM To: eComment Subject: Revoking Existing Renter Protections Will Put Santa Ana Residents at Risk: Please extend these protections. No more than ever, we need to work together to help those who are in need and less fortunate. Now is not the time to reward those in a better position then those starting out fresh, starting anew or in need of a hand. Michelle Singleton "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." — Eleanor Roosevelt i lS Salas, Diana From: Brenda Benites <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 9:38 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Brenda Brenda Benites bbeni002@ucr.edu 700 W La Veta Ave Orange, California 92868 U Salas, Diana From: Heidi Cohen <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 9:58 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa W] Ana Residents! Sincerely, Rabbi Heidi Cohen Heidi Cohen heidi@ravima.com 3792 Hemingway Ave. Irvine, California 92606 11l Salas, Diana From: Diana Avila <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 9:59 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 1vl� Ana Residents! Sincerely, Diana Avila cloverlover14@gmail.com 2020 south broadway Santa ana, California 92606 Iq Salas, Diana To: eliatoval7@gmail.com Subject: RE: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo — Punto 60A de la agenda translation Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, From: Ella Tovar [mailto:info@sg.actionnetwork.org] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 10:10 PM To: eComment <ecomment@santa-ana.org> Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo — Punto 60A de la agenda 1 `cq Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) es una pandemia mundial, qua amenaza social y econ6micamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad es de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente !nquilinos, residen an hogares multifamiliares y viven en hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambien sabemos qua un gran numero de familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atenci6n medica. Debido a esto, reconocemos Io vulnerable que es nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiera y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Ws alarmante a6n, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente en riesgo de perder la vida. Los casos confirmados de COVID-19 en el Condado de Orange han !do crec!endo constantemente, con 2,636 casos confirmados hasta el momento (a partir del 05/01/20). Una gran parte de las personas en California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y por to tanto no podran pagar el alquiler. Mas de 3 millones de personas en California han solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange ha reportado mas de 13,200 perdidas de empleos. Estos son numeros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que las personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un periodo de seis meses mientras que tambien experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente para aquellos que han acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a los cuales regresar, han sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles para los beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible pare los residentes ponerse al dia con el alquiler. Si los residentes en Santa Ana no reciben una expans!6n de la congelaci6n de renta ya en vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores para los residentes, incluyendo la perdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes en Santa Ana seaan desplazados, y puestos en un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes Como oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de familias trabajadoras sean expuestas a la perdida de sus viviendas. Especificamente, lea pedimos que mantengan y extiendan la congelaci6n de rentas hasta seis meses despues de que se levante la orden de emergencia. {Por favor, ACTUEN AHORA para proteger a los residentes de Santa Ana! Sinceramente, Elia Tovar el iatova 17(a) o m a i I. com 705 E chestnut Santa Ana, California 92701 Salas, Diana From: PilarAnorve <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 10:44 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa J?J Ana Residents! Sincerely, Pilar Anorve pilyanorve@gmail.com 13936 Taft St. Garden Grove,Ca, California 92843 1�10 Ana Residents! Sincerely, tahil.sharma@laverne.edu 336 Stanford Drive Claremont, California 91711 yti� Salas Diana From: tahil.sharma@laverne.edu <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 11:09 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05101/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa IV Salas, Diana From: Isabelle Lopez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 11:14 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05101/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness. and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa �zL Ana Residents! Sincerely, Isabelle Lopez isabellelopez7028@gmail.com 702 S Raitt st. Apt 8 Santa Ana, California 92704 a2 u Salas, Diana To: rosariocaspeta@gmail.com Subject: RE: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo — Punto 60A de la agenda translation Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, From: Rosario Caspeta [mailto:info@sg.actionnetwork.org] Sent: Monday, May 04, 202011:18 PM To: eComment <ecomment@santa-ana.org> Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo — Punto 60A de la agenda 113 Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) es una pandemia mundial, que amenaza social y econ6micamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad es de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen en hogares multifamiliares y viven on hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambi6n sabemos que un gran numero de familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a to atenci6n medica. Debido a esto, reconocemos Io vulnerable que as nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiera y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Mas alarmante aon, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente an riesgo de perder la vida. Los casos confirmados de COVID-19 en el Condado de Orange han ido creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 casos confirmados hasta el momento (a partir del 06/01/20). Una gran parte de las personas en California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y por to tanto no podr6n pagar el alquiler. Ws de 3 millones de personas en California han solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange ha reportado mas de 13,200 p6rdidas de empleos. Estos son numeros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que las personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un periodo de seis meses mientras que tambi6n experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente para aquellos que han acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a los cuales regresar, han sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles para los beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible para los residentes ponerse al d!a con el alquiler. Si los residentes en Santa Ana no reciben una expansion de la congelaci6n de renta ya en vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores para los residentes, incluyendo to p6rdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes en Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos en un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes como oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de familias trabajadoras sean expuestas a la p6rdida de sus viviendas. Espec!ficamente, lea pedimos que mantengan y extiendan to congelaci6n de rentas hasta seis meses despu6s de que se levante la orden de emergencia. iPor favor, ACTOEN AHORA pare proteger a los residentes de Santa Ana! Sinceramente, a�5 Rosario Caspeta rosa riocasaeta(u)gmai I.com 620 W Washington Ave Santa Ana, California 92706-3836 \z 3 Salas, Diana From: Tenants United Santa Ana TUSA <tenantsunitedsantaana@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 12:07 AM To: Pulido, Miguel; Sarmiento, Vicente; Villegas, Juan; Iglesias, Cecilia; Penaloza, David; Bacerra, Phil; Solorio, Jose; Ridge, Kristine Cc: eComment Subject: Protect and Expand the Santa Ana Rent Freeze Attachments: 20200502 Sign On Letter to City Council.pdf Dear Mayor Pulido and City Council of Santa Ana, Thank you for the protections you enacted for renters in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Following -up on our ask from two weeks ago, attached is a new letter signed by TU Santa Ana and 29 other community organizations and community churches. We continue to call on you to extend the rent freeze for six months beyond the date which statewide emergency orders are lifted. This will ensure that tenants do not fall further behind on rent repayment and will match the timeline of the city's eviction moratorium. If tenants face rent increases during the repayment period, it will make it impossible for them to also pay their current rent and past due rent, and many WILL lose their homes. This rent freeze is not permanent. A temporary rent freeze should not have long-term economic impacts on property value. However, the rescinding of the rent freeze WOULD have long-term negative health and economic impacts on Santa Ana's majority renter population. We urge city council to prioritize the housing stability of Santa Ana renters during the pandemic and during the period of recovery immediately after the pandemic. The City of Santa Ana has been granted emergency powers under its City Municipal Code and Charter to make decisions necessary to protect the health and safety of its residents. We believe that it is in the elected official's best interest to protect the well-being of its constituents, and we insist that keeping the rent freeze intact does that. We are advocating for the families who have lost income, or are working on the frontlines for minimum wage, risking themselves and their families becoming ill. It is unfair for them to be fighting a mountain of debt or homelessness while recovering from the pandemic. Please let us know how we may be of continued assistance to ensure residents receive all they need to remain healthy and housed during this crisis and for a long time thereafter. We look forward to continued work and success together. Sincerely, Tenants United Santa Ana i71q nA C��� 110`�� I✓ Iglesia de la Comunidad Santa Ana PNxs U4 ^ [WO �� AT� TENANTS TOGETHER * Aca_ss , c'� SA4A ANA e UNITED METHODIST CHURCH fiyy� CHIRLA lbtlerfnllb } ' A i110.1t ..-- a nnooro,l, h" �4 ,�favr/! Buading Healthy imm „m nnu church d,[ l�aCi51f1�1 ! t'i. J 675 Communities Tenants United Santa Ana et al. Sent via email Santa Ana, California May 5, 2020 City Council of the City of Santa Ana Santa Ana, California Re: Municipal Executive Order No. 2-2020 Dear Mayor Miguel Pulido and the City Council Members of Santa Ana, On behalf of residents of Santa Ana, Tenants United Santa Ana, and organizations signed below, we want to acknowledge and extend our thanks for your response to our demands on implementing local housing protections for residents in Santa Ana. Your actions have included establishing an eviction moratorium for those financially impacted by COVID-19 and enacting a rent freeze on rent increases until May 3lst or until Governor Newsome's emergency order is lifted. However, these protections are not enough. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing with approximately 2,819 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/04/20)I. We must do better to ensure Santa Ana residents are protected from experiencing financial insecurity, displacement, and homelessness. Therefore, we demand that you maintain and extend the enacted emergency rent freeze. This will mitigate the detrimental housing consequences this pandemic has had and will continue to have for Santa Ana residents. As community volunteers in Santa Ana, we have been directly responding to the pressing needs of residents, even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Since April Ist, Tenants United Santa Ana has experienced an increased call volume of over 1700% from Santa Ana residents regarding landlord tenant issues. Residents are financially unequipped to weather these economic disruptions with a large share of city residents being extremely low-income renters and of mixed -status households. We cannot expect for people to be able to pay back overdue and current rent during a six-month period while potentially experiencing rent increases at the same time. Santa Ana residents have jobs where remote work and paid sick leave benefits do not exist. We are also more likely to be uninsured and have less access to adequate health care. In addition, many residents in Santa Ana are ineligible for federal COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented or are married to someone who is undocumented2. Additionally, with one in every five eligible workers filing for unemployment claims, no resident should be faced with the decision and stress of either paying the rent or paying for food. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic; susceptible to experiencing financial precarity, housing displacement and particularly at risk of losing their lives. The Executive Order which the council enacted, has ensured that tenants — residential and commercial — are able to confidently push back against unscrupulous attempts by landlords to unlawfully increase rents or attempt illegal evictions during this pandemic. We dispute the claims of the California Apartment Association or any parties against the rent freeze portion of the order therein. We maintain that the current moratorium on rent increases, also referred to as a rent freeze, is not in conflict with restrictions imposed by state laws regarding the applicability of local rent control ordinancesa during this pandemic. We have come to understand that state and local city charters grant powers to elected officials in times of public health emergencies such as the current COVID-19 related epochs. Therefore, we call on the Santa Ana City Council to do the following: Allow the rent freeze to extend for six months beyond the date which statewide emergency orders are lifted. This will ensure that tenants do not fall further behind on rent repayment and will match the timeline of the city's eviction moratorium. Continue to exercise its power in the interest of maintaining housing stability in Santa Ana, tenants, and conummity at large. Use any and all ability to create public media to ensure that landlords in Santa Ana make no attempt to evict, harass, bully, or otherwise render tenants' lives more difficult in our current pandemic. This will ensure that tenants can remain confident in their rights to remain in Santa Ana. Assert and defend tenants' right to quiet enjoyment of their homes and rented units. Landlords claim to operate the business of providing housing as a service. As such, landlords are required to provide certain standards of living under the law throughout the duration of the tenancya. This holds that landlords shall be required to maintain properties up to code and respect tenants whether a temporary rent freeze and eviction moratorium is in effect or not. Without this, residents are forced to live in conditions detrimental to their physical and mental health. As elected members by constituents of Santa Ana, we have faith that you will address our concerns and recommendations. While we continue to ask the City of Santa Ana to do more to protect its residents from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic by adopting stronger protections (e.g. a complete eviction moratorium and longer repayment periods), at a minimum, the City of Santa Ana should maintain and expand its current Executive Order No. 2-2020 regarding rent freezes. Santa Ana was one of the first California cities bold enough to protect its residents when the COVID-19 pandemic began. We urge that the Council remain bold enough to ensure that residents stay protected against unjust and immoral actions by corporate absentee Santa Ana landlords who are motivated purely by profit. We do not believe in allowing these types of groups and interests to hold weight in our communities. We believe that the value of our city comes from residents and we invite the Council to Itiq uphold this belief with us as well. Your actions on Tuesday May 5th shall serve to define your tenure as elected officials. Sincerely, Tenants United Santa Ana Unities Homeschool Cooperative Resilience Orange County Calle Sullivan En Acci6n Latino Health Access CLUE (Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice) Cooperacion Santa Ana Vecindario Lacy En Acci6n Chicanos Unidos Tenants Together The Mix Academy, Santa Ana United Steelworkers Local 675 Resilience Orange County Public Law Center VietRise CRECE, Santa Ana Santa Ana Active Streets (SAAS) El Centro Cultural de M6xico Thrive Santa Ana CLT Santa Ana Building Healthy Communities Orange County Interfaith Network Santa Ana United Methodist Church Iglesia de La Comunidad, Santa Ana CHIRLA Episcopal Church of the Messiah, Santa Ana The Kennedy Commission St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Tustin St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Fullerton Fairview Community Church, Costa Mesa Tapestry Unitarian Universalist Church [1] OC Health Care Agency; County of Orange, CA COVID-19 Case Count May 1st, 2020 [2] These U.S. citizens won't get coronavirus stimulus checks — because their spouses are immigrants, Jenny Jarvie, April 20, 2020, Los Angeles Times, https://www.latimes.coin/world-nation/story/2020-04-20/u-s-citizens-coronavirus-stimulus-cheeks- spouses-immigrants [3] Coronavirus unemployment: One of every five California workers has lost a job, George Avalos, Orange County Register, April 30ro, 2020, https://www.ocregister.con /2020/04/30/coronavirus-unemployment-one-five-califomia-workers- unemployment-job-layoff-economy-tech-retail-hotel-restarvant-construction-newsom/ [4] Birkenfeld v. City of Berkeley, 17 Cal. 3d 129,158 (1976). See also Nebbia v. New York, 291 U.S. 502,539 (1934) ("Price control, like any other form of regulation, is unconstitutional only if arbitrary, discriminatory, or demonstrably irrelevant to the policy the legislature is free to adopt, and hence an unnecessary and unwarranted interference with individual liberty.") [5] Berman v. Parker, 348 U.S. 26, 32 (1954) [6] See Green v. Superior Court (1974) 10 CAM 616 (duty and covenant to keep rental unit habitable throughout the entire rental period); Civil Code § 1927 (providing tenants with implied covenant of quiet enjoyment). See also Civil Code § 1941.3 (CA landlords must properly secure all common areas of the rental property and secure tenants' units with deadbolts and window locks); Civil Code § 1714 (Landlords have a duty to take reasonable steps to protect tenants from the foreseeable criminal acts from another.) Salas, Diana To: gabrielagarcia67@yahoo.com Subject: RE: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo — Punto 60A de la agenda translation Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01120). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely From: Gabriela Garcia [mailto:info@sg.actionnetworl<.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 4:42 AM To: eComment <ecomment@santa-ana.org> Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo— Punto 60A de la agenda 125 Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) es una pandemia mundial, que amenaza social y econ6micamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad es de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen en hogares multifamil!ares y viven en hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambi6n sabemos que un gran numero de familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atenci6n med!ca. Debido a esto, reconocemos Io vulnerable que es nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiera y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Ws alarmante aun, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente en riesgo de perder la vida. Los casos confirmados de COVID-19 en el Condado de Orange han ido creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 casos confirmados hasta el momento (a partir del 05/01/20). Una gran parte de las personas an California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y por to tanto no podran pager el alquiler. Mas de 3 millones de personas en California han solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange ha reportado mas de 13,200 perdidas de empleos. Estos son numeros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que las personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un perfodo de seis meses mientras que tambien experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente para aquellos que han acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a Ios cuales regresar, han sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles para Ios beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible para Ios residentes ponerse al dfa con el alquiler. Si Ios residentes en Santa Ana no reciben una expansi6n de la congelaci6n de renta ya en vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores para los residentes, incluyendo la perdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a Is vivienda, residentes en Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos en un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes como oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de familias trabajadoras sean expuestas a la p6rdida de sus viviendas. Especfficamente, les pedimos que mantengan y extiendan la congelaci6n de rentas hasta seis meses despu6s de que se levante la orden de emergencia. iPor favor, ACTOEN MORA para proteger a Ios residentes de Santa Ana! Sinceramente, Gabriela Garcia \VS Gabriela Garcia gabrielaaarcia67 Wyahoo.com 502 E 6th St Apt 305 Santa Ana , California 92701 �0 Salas, Diana To: angelicagutierrez803@gmail.com Subject: RE: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo — Punto 60A de la agenda translation Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, From: Angelica Gutierrez [mailto:info@sg.actionnetwork.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 5:00 AM To: eComment <ecomment@santa-ana.org> Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo — Punto 60A de la agenda 170 Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) es una pandemia mundial, que amenaza social y econ6micamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad es de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen en hogares multifamiliares y viven en hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambien sabemos que un gran nomero de familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atenci6n medica. Debido a esto, reconocemos to vulnerable que es nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiera y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Mas alarmante aon, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente en riesgo de perder la vida. Los casos confirmados de COVID-19 en el Condado de Orange han ido creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 casos confirmados haste el momento (a partir del 05/01/20). Una gran parte de las personas en California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y por to tanto no podran pagar el alquiler. Ws de 3 millones de personas en California ban solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange ha reportado mas de 13,200 perdidas de empleos. Estos son nomeros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que las personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un perfodo de seis meses mientras que tambien experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente para aquellos que han acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a los cuales regresar, han sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles pare los beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible para los residentes ponerse al dfa con el alquiler. Si los residentes en Santa Ana no reciben una expansi6n de la congelaci6n de renta ya en vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores pare los residentes, incluyendo la perdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes en Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos en un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes como oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de families trabajadoras seen expuestas a la perdida de sus viviendas. Especfficamente, les pedimos que mantengan y extiendan la congelaci6n de rentas hasta seis meses despues de que se levante la orden de emergencia. iPor favor, ACTUEN AHORA para proteger a los residentes de Santa Ana! Sinceramente, IL6 Angelica Gutierrez angel icagutierrez803@g mail.com 317 E la palma #16 Anaheim, California 92801 WO Salas, Diana From: Yvette Nunez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 6:43 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa l27 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Yvette Nunez ynunez@choc.org 4900 R Champman Ave Unit18 Orange, California 92869 121 Salas, Diana From: Soto, Daniel Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 8:52 AM To: eComment Subject: FW: Item 60 A From: Maria Ceja <ceja.maria95@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 8:45 AM To: Pulido, Miguel <MPulido@santa-ana.org> Cc: Penaloza, David <DPenaloza@santa-ana.org>; Solorio, Jose <JSolorio@Santa-ana.org>; Iglesias, Cecilia <Clglesias@santa-ana.org>; Villegas, Juan <JVillegas@santa-ana.org>; Bacerra, Phil <pbacerra@santa-ana.org>; Sarmiento, Vicente <VSarmiento@santa-ana.org> Subject: Item 60 A Good Morning Mayor Pulido, First and foremost, I hope you are doing well. My name is Maria, I am a Santa Ana native who is an active Santa Ana volunteer tenant rights advocate and tenant counselor. Throughout the period of the Safe at Home order, there have been an increased number of calls received by the Tenant Rights hotline I volunteer with. Many of these calls are from tenants all over the city that have confided in me to express their experiences throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, their fears, and worries of not being able to pay rent. I believe it is extremely important to state that the tenants I have worked with have almost all mentioned that it is not because they do not want to pay the rent, but because they can't because of job loss in their household, loss of income, and having to stay home with their children due to school closures. I am here to express my concerns over item 60A that will be discussed at tonight's city council meeting. If the council decides to rescind this emergency order of the temporary rent freeze, there will be severe negative impacts. One predicted impact is the increased number of evictions that could potentially correlate with an increased number of homelessness in our community after the eviction moratorium is lifted. I am sure you are aware of the increased number of job loss at the national and local scale. In Orange County, the reported number of job loss has documented over 13,200 jobs lost due to the pandemic in March alone. In our present state, one can be confident in predicting that number was significantly larger in April, and will continue to rise. How are unemployed tenants expected to face a potential rent increase in the middle of global pandemic? How is it ethical to expect tenants to choose between essential needs like food and shelter? As mayor, you are aware that Santa Ana has a high number of extremely low-income and low-income populations who were already struggling before the pandemic. Now their situation has intensified at an exacerbated rate. Put yourself in their shoes. A number of Santa Ana tenants have trusted me with their experiences. They have confided in me, many stating that their landlords have forced an inordinate repayment plan on them without explaining to them the eviction moratorium or even making them aware it even exists. Many have also expressed to me that their landlords are threatening them with eviction. I have heard from other tenant counselors, tenants they have helped have been kicked out of the room they rent because they incapable of paying all of the rent. Is this what the apartment association calls "working with tenants"? I strongly believe that tenants should not face a rent increase in the middle of a pandemic. I also believe that the rent freeze be extended to match the eviction moratorium's 6-month repayment period. It is evident that we are 12,y not going to back to what life was before the pandemic any time soon. Not all of us are going to be able to return to our jobs as fast as we would like, especially not by the time the eviction moratorium is lifted. Tenants should not struggle with the additional weight of financial pressures like facing a rent increase while paying of the debt they accumulated because they were incapable of paying their rent between March 17th to May 31 st. They are going to have to pay back that debt as best they can, even if many will not even have jobs yet. We need to protect the Santa Ana tenant community. We need to put them first, not the interests of the California Apartment Association. Take care, Maria Ceja at Orozco, Norma From: Soto, Daniel Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 3:21 PM To: eComment Subject: FW: Item 60A From: Maria Ceja <ceja.maria95@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 9:11 AM To: Bacerra, Phil <pbacerra@santa-ana.org> Cc: Pulido, Miguel <MPulido@santa-ana.org>; Penaloza, David <DPenaloza@santa-ana.org>; Solorio, Jose <JSolorio@santa-ana.org>; Iglesias, Cecilia <Clglesias@santa-ana.org>; Villegas, Juan <JVillegas@santa-ana.org>; Sarmiento, Vicente <VSarmiento@santa-ana.org> Subject: Item 60A Good Morning Councilmember Becerra, I hope you are doing well. My name is Maria, I am a Santa Ana native and a volunteer tenant rights advocate and tenant counselor. I have had the privilege in being able to help many tenants that live within your ward. In the middle of f these tenants have received 3-day eviction notice, have been harassed by their landlord, received a notice to vacate, have been singled out by their landlord, are scared of losing their home because of not being able to pay rent, and are scared of what is next. They are human beings and most have not been informed of their protections under the eviction moratorium and rent freeze. What concerns me being a volunteer for a tenant rights hotline are the people who don't call, who are unaware of their protections, and the unreported traumatic experiences Santa Ana tenants are facing. Overall, many tenants have the inclination to pay the rent, but the reality is that because of job loss, loss of income, and reducing their hours to care for their children have left them unable to do so. I am here to ask that when the council discusses item 60 A, you consider these tenants. Many tenants who do not have a voice in these decisions that are determining their fate. We are all uncertain of what is to come, but we are all aware we are still in the beginning stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tenants should not face rent increases in the middle of a global pandemic that has exacerbated financial insecurities, especially for extremely low-income and low-income populations. I truly believe that the Santa Ana rent freeze should be extended to match the eviction moratorium's repayment period. Tenants should not face a rent increase while paying back the rent they were unable to pay between March 17th and May 31 st. Many tenants were put of out work because of the Safe at Home orders and for their own well being to flatten the curve. No one is 100% certain when their jobs will be available to them again. Everyone deserves the security of knowing that they can calmly pay back the rent at the best of their abilities without the weight of a rent increase. It is time to put the Santa Ana tenant community first, especially the community you were elected to represent. Their wellbeing is more important than the interests of the California Apartment Association. Take care, Maria Salas, Diana From: Yoselinda Mendoza <yoselinda.mendoza@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 9:19 AM To: eComment Subject: Temporary Rent freeze (RE agenda item 60A) REGARDING AGENDA ITEM 60A Dear City Council, First, I want to thank you for addressing the demands pushed forward bythe communityby enacting an eviction moratorium and a rent freeze. Your local responses are making direct impacts to Santa Ana residents, alleviating financial insecurity, preventing housing displacement, and lowering the risk of the COVID-19 spread. But now I am deeply alarmed after learning that the rent freeze in place to protect Santa Ana residents is in jeopardy of being removed. It is erroneous, unjust, and does not reflect what our community needs and deserves. It does the exact opposite; the removal of the rent freeze greatly threatens our community— reversing the very things we are trying to minimize (which I hope continue to be your goals too) such as financial insecurity, housing displacement, and death. I urge you all to keep the rent freeze and extend it to match the eviction moratorium. As you all are aware, the COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating financial impacts for residents in Santa Ana, in large part due to structural inequities and the lack of institutional support that has left our community susceptible to great risk in experiencing the negative impacts of a disaster event such as COVID-19. Many are renters and severely rent burdened. Many are undocumented and don't qualify for COVID-19 relief benefits. Many have lost their jobs or have experienced a reduction of work hours, leaving them unable to pay rent. It is cruel to have an unrealistic expectation for people to experience rent increases while they are trying to catch up with the debt they have been accumulating. Not only is it impossible, it is dangerous to ask residents to choose between getting things that maintain their livelihoods like buying essential things like food or maintaining a roof over their head. It is inhumane. I also wanted to be sure to address some of claims stated bythe California Apartment Association and others: • Governments' short-term response of COVID49 does not consider impacts on housing providers: It is important to note that • The city s rent control order violates state law.. In a statewide and national emergency, emergency orders such as the rent freeze supersede state laws like Costa Hawkins. • The manner of approval violates city charter and public oversight Under the city municipal code and charter, the City of Santa Ana has emergency powers to snake decisions to protect the health and safety of its residents, including having the power to enact a rent freeze. • Some of the correspondence has also made implications that the rent free.Ze is long-term: The rent freeze is temporary and not a cancellation of rent, meaning that residents eventually would have to repay rent that is due. With the acknowledgement of the municipal powers you carry and the pressing needs of the community, you have the power to decrease the negative financial impacts for Santa Ana residents. You have the power to minimize housing displacement and the risk of being houseless for Santa Ana residents. You have the power to reduce the deadly impact of COVID-19 for Santa Ana residents. As a Santa Ana resident, born and raised, I hold you accountable as an elected official to make decisions for the community. I trust you will make the only just decision which is implementing a moratorium on rent increases (rent freeze) during the COVID-19 emergency declarations, and for at least 6 months thereafter. Best, Yoselinda IZ9 Salas, Diana To: ajimenez@giveforasmile.org Subject: RE: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo - Punto 60A de la agenda Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, From: ajimenez@giveforasmile.org [mailto:info@sg.actionnetwork.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 9:32 AM To: eComment <ecomment@santa-ana.org> Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo- Punto 60A de la agenda V"A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) es una pandemia mundial, qua amenaza social y econ6micamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad es de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen en hogares multifamiliares y viven en hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambien sabemos que un gran n6mero de familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atenci6n medica. Debido a esto, reconocemos to vulnerable que es nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiera y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Ws alarmante aun, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente on riesgo de perder la vida. Los casos confirmados de COVID-19 en el Condado de Orange ban ido creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 casos confirmados hasta el momento (a partir del 05/01/20). Una gran parte de las personas en California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y por to tanto no podran pagar el alquiler. Mas de 3 millones de personas on California ban solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange ha reportado mas de 13,200 perdidas de empleos. Estos son numeros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que las personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un periodo de seis meses mientras que tambien experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente para aquellos que han acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a los cuales regresar, ban sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles para los beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible para los residentes ponerse al d!a con el alquiler. Si los residentes en Santa Ana no reciben una expansion de la congelaci6n de renta ya en vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores para los residentes, incluyendo la perdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes en Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos en un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes Como oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de familias trabajadoras sean expuestas a la perdida de sus viviendas. Especificamente, les pedimos que mantengan y extiendan la congelaci6n de rentas hasta seis meses despues de que se levante la orden de emergencia. iPor favor, ACTOEN AHORA para proteger a los residentes de Santa Ana! Sinceramente, 1�0 al i menez(Wgiveforasmile.org 1811 W. Katella Ave. Ste 111, giveforasmile.org Anaheim, California 92804 \'�O Salas, Diana From: Lizeth Tapia <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 9:59 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 131 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Lizeth Tapia lizpotator@gmail.com 1033 W Bishop St Apt 13 Santa Ana , California 92703 Feb 16 07 09:14a Wayne Carr 714-964-6273 p.1 May 4, 2020 Attn: Santa Ana City Council Members RE: Rent Control Measures Dear City Council Members I'd like to give you a "ground floor" prospective on controlling rentals or reducing rents. As an owner of 5 four unit buildings in Orange County for 30+ years let me give you an idea how a rent control bill currently at the State level would effect me. That particular bill ABS28 in part would reduce rents by 25%. This is not your bill but what it does is a good example. Comparing my 2019 P&L on my rentals, a 25% rent reduction would take my net rental profit from $114,069 to $4,669. Considering that the $114,069 represents 80% of my total annual income, it would be devastating. As a long time landlord, I've always work with any tenant who had a cash flow problem, My job is to keep tenants, not kick them out. Many of my tenants 10 years. have been with me for I urge the City Council to "tread lightly" in trying to control a segment of the economy. Sincerely' f� Y eG rGr Ct. 18867 San Felipe St., Fountain Valley, Ca., 92706 E: wearr777@msn.com Cell: 714-746-0332 Orozco, Norma From: Jo Jo <angelamarietulio1@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 10:36 AM To: eComment Subject: AGENDA ITEM 60A - EXTEND RENT FREEZE Hello, My name is Angela Tulio, I am deeply concerned for everyone struggling to pay rent right now. Personally, I am facing an accumulated debt after the emergency orders are soon lifted and I cannot trust that my landlord cares enough about the circumstances to not raise the rent. I am still unemployed because I am apart of the hospitality sector, and I've seen so many others in my similar situation. It is extremely unjust for so many of us renters to face a rent increase and debt during what should be a time of compassion. I am appalled at the lack of morality being displayed by the California Apartment Association and all landlords who seek to continue profit off of our already insecure housing as renters. What other than a global pandemic would be enough reason to demonstrate basic decency? If landlords are distressed about their mortgages they should be making complaints to their banks and state government, not with renters who are more if not equally impacted. Not only do I want to see city council prioritize people for once, but I want to see the rent freeze extended 6 months after May31 st so that we have a real chance at paying our debts without ending up in a cycle of senseless debt. If the city does not act now, the city is implicitly allowing the displacement of hundreds of renters across the city. Thank you. Orozco, Norma From: Valeria Esqueda <va1eria.esqueda97@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 10:45 AM To: eComment Subject: AGENDA ITEM 60A - EXTEND THE RENT FREEZE Hello, My name is Valeria Esqueda, I am a resident of ward 3. I am deeply concerned that city council is seeking to rescind an ordinance that finally met the needs of the most vulnerable in their community. I am disappointed and angry that it took next to nothing for Jose Solorio to side with the California Apartment Association, a group making their complaints all the way from Northern California. I am appalled at the lack of morality being displayed by the California Apartment Association and all landlords who seek to continue profit off of our already insecure housing as renters. Like many others, I am facing an accumulated debt after the emergency orders are soon lifted and I cannot trust that my landlord cares enough about the circumstances to not raise the rent. I am still unemployed because I am apart of the hospitality sector. It is extremely unjust for so many of us renters to face a rent increase and debt during what should be a time of compassion.. If landlords are distressed about their mortgages they should be making complaints to their banks and state government, not with renters who are more if not equally impacted. I want to see city council prioritize the people and extend the rent freeze 6 months after May31 st so that we have a real chance at paying off rent without ending up in a cycle of debt. It is a temporary effort of relief that could alleviate so much stress. If the city does not act now, the city is implicitly allowing the displacement of hundreds of renters across the city. Thank you. VISA 5 May 2020 Dear Mayor Pulido and City Council Member of the City of Santa Ana, The impact of COVID-19 across the globe has been nothing short of devastating. This pandemic has disrupted the social and economic lives of everyone in our country but its impact, however, is not being felt equally across the board. It is now well established that communities of color, particularly brown and black communities, are disproportionately represented in the negative effects of the current health crisis. I am writing to you as a concerned resident of Santa Ana because I see this scenario affecting my neighborhood. I urge you to demonstrate the leadership that the times demand in protecting our city's most vulnerable populations by bolstering the moratorium that was recently enacted by council. The current protections that have been passed statewide and locally are insufficient because landlords can still serve eviction notices for other non-COVID related reasons including: • Nonpayment of rent due to non-COVID related reasons • 30-day notice (not protected by AB 1482) • 60-day notice (AB 1482 protections) • 60-day notice (non AB 1482) • 3-day notices to perform or quit • 90-day notices The lack of comprehensive protections on evictions puts the lives of Santa Ana residents at significant risks in experiencing loss of housing during this pandemic. As elected officials in Santa Ana, you have the unique powerto reducethese negative economic impacts. Simply put, to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, people need homes to "shelter in place" and to follow orders of physical distancing. Stable housing is not possible if our residents are burdened with the precarity the pandemic has highlighted in theirjobs and overall livelihoods. Stable housing is also not possible without ensuring that residents in Santa Ana not only maintain housing during but also afterthis national emergency. We demand you take immediate action to enact a stronger moratorium to protect residents here in Santa Ana: • During the state of emergency, no landlord shall endeavor to evict a tenant in any of the following situations: o Nonpayment of rent o No -Fault Eviction o Eviction based upon alleged breach of covenant of an oral or a written lease or rental agreement 10 o Eviction based upon an incurable breach o Abandonment of the rental unit during the COVID-19 pandemic, or to flee domestic violence or elder abuse that may occurto a tenant during the COVID-19 pandemic. • A moratorium on the issuance and execution of writs of possession and execution while declarations of emergency related to COVID-19 are in effect, and for an appropriate period thereafter. Thank you in advance for your time and consideration. Please don't hesitate to contact me should you have any questions about my inquiry. I can be easily reached at (714)227-0213 or via e-mail at agruiz@ucdavis.edu. Kind regards, Abel Ruiz \35 �= Community Legal Aid SoCal Advocates for Justice in Orange and Los Angeles Counties May 5, 2020 Mayor Miguel Pulido City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza Santa Ana, California 92701 RE: Executive Order No. 2-2020 — Letter of Support Dear Mayor Pulido and Members of the City Council: Community Legal Aid SoCal writes in support of the City of Santa Ana's Executive Order No. 2-2020. Promoting housing stability is crucial in the face of the ongoing public health crisis and the City's Order helps ensure tenants will have a safe place to stay as long as the shelter in place order is in effect. The Rent Freeze is Necessary to Protect the Health, Safety, and Lives of Santa Ana Residents. The COVID19 crisis has disproportionately affected low income residents. Those with low incomes tend to live in more crowded conditions and are more often subject to displacement. Finding a space where they may shelter 6 feet away from others can be an impossible task. By freezing rents at their current rates, the City of Santa Ana is helping reduce the impact of this crisis on low income individuals and families by helping to ensure they will be able to afford their rent and have a safe place to live. Our organization has served the Santa Ana community for many years and we continue to serve the residents of Santa Ana during this crisis. Each day we receive calls from tenants who do not know how they will be able to pay their rent because they lost their employment due to COVID19. Unemployment Insurance may cover some of their expenses, however, if landlords are allowed to increase rents during this time, it is extremely unlikely these household will be able to keep up with their rent payments or they may have to choose between paying rent and buying life sustaining necessities such as food and medicine. The rent freeze was properly enacted because it was put in place under the City's emergency and police powers. Under the City's Municipal Code and Charter, the City may proclaim laws that are necessary to protect the health and safety of its www.communitylegalsocal.org • 2101 North Tustin Avenue, Santa Ana, CA 92705 800.834.5001 •714.571.5200 h� �= Cnmmunit Legal Aid SoCal Advocates for Justice in Orange and Los Angeles Counties ;sidents. (See Santa Ana Mun. Code & Charter §2-404.) During a time of mergency, that power is heightened under Government Code section 8634. ction provides local governments may "promulgate orders and regulations ecessary to provide for the protection of life and property." 1 Wring the current crisis, having a home where individuals and families can ractice social distancing is essential to the health, safety, and lives of Santa Ana .esidents. Rent increases often result in tenant displacement as many tenants traggle to pay their rent at their current rates. This often results in residents ecoming homeless or moving in with family or friends. The rent freeze helps nsure that residents will be able to maintain their homes and avoid displacement. The Rent Freeze does not Constitute a Taking nor is it Unconstitutional under the Contracts Clause. In Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City, (1978) 438 U.S. 104, the Court considered whether a Landmarks Act constituted a taking. Ultimately, the court held there was no taking because the law did not interfere with the present uses of the property or prevent Penn Central obtaining "reasonable return" on its investment. The same holds true here. The majority of tenants living in Santa Ana lived in their rental units before the COVID19 crisis occurred. This landlord tenant relationship will continue unaffected by the rent freeze. The present use of the property may continue. Additionally, a rent freeze will not prevent a landlord from receiving the same return on their investment before the crisis occurred. Rents will be maintained; they simply cannot be increased for a short period of time. Additionally, the Contracts Clause of the Constitution does not prohibit all interferences with contracts by the government. The Clause prohibits only a substantial impairment with contractual relationship. (See Energy Reserves Group, Inc. v. Kansas Power and Light Company, (1983) 459 U.S. 400, 411.) Once again, here, the current contracts landlords have in place with their tenants will remain in effect. The City's Order simply prevents landlords from charging tenants more than their current contracts for a short period of time. Landlords have come to expect these regulations as anti -price gauging restrictions are commonplace in the declaration of a State of Emergency. (See Penal Code §396.) www.communitylegalsocal.org • 2101 North Tustin Avenue, Santa Ana, CA 92705 800.834.5001 •714.571.5200 _ _ = Community Legal Aid SoCaI Advocates fur )ustice in Orange and Los Angeles Counties For the above -mentioned reasons, Community Legal Aid SoCal supports the continuance of Executive Order No. 2-2020. At a time when many are already struggling, tenants should not have to worry they may lose their homes simply because their landlord choses to increase their rent. Executive Order No. 2-2020 helps maintain housing stability at a time when our community needs it the most. Sincerely, Kate Marr Executive Director www.communitylegalsocal.org • 2101 North Tustin Avenue, Santa Ana, CA 92705 800.834.5001 •714.571.5200 Salas, Diana From: Gisselle Roldan <info apsg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 11:41 AM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May Sth 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Gisselle Roldan roldangissellel 3@gmail.com P.O.Box 3650 Santa Ana , California 92703 10 Salas, Diana From: Indigo Vu <indigo.vu@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 12:17 PM To: eComment Subject: AGENDA ITEM 60A Extend Rent Freeze & Protect Tenants As a long-time resident on Santa Ana, I urge all members of the city council to vote today to extend the rent freezes in Santa Ana. We are currently living through a global pandemic, and our futures are uncertain as it is. To allow rent increases when so many of us cannot work is to ignore the needs of your constituents by making certain that we will be in large amounts of debt during a global emergency. Vote to protect the residents of Santa Ana by extending the rent freezes. 0% Salas, Diana From: Amizadai Ubario <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 12:25 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Amizadai D. Ubario Amizadai Ubario amy@tccdc.org 811 S Fairview St Apt L6 Santa Ana, California 92704 <https:Hu 1584542.ct.se ndgrid.net/mpss/o/FwE/n iOYAA/t.31i/xjxnfBq GQ2aOvewUOfzgRA/ho.gif> 1'�fA Salas, Diana From: Leonel V. OCCCO <leonel@occcopico.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 12:37 PM To: eComment; Sarmiento, Vicente; Penaloza, David; Solorio, Jose; Bacerra, Phil; Villegas, Juan; Iglesias, Cecilia; Pulido, Miguel Subject: Santa Ana City Freeze rent. Attachments: Santa Ana COVID -19 extend rent freeze .pdf Dear Santa Ana Mayor and City Councilmembers: RE: COVID- 19 response - Extend Freezing rental increases in the City of Santa Ana We (OCCCO) Orange County Congregation Community Organization have heard the suffering and pain of Santa Ana residents. That is why at the request of thousands of renters, residents, parents, students and families, we decided to write this letter, please read carefully and consider voting YES to extend the rent freeze. Please see the letter in the file below. Thank you very much God bless you In unity and democracy Leonel Velazquez Rodriguez Education and housing Communitv Coordinator Be flan nt the mavemenl A202�Cerrus pCa6fornla PorAll rxnsuseagw Orange County Congregation Community Organization OCCCO is a non-profit, non -partisan 501(c)3 organization. OCCCO is not aligned with any political party nor do we support candidates for office. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not review, copy or distribute this message. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original message. Neither the sender nor the company for which he or she works accepts any liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. l Li�6 �q��mSO��I•� May 4th, 2020 Qccco Miguel Pulido, Mayor Juan Villegas, Mayor Pro Tem, Ward 5 David Penaloza, Council Member, Ward 2 Jose Solorio, Council Member, Ward 3 Phil Bacerra, Council Member, Ward 4 Cecilia Iglesias, Council Member, Ward 6 Santa Ana. City Council 20 Civic Center Plaza Santa Ana, CA 92701 RE: COVID-19 response - Extend Freezing rental increases in the City of Santa Ana Dear Mayor and City Councilmembers: Orange County Congregation Community Organization (OCCCO) works to empower individuals and congregations in Orange County to put their faith in action by making equitable and long-lasting systemic change within our cities. Over the years, we have trained hundreds of faith -based community advocates through our leadership development work and engaged over 35,000 low-income voters of color across Orange County. Our current campaigns are Housing with Dignity for All, Justice in the Education System, and Immigrant Rights. We write today to urge you to stand with low-income families in the City of Fullerton, who are currently impacted financially as a result of COVID-t9. As you are well aware, our local, state, and federal legislation has declared this pandemic a public health emergency and has passed robust legislationto ease some of the economic hardship reaping through our communities. As part of the faith community, we endorse and appreciate the efforts taken by all-- particularly the measures taken Santa Ana on March 17th, when the council passed an eviction moratorium. We are asking the city to take another critical step to protect the most vulnerable in the city. Our organization has learned from local community members that some landlords are increasing rents during this time. Increasing rents in this moment is not prudent considering the current economic distress and severe hardship experienced by Santa Aua's extremely low-income tenants. It is also out of character for a community that takes care of its own, and works to show solidarity and compassion towards one another. It is immoral for anyone to seek added benefit from the most vulnerable residents of Santa Ana as a result of COVID-19. The City of Santa Ana must take immediate and bold action to prevent further rent increases. We strongly urge you to extend freezing all rem increases for a minimum of two months on residential units as a safeguard for families on the brink of homelessness. A city-wide rent freeze is one small and easy step in the direction of stabilizing the lives of Santaneros and its local economy. Our prayers are with you in such a critical time in our city's history. Santa Ana's firture is at stake. Sincerely, Executive Director Miguel Hernandez Orange County Congregation Community Organization 310 W Broadway, Anaheim CA 92805 www.occcopico.org (714)491-0771 M Salas, Diana From: David Gonzalez <dsg.david92@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 12:45 PM To: Pulido, Miguel Cc: eComment Subject: Urgent regarding families and children Good afternoon Mayor Miguel Pulido, I hope this email finds you in good health. My name I David Gonzalez and I have been a resident in Santa Ana for 28 years. The reason I am reaching out is to address the rent freeze. I want to formally request, as a longtime resident, that the council extend the rent freeze for up to six months after emergency orders are lifted. Our fellow citizens who rent need our help so that theirs and their kid's livelihoods are protected and preserved during this unique period. With your help only can we accomplish such a task! The Santa Ana City Council has the power to stop rent increases beyond May 31 st. Current protections are insufficient to protect low-income tenants from evictions after emergency orders are lifted. Please make a moratorium on rent increases (rent freeze) during the COVID49-related emergency declarations, and for at least 6 months thereafter. It makes no sense for rents to rise while we attempt to recover after 3 months or more without income and the worst health crisis of our time. Together we will continue to build a beautiful Santa Ana and enrich the lives of families and children living it! Thank you in advance, David Gonzalez Cell: 714.599.0726 Email: dsg.david92@gmail.com 141 Salas, Diana From: Matt Ripley <matthew.ripley13@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 12:59 PM To: eComment Subject: Keep and Expand Rent Freeze Allowing rents to go up during a global pandemic is akin to war profiteering and it is despicable! Keep the rent freeze in place and expand it at least 6 months past COVID-19 emergency orders. tat Salas, Diana From: Brenda Moron <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 1:10 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa 143 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Brenda Moron infinite8flux@gmail.com 2010 West Harvard Street Santa Ana, California 92704 IN3 Salas, Diana From: Pastora MARTINEZ <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 1:13 PM To: eComment Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo — Punto 60A de la agenda Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) es una pandemia mundial, que amenaza social y econ6micamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad es de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen en hogares multifamiliares y viven an hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambi6n sabemos que un gran numero de familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atenci6n m6dica. Debido a esto, reconocemos to vulnerable que as nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiera y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Mas alarmante aun, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente an riesgo de perder la vida. Los casos confirmados de COVID-19 an el Condado de Orange ban !do creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 casos confirmados hasta el momento (a partir del 05/01/20). Una gran parte de las personas en California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y por to tanto no podran pagar el alquiler. Mas de 3 millones de personas en California ban solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange ha reportado mas de 13,200 p6rdidas de empleos. Estos son n6meros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que las personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un periodo de seis meses mientras que tambi6n experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente para aquellos que ban acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a Ios cuales regresar, ban sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles para Ios beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible para Ios residentes ponerse al dia con el alquiler. Si Ios residentes en Santa Ana no reciben una expansi6n de la congelaci6n de renta ya en vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores para los residentes, incluyendo la p6rdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes en Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos on un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes como oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de families trabajadoras Sean expuestas a la p6rdida /q I de sus viviendas. Especificamente, les pedimos que mantengan y extiendan la congelaci6n de rentas hasta seis meses despu6s de que se levante la orden de emergencia. iPar favor, ACTOEN AHORA para proteger a los residentes de Santa Ana! Sinceramente, Pastora MARTINEZ pasta ramarti nez631 @gmail.com 518 S. Sullivan st Spc 69 Santa. Ana. Ca , California 92704 Salas, Diana From: Antelmo Velazquez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 1:31 PM To: eComment Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo - Punto 60A de la agenda Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) es una pandemia mundial, que amenaza social y economicamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad es de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen en hogares multifamiliares y viven en hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambien sabemos que un gran numero de familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atencion medica. Debido a esto, reconocemos to vulnerable que es nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiera y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Ws alarmante aun, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente en riesgo de perder la vida. Los casos confirmados de COVID-19 en el Condado de Orange han Ho creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 casos confirmados hasta el momento (a partir del 05101/20). Una gran parte de ]as personas en California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y por Io tanto no podran pagar el alquiler. Mas de 3 millones de personas en California han solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange he reportado mas de 13,200 perdidas de empleos. Estos son numeros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que las personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un periodo de seis meses mientras que tambien experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente para aquellos que han acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a los cuales regresar, han sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles pare los beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible pare los residentes ponerse al dia con el alquiler. Si los residentes en Santa Ana no reciben una expansi6n de la congelacion de renta ya en vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores pare los residentes, incluyendo la perdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes en Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos an un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes como oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de familias trabajadoras sean expuestas a la perdida 145 de sus viviendas. Espec!ficamente, les pedimos que mantengan y extiendan la congelacion de rentas hasta seis meses despues de que se levante la orden de emergencia. 1Por favor, ACTOEN AHORA para proteger a los residentes de Santa Ana! Sinceramente, Antelmo Velazquez antelmodirect@yahoo.com 3250 S Main St Spt 43B Santa Ana , California 92707 Salas, Diana From: Pilar Cortez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 1:32 PM To: eComment Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo - Punto 60A de la agenda Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) es una pandemia mundial, que amenaza social y economicamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad es de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen en hogares multifamiliares y viven en hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambien sabemos que un gran numero de familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atencion medica. Debido a esto, reconocemos to vulnerable que es nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiera y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. M6s alarmante aun, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente en riesgo de perder la vida. Los casos confirmados de COVID-19 en el Condado de Orange han ido creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 casos confirmados hasta el momento (a partir del 05/01/20). Una gran parte de las personas en California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y por to tanto no podran pagar el alquiler. M6s de 3 millones de personas en California han solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange ha reportado mas de 13,200 perdidas de empleos. Estos son numeros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que las personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un periodo de seis meses mientras que tambien experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente para aquellos que han acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a Jos cuales regresar, han sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles para los beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible para los residentes ponerse al cilia con el alquiler. Si los residentes en Santa Ana no reciben una expansion de la congelacion de renta ya en vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores para los residentes, incluyendo la perdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes en Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos en un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes como oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de familias trabajadoras sean expuestas a la perdida 14(P de sus viviendas. Especificamente, les pedimos qua mantengan y extiendan la congelacion de rentas haste seis meses despues de qua se levante la orden de emergencia. 1Por favor, ACTUEN AHORA pare proteger a los residentes de Santa Anal Sinceramente, Pilar Cortez 1219ep@gmail.com 1219w22ndst Santa Ana , California 92706 J�(D Salas, Diana From: adrian gonzalez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 1:39 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, adrian gonzalez adrgonz@stanford.edu 251 eastern ave aurora, Illinois 60505 Salas, Diana From: Vicki Binford <vbinford@amcliving.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 1:45 PM To: eComment Subject: Rescind the Rent Freeze Executive Order am opposed to Santa Ana's executive order mandating a citywide rent freeze. As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am working with my tenants who have been affected by the COVID-19 emergency, but this rent freeze goes too far. The city's executive order is clearly in violation of the statewide Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act. It is written to apply to all rental properties in Santa Ana and assumes that all renters have been impacted by COVID-19 without requiring any evidence to be provided. Rental -housing providers still need to keep up with their mortgage, property tax, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to rescind Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2-2020 and ensure the city's compliance with state law. Sincerely, Vicki Binford Vicki Binford I Director of Property Operations AMC 1 15320 Barranca Pkwy I Suite 100 1 Irvine I CA 1 92618 P: 949.595.5900 1 www.amclivina.com This communication is confidential and may contain information or material that is proprietary, legally privileged and/or otherwise protected by law (all such rights and protections being expressly reserved hereby). If you have received it in error or if you are not the intended recipient, please immediately notify the sender by return message and permanently delete the message, including any attachments, and destroy any printed copies. Any unauthorized use, copying or dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Thank you. ARES, Inc. operating under California License # 00881503 U Orozco, Norma From: Diana Aguilar <aguilarydiana@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 2:10 PM To: Pulido, Miguel; Solorio, Jose; Villegas, Juan; Iglesias, Cecilia; Sarmiento, Vicente; Penaloza, David; Bacerra, Phil Cc: eComment Subject: Rent Freeze during COIVD-19 Dear Council Members, The Santa Ana City Council has the power to stop rent increases beyond May 31 st. Current protections are insufficient to protect vulnerable low-income tenants from evictions after emergency orders are lifted. That is why we demand a moratorium on rent increases (rent freeze) during the COVID- 1 9-related emergency declarations, and for at least 6 months thereafter. It will be an immense challenge to attempt to recover after 3 months or more without income and the worst health crisis of our time. Please consider this plea for our community who needs your help now. Respectfully, Diana Y. Aguilar, M.Ed. University of Southern California Educational Counseling Orono, Norma From: Leonard Silberman <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 2:24 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa J� Ana Residents! Sincerely, Leonard Silberman leonardsilberman@gmail.com 18191 Blue Ridge Dr Santa Ana, California 92705-2003 Orozco, Norma From: Mextli Lopez <mextli9239@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 2:28 PM To: Pulido, Miguel; Sarmiento, Vicente; Villegas, Juan; Iglesias, Cecilia; Penaloza, David; Bacerra, Phil; Solorio, Jose; Ridge, Kristine Cc: eComment Subject: Impacted Resident in Favor of Keeping and Expanding the Rent Freeze Dear Mayor Pro Tern Villegas, I am a constituent from the Willard neighborhood. My family has been hard hit my the COVID 19 pandemic. I moved back home after college to support my family after my dad was diagnosed with cancer. My father works as a mechanic and my mother is a domestic worker. I work at Orange Coast College as a student services specialist. On March 16th OCC shut down and all part time workers were laid off. I was amongst those who lost their job. I have two younger sisters and they are all counting on me to keep a roof over their head. Only my mom was working up until last week, but now her hours have been cut severely, culminating in her now only working 4 hours a day 4 day a week. What I will receive in unemployment is nowhere close to what I was making before I lost my job and what is necessary for me to sustain this household. Her and I have been able scrounge up our money to pay our rent on time for the last two months, but now that her hours have been cut even more, and I only started working this past week, I don't know if we will be able to pay our full rent in June. Even with me beginning work again, my job alone will not be sufficient to make ends meet. I imagine we are not the only family this is happening to. There appears to be a second wave of lay offs/ hour shortages impacting workers right now. As family members who have been laid off for the past few months return to work, it appears their previously employed counterparts are now losing work. There are many others going through similar and even worse situations than what my family is confronting. I am writing to you today to urge you to support an expansion of the current rent freeze which only covers us through the end of May. I want to make sure my family; my parents and my sisters don't become homeless. I don't know what I would do if our landlord was able to increase rent on us while I'm still trying to catch up to the rent we will fall behind on. We were able to pay April rent, and May rent , but now as I return to work, my mom is losing the majority of her work hours, so I know will struggle to pay rent in June. Please support a rent freeze that matches the eviction moratorium timeline. This way I and many others will have a fighting chance to catch up on the debts we've accumulated while we've been out of work. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Mextli Lopez 6\2 Orozco, Norma Subject: FW: mpulido@santa-ana.org, vsarmiento@santa-ana.org, dpenaloza@santa-ana.org, jsolorio@santa-ana.org, pbacerra@santa-ana.org,jvillegas@santa-ana.org, iglesias@santa-ana.org. Good afternoon to all the corresponding authorities, wishing that each one of you and your loved ones are well. I Luz Maria Martinez contacted you by this means to let you know that my situation as a resident of Santa Ana with a minimum wage income that has not been working for almost 2 months and with the uncertainty of whether I will return to my job that would be the best for me However, I am running the risk that my employer decides not to open his business anymore and that my colleagues and I will be unemployed. If this happens and as the economy continues it will take time for me to relocate to a job and establish my income to pay past due car bills, rent, and other expenses. For this and many more reasons that I will omit, I ask you to freeze the increase in income to prevent my debt from increasing and that of many families who are going through the same or worse situation than I am. As our representatives I ask you to speak to the property owners and support them so that they become aware that on this occasion the worst way to help themselves is to oppress the renters and the poor class, their energy must be focused upwards from the pyramid where the greatest oppression of the middle -upper middle class is, not downwards with the class of least resources. Thank you in advance for your attention and exercise your responsibilities as my social representative. I remain at your service: From: Luz Martinez <airamzul83@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 2:46 PM To: eComment <ecomment@santa-ana.org> Subject: mpulido@santa-ana.org, vsarmiento@santa-ana.org, dpenaloza@santa-ana.org, jsolorio@santa-ana.org, pbacerra@santa-ana.org, jvillegas@santa-ana.org, iglesias@santa-ana.org. Buenas tardes a todas las autoridades correspondientes, deseando se encuentren bien cada uno de ustedesy sus seres queridos. Yo Luz Maria Martinez les contacto por este medio para dejarles saber que mi situacion como recidente de Santa Ana con on ingreso del minitno que esta sin trabajar por ya casi 2 meses y con la incertidumbre de si volver6 al mi trabajo que seria to mejor para mi, mas sin embargo estoy corriendo el riesgo de que mi empleador decida no habrir mas su negocio y quedemos mis compafieras y yo desempleadas. Si esto sucede y conforme la economia siga me llevara tiempo reubicarme en on empleo y establecer mis ingresos para pagar las cuentas atrasadas del carro, renta, y otos gastos. Por esta y muchas razones mas que omitire les pido congelen el aumento de las rental para evitar que incremente mi deuda y la de muchas familias que pasan per la misma o peor aun situacion que yo. Como nuestros representantes les hago la peticion de que hablen con los duenos de las viviendas y los apoyen para que hagan conciencia de que en esta ocacion la peor manera de ayudarse a si mismos es oprimir a los renteros y la clase pobre, so energia debe ser enfocada hacia arriba de la piramide donde esta la mayor oprecion de la clase media- media alta, no hacia abajo con la clase de menos recursos. De ante mano gracias por so atencion y ejercer sus responsabilidades come mi representante social. Quedo a sus ordenes: Luz Maria Martinez airamzul83@grnail.co 7145742096 Residente de Santa Ana. Orozco, Norma From: Isabelle Lopez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 2:55 PM To: eComment Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo - Punto 60A de la agenda Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) as una pandemia mundial, que amenaza social y economicamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad as de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen an hogares multifamiliares y viven an hogares can miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambien sabemos que un gran nomero de familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atencion medica. Debido a esto, reconocemos to vulnerable que es nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiera y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Mas alarmante aun, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente en riesgo de perder la vida. Los casos confirmados de COVID-19 en el Condado de Orange han ido creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 casos confirmados hasta el momento (a partir del 05/01120). Una gran parte de las personas en California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y par to tanto no podran pagar el alquiler. Mas de 3 millones de personas en California han solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange ha reportado mas de 13,200 perdidas de empleos. Estos son numeros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que las personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un periodo de seis meses mientras que tambien experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente para aquellos que han acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a los cuales regresar, han sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles para los beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible para los residentes ponerse al dia con el alquiler. Si los residentes en Santa Ana no reciben una expansion de la congelacion de renta ya an vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores para los residentes, incluyendo la perdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes en Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos en un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes como oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de familias trabajadoras sean expuestas a la perdida \S� de sus viviendas. Especificamente, les pedimos que mantengan y extiendan la congelaci6n de rentas hasta seis meses despu6s de que se levante la orden de emergencia. iPor favor, ACTOEN MORA para proteger a los residentes de Santa Ana! Sinceramente, Isabelle Lopez isabellelopez7028@gmail.com 702 S Raitt st. Apt 8 Santa Ana, California 92704 Orozco, Norma From: Lucia Gonzalez<gonzalez.luciayletzara@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 2:55 PM To: eComment Subject: May 5th, 2020: Agenda Item 60-A Administrative Matters - Business Honorable Mayor and Members of the Council, Santa Ana is a majority renter city and increasing rent during these difficult times will put an unnecessary financial burden on your low-income residents. The COVID-19 pandemic has put people out of work and it does not make sense to allow rent increases to occur during such extraordinary circumstances. Preferably, the city council would protect and extend Executive Order No. 2-2020. The rent freeze needs to match the eviction moratorium 6-month repayment period. Furthermore, undocumented residents are not eligible for the various forms of assistance handed out by the federal and state governments during the pandemic. The least we can do for our most vulnerable populations is ensure that no more money is being taken from their already devastated incomes. The average rent for an apartment in Santa Ana hovers around $2000. Even a one-time $1200 stimulus check from the federal government is not enough to help most citizens pay for one month's worth of rent in Santa Ana as it stands, nevermind a rent increase. We are grateful for the prohibitions on evictions but allowing rent increases will only put our people in more debt. In these times, the city council has the opportunity to show Santa Ana who they stand behind. Landlord organizations or Santaneros. Sincerely, Lucia Gonzalez Orono, Norma From: Javi Guerrero <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 2:35 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May Sth 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Javi Guerrero jguerrerx94@gmail.com 125 clifford ave Watsonville, California 95076 <https:Hu 1584542.ct.sendgrid. net/mpss/o/JgE/n iOYAA/t.31 i/tuvT9GfgQrCxE_I kHtl_OQlho.gif> 5 Orozco, Norma From: Amizadai Ubario <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 12:25 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Amizadai D. Ubario Amizadai Ubario amy@tccdc.org 811 S Fairview St Apt L6 Santa Ana, California 92704 <https:Hu 1584542.ct.sendgrid. net/m pss/o/FwE/niOYAA/t.31 i/xjxnfBgGQ2a OvewUOfzgRA/ho.gif> �Glo Orono, Norma From: Susie Melo <susie@xotango.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 3:24 PM To: eComment Subject: Eviction Moratorium - Delayed Eviction Process Hello, We are adamantly opposed to any form of eviction moratorium because many people are using this as a way to avoid paying rent even if they can. This leaves us with the burden having to consult with attorneys and figure out how to deal with these situations, adding yet another expense that we can't afford. This is only creating bigger problems while enflaming tenant -landlord relations. When they end the moratorium there will be pandemonium in the courthouses. This is the wrong solution that unfairly places the financial burden on the landlord, many of whom would quickly become insolvent and unable to sustain their buildings if they don't collect their rent. The only solution is for our government (Federal, State & Local) to provide a rent relief fund that directly goes towards paying rent. This could be in the form of a grant for some and an interest free loan for others. My husband and I own several rental properties in Santa Ana and we are very disturbed by the lack of regard for landlords financial stability that recent mandates have created. My husband, an immigrant himself came here with only $500 to his name and no one to help him. We are now seniors who depend 100% on our rent for survival and upkeep of our properties. We have no mortgage to defer, so proposals to defer mortgages don't even consider us. Absent a mortgage, we must still pay property taxes, insurance, utilities, maintenance, repairs, license fees, inspection fees while also having to pay all of our personal bills. One of the most concerning aspects of this is that some (fortunately not all) tenants are taking this as a "get out of jail free" card, and trying to avoid paying rent at all regardless of the reason. Tenants everywhere are screaming to simply cancel rent. Then what?? Who pays our bills? Social media sites and television are just some evidence of how many renters are encouraging other to just not pay —this is their chance to stick it to landlords! We have been told first hand that some of our tenants are telling other tenants in the neighborhood to just not pay rent —just because they can. In one specific case, a tenant who is still working has been intentionally making it difficult for us to collect rent for over least 6 months. Now he is taking advantage of this opportunity to just say he doesn't have the money when we know he's working (and collecting stimulus money) yet he fails to provide any proof of being financially affected by Covid- 19. He is also one of the one's actively encouraging others to do the same just to damage landlords. Unfortunately, there are truly some people in need, however there is also a very large "entitlement" group that is just out to get landlords and feeling empowered by these mandates. This must stop or there will be chaos and less available housing for renters! The simple solution to stop the fighting is to put money directly in the hands of renters that can only be applied towards rent. Consider this — In Santa Ana where occupancy of a single family house is typically 5-9 people. In many cases multiple people in the same household are collecting $3200/mo unemployment and don't want to return to work because they are making more money now, yet there's no incentive to pay the rent. Landlords do not qualify for unemployment or little else. We need the City of Santa Ana to be on the right side of history and remove this burden from mom & pop landlords like us. I hope you will consider our situation and find a more viable solution like I mentioned above. Respectfully yours, Nestor & Susie Melo �S1 Orozco, Norma From: Soto, Daniel Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 3:29 PM To: eComment Subject: FW: Agenda Item 60A for Tonight's Meeting From: David Carbajal <davidcarbajaltorres@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 3:05 PM To: Pulido, Miguel <MPulido@santa-ana.org> Subject: Agenda Item 60A for Tonight's Meeting Good Afternoon Mayor Miguel Pulido, I am writing to you today urging you to leave the rent freeze intact tonight. The city of Santa Ana is leading in the number of COVID-19 cases in the county. We know how crucial housing is for the safety of the community and now more than ever it is important that we protect residents of Santa Ana by enacting bold measures to protect their housing. The rent freeze mitigates the financial stress renters in Santa Ana currently feel. We need to ensure that residents in Santa Ana do not suffer financial catastrophe as we open up our communities post-COVID 19. I ask you to listen to the renters in Santa Ana and not corporate landlords. Renters make up 56% of Santa Ana residents; they are they community. I know that tonight you will all discuss amending or rescinding the rent freeze. I ask that you extend it to match the eviction moratorium. We need to do what's right for the most vulnerable. Respectfully, David Carbajal Orozco, Norma From: Isela Maldonado <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 3:36 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Isela Maldonado jamisi2000@sboglobal.net 1210 Cabrillo Park Santa Ana, California 92701 Orono, Norma From: Soto, Daniel Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 3:23 PM To: eComment Subject: FW: Item 60A -----Original Message ----- From: Natalie Ceja <natalie.ceja@icloud.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 11:16 AM To: Pulido, Miguel <MPulido@santa-ana.org>; Bacerra, Phil <pbacerra@santa-ana.org>; Penaloza, David <DPenaloza@santa-ana.org>; Solorio, Jose <JSolorio@santa-ana.org>; Iglesias, Cecilia <Clglesias@santa-ana.org>; Villegas, Juan <JVillegas@santa-ana.org>; Sarmiento, Vicente <VSarmiento@santa-ana.org> Subject: Item 60A Good morning Mayor Pulido and City Council members, I am here to demand that you maintain and protect the Santa Ana rent freeze. We are in the middle of a global pandemic, there in not valid justification describing why the rent freeze should be rescinded. In the midst of a global emergency that had resulted in severe financial impacts for the majority, we need to consider the livelihood of the people you all were elected to represent. You are not in your current positions to represent the interests of the CA apartment association, you are supposed to work for the people. This includes the most vulnerable populations in the city that need you now more than ever. As you all speak about the rent freeze today, you should not forget the people; Santa Ana's undocumented residents, Santa Ana's extremely low income and low income residents, the residents who have lost their jobs/income, and our essential workers who risk their lives every day to attend our needs. The demand to protect and extend the rent freeze is necessary for the whole city. Act accordingly and put the people first. Thank you, Natalie \60 Orozco, Norma From: Mahaleth Pineda <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 3:54 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Mahaleth Pineda mahaleth@icloud.com 2115 W Edinger Apt A Santa Ana , California 92704 Orozco, Norma From: Gema Suarez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 3:41 PM To: eComment Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo - Punto 60A de la agenda Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) es una pandemia mundial, que amenaza social y econ6micamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad es de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen en hogares multifamiliares y viven en hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambi6n sabemos que un gran numero de families no tienen seguro m6dico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atenci6n medica. Debido a esto, reconocemos to vulnerable que es nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiera y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Mas alarmante aun, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente en riesgo de perder la vida. Los cases confirmados de COVID-19 en el Condado de Orange ban ido creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 cases confirmados haste el momento (a partir del 05/01/20). Una gran parte de las personas en California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y per Io tanto no podran pagar el alquiler. Ws de 3 millones de personas en California han solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Concede de Orange he reportado mas de 13,200 perdidas de empleos. Estes son n6meros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que las personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un periodo de seis meses mientras que tambien experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente pare aquellos que ban acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a los cuales regresar, ban sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles para los beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible pare los residentes ponerse al die con el alquiler. Si los residentes en Santa Ana no reciben una expansi6n de la congelaci6n de renta ya en vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores pare los residentes, incluyendo la p6rdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes en Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos en un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes come oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de familias trabajadoras seen expuestas a la p6rdida M de sus viviendas. Especificamente, les pedimos que mantengan y extiendan la congelacion de rentas hasta seis meses despues de qua se levante la orden de emergencia. iPor favor, ACTOEN AHORA para proteger a los residentes de Santa Anal Sinceramente, Gema Suarez gema@elcentroculturaldemexico.org 837 N Ross St. Santa Ana, California 92701 Orono, Norma From: Sandra De Anda <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 3:39 PM To: eComment Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo — Punto 60A de la agenda Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) es una pandemia mundial, que amenaza social y econ6micamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad es de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen en hogares multifamiliares y viven en hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambien sabemos que un gran nomero de familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atenci6n medica. Debido a esto, reconocemos to vulnerable que as nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiera y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Ws alarmante aun, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente, en riesgo de perder la vida. Los casos confirmados de COVID-19 an el Condado de Orange han !do creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 casos confirmados hasta el momento (a partir del 05/01/20). Una gran parte de las personas an California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y por to tanto no podran pager el alquiler. Mas de 3 millones de personas an California han solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange ha reportado mas de 13,200 perdidas de empleos. Estos son nOmeros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que las personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un periodo de seis meses mientras que tambi6n experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente pare aquellos que han acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a los cuales regresar, han sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles para los beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible para los residentes ponerse al dia con el alquiler. Si los residentes en Santa Ana no reciben una expansi6n de la congelaci6n de renta ya an vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores pare los residentes, incluyendo la p6rdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes en Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos en un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes como oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de familias trabajadoras sean expuestas a la p6rdida de sus viviendas. Especificamente, les pedimos que mantengan y extiendan la congelacion de rentas haste seis meses despues de que se levante la orden de emergencia. iPor favor, ACTOEN AHORA para proteger a los residentes de Santa Anal Sinceramente, Sandra De Anda Andasandes@gmail.com 1114 S Minnie St Apt #4 Santa Ana, California 92701 Orozco, Norma From: Alvaro Medina <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 3:38 PM To: eComment Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo - Punto 60A de la agenda Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) as una pandemia mundial, que amenaza social y econ6micamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad as de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen an hogares multifamiliares y viven an hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambien sabemos que un gran nomero de familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atenci6n medica. Debido a esto, reconocemos Io vulnerable que as nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiera y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Mas alarmante a6n, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente an riesgo de perder la vida. Los casos confirmados de COVID-19 en el Condado de Orange han ido creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 casos confirmados hasta el momento (a partir del 05/01/20). Una gran parte de Ias personas an California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y por Io tanto no podran pagar el alquiler. Ws de 3 millones de personas an California han solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange ha reportado mas de 13,200 perdidas de empleos. Estos son n6meros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que Ias personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un periodo de seis meses mientras que tambien experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente pare aquellos que han acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a los cuales regresar, han sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles para los beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible para los residentes ponerse al dia con el alquiler. Si los residentes an Santa Ana no reciben una expansi6n de la congelaci6n de renta ya an vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores para los residentes, incluyendo la perdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes en Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos an un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes como oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de families trabajadoras sean expuestas a la perdida 0 de sus viviendas. Especificamente, les pedimos que mantengan y extiendan la congelaci6n de rentas hasta seis meses despues de que se levante la orden de emergencia. iPor favor, ACTOEN AHORA para proteger a los residentes de Santa Ana! Sinceramente, Alvaro Medina alvarogmedina.amg@gmail.com 1401 Minnie St. Apt 9 Santa Ana, California 92707 Orono, Norma From: Patrisia Gonzalez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 4:01 PM To: eComment Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo — Punto 60A de la agenda Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) as una pandemia mundial, qua amenaza social y economicamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad as de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen an hogares multifamiliares y viven en hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambien sabemos qua un gran nomero de familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atencion medica. Debido a esto, reconocemos to vulnerable que es nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiera y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Ws alarmante aon, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente an riesgo de perder la vida. Los casos confirmados de COVID-19 en el Condado de Orange han ido creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 casos confirmados hasta el momento (a partir del 05/01/20). Una gran parte de las personas an California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y por to tanto no podran pagar el alquiler. Mas de 3 millones de personas an California han solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange he reportado mas de 13,200 perdidas de empleos. Estes son nomeros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que [as personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un pertodo de seis meses mientras que tambien experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente para aquellos que han acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a los cuales regresar, han sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles pare los beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible para los residentes ponerse al dia con el alquiler. Si los residentes en Santa Ana no reciben una expansion de la congelacion de renta ya an vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores pare los residentes, incluyendo la perdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes an Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos on un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes como oficiales electos pare actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de familias trabajadoras sean expuestas a la perdida de sus viviendas. Especificamente, les pedimos que mantengan y extiendan la congelacion de rentas haste seis meses despues de que se levante la orden de emergencia. iPor favor, ACTOEN MORA para proteger a los residentes de Santa Ana! Sinceramente, Patrisia Gonzalez patrisia.gonzalez@gmail.com 1313 South Fann Street Anaheim, California 92804 Orozco, Norma From: Dinh Vu <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 4:13 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Dinh Vu lienchi60@yahoo.com 4117 W. Mcfadden Ave. SP # 708 Santa Ana, CA. 92704 Orozco, Norma From: Joel Martinez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 4:10 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa H Ana Residents! Sincerely, Joel Martinez Joel Martinez latinsoul7l4@aol.com 1124 S Spruce St Santa Ana, California 92704 Orozco, Norma From: Maureen Rosenquist <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 4:14 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa �\ rt Ana Residents! Sincerely, Maureen Rosenquist Maureen Rosenquist maureen.rosenquist@gmaii.com 720 E. Park Lane Santa Ana, California 92705 Orozco, Norma From: Gustavo Chan <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 4:19 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa k-A Ana Residents! Sincerely, Gustavo Chan cashcame@yahoo.com 1040 W MacArthur Blvd, 23 Santa Ana, California 92707 Orozco, Norma From: Eileen Cueva <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 4:21 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01120). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa ■ Ana Residents! Sincerely, Eileen Cueva eileen.cueva@gmaii.com 1006 N Hanover PI Anaheim, California 92801 Orozco, Norma From: Kimberly Nguyen <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 4:31 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity, and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing their jobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Kimberly Nguyen kimberly_n63@yahoo.com 4117W McFadden spc 621 Santa Ana ca , California 92704 Orozco, Norma From: Elizabeth Mendez <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 4:30 PM To: eComment Subject: Junta del concilio para el 5 de mayo - Punto 60A de la agenda Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, La crisis del COVID-19 (coronavirus) es una pandemia mundial, qua amenaza social y economicamente a nuestra comunidad. Nuestra comunidad es de extremadamente bajos ingresos, son mayormente inquilinos, residen en hogares multifamiliares y viven en hogares con miembros de diferentes estatus migratorio. Tambien sabemos que un gran numero de familias no tienen seguro medico o tienen acceso inadecuado a la atencion medica. Debido a esto, reconocemos to vulnerable que es nuestra comunidad a esta pandemia, susceptible a la crisis financiera y al desplazamiento de su vivienda. Ws alarmante aon, nuestra comunidad esta particularmente en riesgo de perder la vida. Los casos confirmados de COVID-19 en el Condado de Orange han ido creciendo constantemente, con 2,636 casos confirmados hasta el momento (a partir del 05/01/20). Una gran parts de las personas an California, incluyendo residentes de Santa Ana, estan perdiendo sus empleos y por to tanto no podran pager el alquiler. Mas de 3 millones de personas an California han solicitado beneficios de desempleo, y el Condado de Orange ha reportado mas de 13,200 perdidas de empleos. Estos son numeros asombrosos. No podemos pedir que las personas paguen rentas atrasadas durante un perfodo de seis meses mientras que tambien experimentan aumentos de renta, especialmente para aquellos que han acumulado una deuda inmensa: no tienen trabajos a los cuales regresar, han sufrido reducciones significativas de sus horas de trabajo y no son elegibles para los beneficios de alivio COVID-19 porque son indocumentados. Sera simplemente imposible para los residentes ponerse al dfa con el alquiler. Si los residentes en Santa Ana no reciben una expansion de la congelacion de renta ya en vigor, no se equivoquen, esto tendra impactos devastadores para los residentes, incluyendo la perdida de vivienda y muerte. Sin acceso equitativo a la vivienda, residentes on Santa Ana seran desplazados, y puestos on un alto riesgo de exponerse al coronavirus. Los residentes de Santa Ana les hacemos un Ilamado a ustedes como oficiales electos para actuar con urgencia y evitar que miles de familias trabajadoras sean expuestas a la p6rdida 02' de sus viviendas. Especificamente, les pedimos que mantengan y extiendan la congelaci6n de rentas hasta seis meses despues de que se levante la orden de emergencia. IPor favor, ACTOEN AHORA para proteger a los residentes de Santa Ana! Sinceramente, Elizabeth Mendez em8203649@gmail.com 1325 w walnut st apt 5 Santa Ana CA, California 92703 Orozco, Norma From: Jesus Santana <jesus@resilienceoc.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 4:27 PM To: eComment; Bacerra, Phil; Pulido, Miguel Subject: May 5th, City Council Meeting, Agenda Item: 60 A Hello Mayor and City Council Members, My name is Jesus Santana, I was born and have been raised in Santa Ana all my life and I have been a Ward 4 resident for about 17 years now. The reason why I am submitting this ecomment is intended for agenda item 60A, where I stand in favor of extending and expanding the Rent Freeze Executive Order that was signed by our City Manager, Kristine Ridge, on April 7th, 2020. It's great that you all (Mayor and City Council Members) have decided to stand with Santa Ana tenants by allowing our city manager to enact the Eviction Moratorium and the Rent Freeze, but it Is extremely crucial to continue supporting and protecting all of our Santa Ana community members who have been most affected by this global pandemic. Especially during a time where numbers of confirmed Coronavirus cases have increased here in Orange County. As of today, the current number of reported cases by the Orange County Health Care Agency is 2,873; with the majority of them coming from our city of Santa Ana with a total of 433. It is unfair that many tenants are still required to pay rent, along with a rent increase, even though many of their financials have been severely hurt by work hours being reduced and many folks being laid off. The time to show support to us, Santa Ana residents, is now! Which is why I implore you all to continue enacting both the Eviction Moratorium and the Rent Freeze Executive Orders for the remainder of the shelter at home order, and for it to continue 6 months after the Emergency Orders have been lifted. Thank you for all you do, the health and safety of all of us, Santa Ana residents, rely on your decisions. I hope all of you have a good day and continue to stay safe! Best, Jesus Santana Community Organizer Pronouns (He, Him, His) Resilience Orange County 14is E i7th St. Suite ioo B, Santa Ana, CA Q270S www. resil ienceoc. orQ Email: jesus(@resilienceoc.org R' THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO WHICH IT IS ADDRESSED AND MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL AND EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW. IF THE READER OF THIS MESSAGE IS NOT THE INTENDED RECIPIENT OR THE EMPLOYEE OR AGENT RESPONSIBLE FOR DELIVERING THE MESSAGE TO THE INTENDED RECIPIENT, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT ANY DISSEMINATION, DISTRIBUTION OR COPYING OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED Orozco, Norma From: suvan geer <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 4:25 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, I am writing to you on behalf of Church of the Foothills' Peace, Benevolence and Justice committee that I chair and at the request of Pastor Mike Holland. As one of your Santa Ana congregations we want you to know we are in full support of the Tenants United Santa Ana's request for maintaining a rent freeze. Now is not the time to act without sensitivity or compassion. So many of our health care workers and those whose labor is essential to all of us are renters and low income. Please consider not only maintaining but expanding the rent freeze for six months after the emergency orders are lifted. It's the right thing to do. Sincerely, Church of the Foothills: PB&J Committee, Pastor Mike Holland, Chair: Suvan Geer suvan geer suvangeer@sbcglobal.net 12441 Mystic Lane Santa Ana, California 92705 \1A Orozco, Norma From: Chau Dang <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 4:33 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa r 0 Ana Residents! Sincerely, Chau Dang minhchau45@yahoo.com 4117 W MCFADDEN Ave Spc 702 Santa Ana, California 92704 Orozco, Norma From: Howard Snitowsky <hsnitowsky@hotmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 4:38 PM To: eComment Subject: Request to reject the Santa Ana rent freeze Dear Santa Ana City Clerk: I am opposed to Santa Ana's executive order mandating a citywide rent freeze. As a rental housing provider and taxpayer, I am working with my tenants who have been affected by the COVID-19 emergency, but this rent freeze goes too far. The city's executive order is clearly in violation of the statewide Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act. It is written to apply to all rental properties in Santa Ana and assumes that all renters have been impacted by COVID-19 without requiring any evidence to be provided. Rental -housing providers still need to keep up with their mortgage, property tax, insurance, payroll, and other expenses. I respectfully request that the Santa Ana City Council take immediate action to rescind Section 3 of Executive Order No. 2-2020 and ensure the city's compliance with state law. Sincerely, Howard E Snitowsky N-1 \0 Orozco, Norma From: Ninh Nguyen <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 4:51 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residents! Sincerely, Ninh Nguyen kingofking5630@yahoo.com 4117 w McFadden spc325 Santa ana, California 92704 <https:Hu 1584542,ct.sendgrid. net/m pss/o/_gA/n iOYAA/t.31i/D-AO KYwsQC-4t W ku W M m7m Qlho.gif> 01 1 Orozco, Norma From: Mary Nguyen <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 4:47 PM To: eComment Subject: Council Meeting May 5th 2020 Agenda Item 60A Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Council, Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis is a worldwide pandemic, posing social and economic threats to our community. Our community is extremely low-income, is primarily made up of renters, and many reside in multi -family households, and live in mixed -status households. We also know that a lot of families are largely uninsured or have inadequate access to healthcare. Because of this, we recognize how vulnerable our community is to this pandemic, susceptible to experiencing financial precarity and housing displacement. Equally alarming is that we particularly at risk of losing our lives. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing, with 2,636 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/01/20). A large share of people in California, including Santa Ana residents are losing theirjobs and therefore are unable to pay rent. California has surpassed over 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits and Orange County has reported over 13,200 job losses. These are astounding numbers. We cannot expect for people to pay back their rent during the six month period while potentially experiencing rent increases, especially those who have accumulated immense debt, have no jobs to return to, have experienced significant reduced hours of work, and are ineligible for COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented. It would be merely impossible for residents to catch up on rent. If residents in Santa Ana do not receive an expansion of the current rent freeze, make no mistake, this will have devastating impacts for residents, including hous elessness, and death. Without equitable housing, residents in Santa Ana will be displaced, leaving them at significant risk of exposure to the coronavirus and prolonged economic precarity spanning generations. Santa Ana residents call on you as elected officials to act urgently to prevent what could potentially be thousands of working families facing houselessness, displacement and severe economic destabilization. Specifically, we call on you now to maintain and expand the rent freeze to six months after the emergency orders are lifted. Please ACT NOW to protect Santa Ana Residentsl Sincerely, Mary Nguyen mary4ll7728@gmail.com 4117 W McFadden Santa Ana, California 92704 <https://u 1584542.ct.se ndgrid. net/m pss/o/_AA/n iOYAA/t.31i/_xCVoySXT3yd ]kYumjSi EQlho.gif> 04 Orozco, Norma From: Patricia Flores Yrarrazaval <pjyrarrazaval@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 5:01 PM To: Pulido, Miguel Cc: eComment Subject: Re: Rent Increase Moratorium - City Council Meeting 5/5/20 Dear Mayor Pulido, My name is Patricia Flores Yrarrazaval, and I am an educator in Santa Ana Unified School District and a lifelong resident of Santa Ana. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, school employees throughout the district have been working diligently to ensure that all of our students continue to have access to food, education, and emotional support throughout the quarantine, as we are all painfully aware of how much issues like housing, unstable employment, and food insecurity affect their families. It is because of these experiences that I am now writing to ask that you and the Santa Ana City Council use your powers to stop rent increases beyond May 31st. While the protections under the current moratorium are helpful, they will not be enough to protect low-income tenants from evictions once the state begins lifting emergency orders. From my work in SAUSD, I know how so many of our city's families struggled to pay rent even before the pandemic; after 3 months or more in quarantine, in a city where 87% of working adults in the city are non -essential workers, and 80% do not have the flexibility to work from home, it will take a long time for most of our residents to be able to financially recover enough to pay back owed rent. Allowing rents to increase during this time will make this already -challenging task near -impossible. This will harm our city's health in the long -run, as families will have less funds to purchase healthy foods and pay for medical expenses, and it will impede our city's economic recovery, as residents will not have the disposable income to spend at re- opening businesses. The best thing for our city's recovery from the worst health crisis of our time is to extend the moratorium on rent increases for at least 6 months after emergency orders are lifted, to allow residents to repay accumulated rent debts and rebuild our lives. I am deeply aware of how many interests you and the rest of the City Council must balance when making these kinds of decisions; but I assure you, this is in the best interest of every member of our community, including landlords, as this will allow us to consistently pay rents in the aftermath of the pandemic. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Patricia J. Flores Yrarrazaval Santa Ana Resident and Educator �J \ Orozco, Norma From: Carlos Perea <carlosiran1992@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 5:03 PM To: eComment Subject: Public Comment - Agenda item 60A Hello Councilmembers and Mayor, The city has moved forward in a good and proactive direction with its emergency actions on evictions and rent freeze. It is important for many residents in the city who have lost their jobs or wages due to this global pandemic I call on you to continue stand up for working class and immigrant residents in the city that have been economically impacted. I understand landlords who shamelessly want to continue to raise rents during this global crisis have been putting pressure on you. That is not just disappointing but morally wrong. I urge you to put residents first over special interests, keep rent freeze in place and expand it to 6 months. Thank you. Carlos Perea, Santa Ana Resident. �r Salas, Diana From: Patricia Flores Yrarrazaval <pjyrarrazaval@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 5:04 PM To: Sarmiento, Vicente Cc: eComment Subject: Re: Rent Increase Moratorium - City Council Meeting 5/5/20 Dear Councilmember Sarmiento, My name is Patricia Flores Yrarrazaval, and I am an educator in Santa Ana Unified School District and a lifelong resident of Santa Ana. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, school employees throughout the district have been working diligently to ensure that all of our students continue to have access to food, education, and emotional support throughout the quarantine, as we are all painfully aware of how much issues like housing, unstable employment, and food insecurity affect their families. It is because of these experiences that I am now writing to ask that you and your fellow councilmembers use your powers to stop rent increases beyond May 31st. While the protections under the current moratorium are helpful, they will not be enough to protect low-income tenants from evictions once the state begins lifting emergency orders. From my work in SAUSD, I know how so many of our city's families struggled to pay rent even before the pandemic; after 3 months or more in quarantine, in a city where 87% of working adults in the city are non -essential workers, and 80% do not have the flexibility to work from home, it will take a long time for most of our residents to be able to financially recover enough to pay back owed rent. Allowing rents to increase during this time will make this already -challenging task near -impossible. This will harm our city's health in the long -run, as families will have less funds to purchase healthy foods and pay for medical expenses, and it will impede our city's economic recovery, as residents will not have the disposable income to spend at re- opening businesses. The best thing for our city's recovery from the worst health crisis of our time is to extend the moratorium on rent increases for at least 6 months after emergency orders are lifted, to allow residents to repay accumulated rent debts and rebuild our lives. I am deeply aware of how many interests you and the rest of the City Council must balance when making these kinds of decisions; but I assure you, this is in the best interest of every member of our community, including landlords, as this will allow us to consistently pay rents in the aftermath of the pandemic. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Patricia J. Flores Yrarrazaval Santa Ana Resident and Educator ! s-\ Salas, Diana From: Sent: To: Cc: Subject: Dear Councilmember Penaloza, Patricia Flores Yrarrazaval <pjyrarrazaval@gmail.com> Tuesday, May 05, 2020 5:06 PM Penaloza, David eComment Re: Rent Increase Moratorium - City Council Meeting 5/5/20 My name is Patricia Flores Yrarrazaval, and I am an educator in Santa Ana Unified School District and a lifelong resident of Santa Ana. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, school employees throughout the district have been working diligently to ensure that all of our students continue to have access to food, education, and emotional support throughout the quarantine, as we are all painfully aware of how much issues like housing, unstable employment, and food insecurity affect their families. It is because of these experiences that I am now writing to ask that you and your fellow councilmernbers use your powers to stop rent increases beyond May 31st. While the protections under the current moratorium are helpful, they will not be enough to protect low-income tenants from evictions once the state begins lifting emergency orders. From my work in SAUSD, I know how so many of our city's families struggled to pay rent even before the pandemic; after 3 months or more in quarantine, in a city where 87% of working adults in the city are non -essential workers, and 80% do not have the flexibility to work from home, it will take a long time for most of our residents to be able to financially recover enough to pay back owed rent. Allowing rents to increase during this time will make this already -challenging task near -impossible. This will harm our city's health in the long -run, as families will have less funds to purchase healthy foods and pay for medical expenses, and it will impede our city's economic recovery, as residents will not have the disposable income to spend at re- opening businesses. The best thing for our city's recovery from the worst health crisis of our time is to extend the moratorium on rent increases for at least 6 months after emergency orders are lifted, to allow residents to repay accumulated rent debts and rebuild our lives. I am deeply aware of how many interests you and the rest of the City Council must balance when making these kinds of decisions; but I assure you, this is in the best interest of every member of our community, including landlords, as this will allow us to consistently pay rents in the aftermath of the pandemic. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Patricia J. Flores Yrarrazaval Santa Ana Resident and Educator ��z Salas, Diana From: Patricia Flores Yrarrazaval <pjyrarrazaval@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 5:08 PM To: Solorio, Jose Cc: eComment Subject: Re: Rent Increase Moratorium - City Council Meeting 5/5/20 Dear Councilmember Solorio, My name is Patricia Flores Yrarrazaval, and I am an educator in Santa Ana Unified School District and a lifelong resident of Santa Ana. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, school employees throughout the district have been working diligently to ensure that all of our students continue to have access to food, education, and emotional support throughout the quarantine, as we are all painfully aware of how much issues like housing, unstable employment, and food insecurity affect their families. It is because of these experiences that I am now writing to ask that you and your fellow councilmembers use your powers to stop rent increases beyond May 31 st. While the protections under the current moratorium are helpful, they will not be enough to protect low-income tenants from evictions once the state begins lifting emergency orders. From my work in SAUSD, I know how so many of our city's families struggled to pay rent even before the pandemic; after 3 months or more in quarantine, in a city where 87% of working adults in the city are non -essential workers, and 80% do not have the flexibility to work from home, it will take a long time for most of our residents to be able to financially recover enough to pay back owed rent. Allowing rents to increase during this time will make this already -challenging task near -impossible. This will harm our city's health in the long -run, as families will have less funds to purchase healthy foods and pay for medical expenses, and it will impede our city's economic recovery, as residents will not have the disposable income to spend at re- opening businesses. The best thing for our city's recovery from the worst health crisis of our time is to extend the moratorium on rent increases for at least 6 months after emergency orders are lifted, to allow residents to repay accumulated rent debts and rebuild our lives. I am deeply aware of how many interests you and the rest of the City Council must balance when making these kinds of decisions; but I assure you, this is in the best interest of every member of our community, including landlords, as this will allow us to consistently pay rents in the aftermath of the pandemic. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Patricia J. Flores Yrarrazaval Santa Ana Resident and Educator -�q& 3 Salas, Diana From: Sent: To: Cc: Subject: Dear Councilmember Bacerra, Patricia Flores Yrarrazaval <pjyrarrazaval@gmail.com> Tuesday, May 05, 2020 5:09 PM Bacerra, Phil eComment Re: Rent Increase Moratorium - City Council Meeting 5/5/20 My name is Patricia Flores Yrarrazaval, and I am an educator in Santa Ana Unified School District and a lifelong resident of Santa Ana. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, school employees throughout the district have been working diligently to ensure that all of our students continue to have access to food, education, and emotional support throughout the quarantine, as we are all painfully aware of how much issues like housing, unstable employment, and food insecurity affect their families. It is because of these experiences that I am now writing to ask that you and your fellow councilmembers use your powers to stop rent increases beyond May 31 st. While the protections under the current moratorium are helpful, they will not be enough to protect low- income tenants from evictions once the state begins lifting emergency orders. From my work in SAUSD, I know how so many of our city's families struggled to pay rent even before the pandemic; after 3 months or more in quarantine, in a city where 87% of working adults in the city are non- essential workers, and 80% do not have the flexibility to work from home, it will take a long time for most of our residents to be able to financially recover enough to pay back owed rent. Allowing rents to increase during this time will make this already -challenging task near -impossible. This will harm our city's health in the long -run, as families will have less funds to purchase healthy foods and pay for medical expenses, and it will impede our city's economic recovery, as residents will not have the disposable income to spend at re -opening businesses. The best thing for our city's recovery from the worst health crisis of our time is to extend the moratorium on rent increases for at least 6 months after emergency orders are lifted, to allow residents to repay accumulated rent debts and rebuild our lives. I am deeply aware of how many interests you and the rest of the City Council must balance when making these kinds of decisions; but I assure you, this is in the best interest of every member of our community, including landlords, as this will allow us to consistently pay rents in the aftermath of the pandemic. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Patricia J. Flores Yrarrazaval Santa Ana Resident and Educator N'A Salas, Diana From: Patricia Flores Yrarrazaval <pjyrarrazaval@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 5:10 PM To: Villegas, Juan Cc: eComment Subject: Re: Rent Increase Moratorium - City Council Meeting 5/5/20 Dear Councilmember Villegas, My name is Patricia Flores Yrarrazaval, and I am an educator in Santa Ana Unified School District and a lifelong resident of Santa Ana. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, school employees throughout the district have been working diligently to ensure that all of our students continue to have access to food, education, and emotional support throughout the quarantine, as we are all painfully aware of how much issues like housing, unstable employment, and food insecurity affect their families. It is because of these experiences that I am now writing to ask that you and your fellow councilmembers use your powers to stop rent increases beyond May 31st. While the protections under the current moratorium are helpful, they will not be enough to protect low-income tenants from evictions once the state begins lifting emergency orders. From my work in SAUSD, I know how so many of our city's families struggled to pay rent even before the pandemic; after 3 months or more in quarantine, in a city where 87% of working adults in the city are non -essential workers, and 80% do not have the flexibility to work from home, it will take a long time for most of our residents to be able to financially recover enough to pay back owed rent. Allowing rents to increase during this time will make this already -challenging task near -impossible. This will harm our city's health in the long -run, as families will have less funds to purchase healthy foods and pay for medical expenses, and it will impede our city's economic recovery, as residents will not have the disposable income to spend at re- opening businesses. The best thing for our city's recovery from the worst health crisis of our time is to extend the moratorium on rent increases for at least 6 months after emergency orders are lifted, to allow residents to repay accumulated rent debts and rebuild our lives. I am deeply aware of how many interests you and the rest of the City Council must balance when making these kinds of decisions; but I assure you, this is in the best interest of every member of our community, including landlords, as this will allow us to consistently pay rents in the aftermath of the pandemic. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Patricia I Flores Yrarrazaval Santa Ana Resident and Educator 1$S Salas, Diana From: Patricia Flores Yrarrazaval <pjyrarrazaval@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 5:11 PM To: Iglesias, Cecilia Cc: eComment Subject: Re: Rent Increase Moratorium - City Council Meeting 5/5/20 Dear Councilmember Iglesias, My name is Patricia Flores Yrarrazaval, and I am an educator in Santa Ana Unified School District and a lifelong resident of Santa Ana. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, school employees throughout the district have been working diligently to ensure that all of our students continue to have access to food, education, and emotional support throughout the quarantine, as we are all painfully aware of how much issues like housing, unstable employment, and food insecurity affect their families. It is because of these experiences that I am now writing to ask that you and your fellow councilmembers use your powers to stop rent increases beyond May 31st. While the protections under the current moratorium are helpful, they will not be enough to protect low-income tenants from evictions once the state begins lifting emergency orders. From my work in SAUSD, I know how so many of our city's families struggled to pay rent even before the pandemic; after 3 months or more in quarantine, in a city where 87% of working adults in the city are non -essential workers, and 80% do not have the flexibility to work from home, it will take a long time for most of our residents to be able to financially recover enough to pay back owed rent. Allowing rents to increase during this time will make this already -challenging task near -impossible. This will harm our city's health in the long -run, as families will have less funds to purchase healthy foods and pay for medical expenses, and it will impede our city's economic recovery, as residents will not have the disposable income to spend at re- opening businesses. The best thing for our city's recovery from the worst health crisis of our time is to extend the moratorium on rent increases for at least 6 months after emergency orders are lifted, to allow residents to repay accumulated rent debts and rebuild our lives. I am deeply aware of how many interests you and the rest of the City Council must balance when making these kinds of decisions; but I assure you, this is in the best interest of every member of our community, including landlords, as this will allow us to consistently pay rents in the aftermath of the pandemic. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Patricia J. Flores Yrarrazaval Santa Ana Resident and Educator 1p� Salas, Diana From: Ruben Barreto (SABHC) <ruben.barreto@sa-bhc.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 5:14 PM To: eComment Subject: RE: Municipal Executive Order No. 2-2020 Attachments: SABHC Support Letter for Rent Freeze.docx.pdf May 5, 2020 Mayor Pulido and City Councilmembers City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza P.O. Bo 1988, M31 Santa Ana, CA 92701 RE: Municipal Executive Order No. 2-2020 Santa Ana Building Healthy Communities (SABHC) is committed to addressing health inequities and improving opportunities for a healthy, thriving Santa Ana. SABHC understands that health is directly shaped by the circumstances in which people are born, raised, live, and work. Improving these circumstances is a collective responsibility and one that must be led by those directly affected. We want to acknowledge and extend our gratitude and appreciation for your response on implementing local housing protections for residents in Santa Ana. Your actions have included establishing an eviction moratorium for those financially impacted by COVID-19 and enacting a rent freeze on rent increases until May 31st or until Governor Newsome's emergency order is lifted. In an effort to directly support Santa Ana residents with financial assistance SABHC, Resilience OC and Cooperacion Santa Ana collectively launched the InTakesh Relief Fund program. This fund provides much needed economic aid to residents especially those most marginalized and impacted by the novel Corona Virus. In the first weel<from the launch of the program, we received over 400 applications requesting financial support. More than 90% of applicants were in need of rental assistance in addition to other emergency needs they are experiencing . With every application there was a story of struggle, hardship and economic impact especially on undocumented residents who don't qualify to receive the $1,200 stimulus check, can't apply for unemployment or other public benefits out fear of repercussion from the federal government and fear of deportation. As we get ready to start the second phase of applications there is already a waitlist of 350 families. We must do better to ensure Santa Ana residents are protected from experiencing financial insecurity, displacement, and homelessness. Therefore, we urge that you maintain and extend the enacted emergency rent freeze. This will mitigate the detrimental housing consequences this pandemic has had and will continue to have for Santa Ana residents. Sincerely, Santa Ana Building Healthy Communities (SABHC) Ruben A Barreto Communications Director Santa Ana Building Healthy Communities 1505 E 17t^ St, Suite 117 Santa Ana, CA 92705 iVl www.sa-bhc.org 2�PANA4;sJ Q JO.jnLI ��a"l gilding Mealfihy ®lilfl1dA10Mties Santa Ana Building Healthy Communities 1505 E 17`^ St, Suite 117, Santa Ana, CA 92705 PHONE: (714)617-8891 1 FAX: (714)647-0901 1 www.sa-bhc.org May 5, 2020 Mayor Pulido and City Councilmembers City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza P.O. Bo 1988, M31 Santa Ana,CA 92701 RE: Municipal Executive Order No. 2-2020 Santa Ana Building Healthy Communities (SABHC) is committed to addressing health inequities and improving opportunities for a healthy, thriving Santa Ana. SABHC understands that health is directly shaped by the circumstances in which people are born, raised, live, and work. Improving these circumstances is a collective responsibility and one that must be led by those directly affected. We want to acknowledge and extend our gratitude and appreciation for your response on implementing local housing protections for residents in Santa Ana. Your actions have included establishing an eviction moratorium for those financially impacted by COVID-19 and enacting a rent freeze on rent increases until May 31 st or until Governor Newsome's emergency order is lifted. In an effort to directly support Santa Ana residents with financial assistance SABHC, Resilience OC and Cooperation Santa Ana collectively launched the In'Lakesh Relief Fund program. This fund provides much needed economic aid to residents especially those most marginalized and impacted by the novel CoronaVirus. In the first week from the launch of the program, we received over 400 applications requesting financial support. More than 90% of applicants were in need of rental assistance in addition to other emergency needs they are experiencing. With every application there was a story of struggle, hardship and economic impact especially on undocumented residents who dont qualify to revieve the $1,200 stimulus check, can't apply for unemployment or other public benefits out fear of repercussion from the federal government and fear of deportation. As we get ready to start the second phase of applications there is already a waitlist of 350 families. We must do better to ensure Santa Ana residents are protected from experiencing financial insecurity, displacement, and homelessness. Therefore, we urge that you maintain and extend the enacted emergency rent freeze. This will mitigate the detrimental housing consequences this pandemic has had and will continue to have for Santa Ana residents. Sincerely, Santa Ana Building Healthy Communities (SABHC) Salas, Diana From: Luis Sarmiento<luis@elcentroculturaldemexico.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 5:32 PM To: eComment Cc: Iglesias, Cecilia; Solorio, Jose; Villegas, Juan; Sarmiento, Vicente; Bacerra, Phil; Penaloza, David; Pulido, Miguel Subject: 60A Public Comment -- Please expand the existing rent freeze Dear Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Council, As a Santa Ana resident and renter, I'm writing to request your urgent consideration of public health during this COVID-19 pandemic: Please expand - DO NOT REMOVE - the current rent freeze in Santa Ana. As numbers of COVID-related deaths and hospitalizations increase, we must ensure residents stay in their homes. For property owners concerned with the effect of this rent freeze: Federal policy including the CARES Act provides protections for those unable to make mortgage payments.* Mortgage payments have been suspended by five of the largest banks in California - Wells Fargo, US Bank, Citi and JP Morgan Chase; credit unions and state chartered banks are offering similar deferments.** There is bipartisan support for both state and federal legislation that will compensate property owners for canceling rent payments for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis. I invite Mayor and City Council, property owners, and our whole community to unite and call for a cancelation of rent and mortgage payments during this time, with the support of state and federal institutions. If the coronavirus has taught us anything, it is that we must take responsibility for vulnerable community members, for the well-being of all. Do not remove the existing rent freeze, rather extend this protection for an additional 6 months after emergency orders have been lifted. A great number of Santa Ana residents have been without income in the past two months already, and need this time to see for the well-being of our families. Thank you for your consideration of this urgent matter, Luis Sarmiento (714)425-5562 References: * "Under the provisions of the CARESAct, individuals with federally backed mortgage loans who are experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19 can request a forbearance period by contacting their mortgage servicer. Federally backed mortgages include FHA, VA, USDA, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The CARES Act provides for affected borrowers to defer their mortgage payments for up to 180 days. Borrowers also have the right to apply far an extension of another 180 days of forbearance. There will be no penalties or fees added to the account, although regular interest will still accrue. " (https://wwwforbes.com/sites/advisor/2020/04/20/mortkage-payments-interruoted-by-covid-19-the- ederal and-state-response/#763c33f4a087 ** (https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-03-24/california-scrambling-to-obtain-virus- protection-gear) 611 Salas, Diana From: Dianne Prado <dianne@heartla.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 5:33 PM To: eComment Subject: Agenda No. 60A- Letter in Support of Executive Order 2-2020 Attachments: Agenda Item No. 60a_Letter in Support of Executive Order No. 2-2020.pdf Please see attached correspondence. Sincerely, Dianne Prado(she/her/hers) Executive Director HEART L.A. 3612 11 th Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90018 Tel: (323) 643-4430 Email: dlanne((Dheartla.org vvvvvv.hearda.org CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This a -mall constitutes an electronic communication within the meaning of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 Use 2510, and its disclosure is strictly limited to the recipient Intended by the sender of this message. This communication may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient and receipt by anyone other than the Intended recipient does not constitute a loss of the confidential or privileged nature of the communication. Any review or distribution by others Is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient please contact the sender by return e-mail and delete all copies of this communication. 411 Housing Equality & Advocacy Resource Team May 5, 2020 Dianne Prado (323) 643-4430 VIA EMAIL: ecomment@santa-ana.org Dianne@heartla.org Re: Agenda Item No. 60: Support of Executive Order No. 2-2020- Rent Freeze Dear Mayor Pulido & Honorable Council Members: We write in support of the City of Santa Ana's Executive Order No. 2-2020 to freeze the rent for all tenants in the City of Santa Ana. At this time more than ever, the response to this crisis demands bold actions from our leaders. In reference to the sweeping emergency rules adopted by the Judicial Council on April 6th, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye wrote: "We are at this point truly with no guidance in history, law, or precedent. And to say that there is no playbook is a gross understatement of the situation." As the Judicial Council did in exercising its powers over the courts, so too the City of Santa Ana must exercise its police powers to the fullest extent and take the courageous steps necessary to keep people housed during the crisis. The City has the authority under its emergency powers to freeze rents for all rental units during the emergency. The City has broad emergency powers. Governor Newsom has further expanded the scope of these powers through his Executive Order issued on March 16, 2020, in which he found that "...because homelessness can exacerbate vulnerability to COVID-19, California must take measures to preserve and increase housing security for Californians to protect public health; and ... local jurisdictions, based on their particular needs, may therefore determine that additional measures to promote housing security and stability are necessary to protect public health or to mitigate the economic impacts of COVID-19."1 As explained above, Santa Ana can use its police power to "make and enforce within its limits all local, police, sanitary, and other ordinances and regulations not in conflict with general laws."Z This means that cities are prohibited from passing laws or regulations that contradict state law. "A local ordinance is preempted by a state statute only to the extent that the two conflict."3 The purpose of the Costa -Hawkins Rental Housing Act is to "prohibit the strictest type of rent control that sets the maximum rental rate for a unit and maintains that rate after vacancy...i4 Thus, Costa -Hawkins gives landlords the right "to impose whatever rent they 1 Cal. Exec. Order No. N-28-20 (Mar. 16, 2020), available at: Cal. Const. art. XI, See, 7 3 Rental Housing Assn. of Northern Alameda County v. City of Oakland (2009) 171 Cal.App.4th 741, 752 (citing Action Apartment Assn., Inc. v. City of Santa Monica (2007) 41 Cal. 4th 1232, 1243). 4 Mosser Companies v. San Francisco Rent Stabilization & Arbitration Dd. (2015) 233 Cal. App. 4th 505, 514. 3612 1 r° AVENUE, LOS ANOELES, CA 90018 • TEL: (323) 643-4430• W W W AEARTLA ORO Protecting People, Pets, & their Homes c�� choose at the commencement of a tenancy."5 This is known among housing law specialists as "vacancy decontrol."6 A rent freeze would be a form of rent control, but of limited duration and applicability such that it would not continue to regulate rents of non-RSO units after the emergency. Landlords eligible to impose unregulated rent increases will be able to do so after the emergency has been resolved. Moreover, once the temporary rent freeze is over, landlords will be free to set the rent at whatever rate they want for any new tenant. Furthermore, because of the Judicial Council rule, no tenant who has been impacted by COVID-19 will have to leave their home during the emergency. This means that there will be virtually no vacancies or new tenancies during the period covered by the proposed rent suspension that would implicate Costa -Hawkins' requirement for vacancy decontrol. Therefore, the City Attorney should carefully consider whether the proposed rent freeze is not the "strictest type of rent control" that Costa -Hawkins aimed to prevent and might not conflict with the right to vacancy decontrol that Costa -Hawkins provides to landlords. Given the unprecedented emergency, the City's broad emergency powers, and the temporary nature of a rent freeze, the City Council should do everything in its power to expand a rent freeze to non-RSO units. To the extent that Mayoral action is needed, the City Council should indicate its support for such action with an ordinance or resolution to expand a temporary rent freeze. The City should pass a resolution to support a legislative or administrative action by the Governor of California or the State Legislature that will suspend or lift the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act provisions during the emergency period to allow local governments to enact rent increase moratoriums COVID-19 requires that governments at the local, county, state, and federal levels consider policies that ensure the protection of public health. Suspending Costa -Hawkins for at least the duration of the emergency period are steps to navigate and manage the fallout of the pandemic that is already occurring. Extending rent control measures provides opportunity to moderate the severe economic impacts of the pandemic. Dianne Prado, Esq. Executive Director s Mak v. City of Berkeley Rent Stabilization Bd., (2015) 240 Cal.App.4th 60, 68 (citing Action Apartment Assn., Inc. v. City of Santa Monica (2007) 41 Cal. 4th 1232, 1237). 6 Action Apartment Assn., Inc. v. City of Santa Monica (2007) 41 Cal. 4th 1232, 1237. 3612 110, AVENUE, LOS ANGELES, CA 90018 • TEL: (323) 643-4430• W W W.HEARTLA.ORG Protecting People, Pets, &their Homes Salas, Diana From: Soto, Daniel Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 6:03 PM To: eComment Subject: FW: Agenda Item 60A- Keep Rent Freeze In Place and Expand It. Daniel Soto ( Management Assistant City Manager's Offices dsoto@santa-ana ore (714) 647-5234 (office) 1 (714) 640-9788 (mobile) From: Carlos Perea <carlosiran1992@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 5:10 PM To: Pulido, Miguel <MPulido@santa-ana.org>; Sarmiento, Vicente <VSarmiento@santa-ana.org>; Villegas, Juan <JVillegas@santa-ana.org>; Iglesias, Cecilia <Clglesias@santa-ana.org>; Penaloza, David <DPenaloza@santa-ana.org>; Bacerra, Phil <pbacerra@santa-ana.org>; Solorio, Jose <JSolorio@santa-ana.org>; Ridge, Kristine <kridge@santa- ana.org> Subject: Agenda Item 60A- Keep Rent Freeze In Place and Expand It Hello Councilmembers and Mayor, The city has moved forward in a good and proactive direction with its emergency actions on evictions and freeze on rent increases. It is important for many residents in the city who have lost their jobs and have experienced reduction on wages due to this global pandemic I call on you to continue stand up for working class and immigrant residents in the city that have been economically impacted. I understand landlords who shamelessly want to continue to raise rents during this global crisis have been putting pressure on you. That is not just disappointing but morally wrong. I urge you to put residents first over special interests, keep rent freeze in place and expand it to 6 months. Thank you. Carlos Perea, West Santa Ana Resident. Salas, Diana From: Irene Bautista <irenebaut1958@icloud.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 6:17 PM To: eComment Subject: Defendiendo inquilinos de Santa Ana Sent from my Whone lq�