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UNITEHERE! <br />LOCAL 77 <br />September 18, 2018 <br />Mayor Pulido and City Councilmembers <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza <br />P.O Bo 1988, M31 <br />Santa Ana,CA 92701 <br />RE: Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report <br />Support Development of a Tenant Based Rental Assistance Program <br />UNITE HERE Local 11 represents more than 5,000 hard working men and women employed in <br />hotels, restaurants, ariports, and convention centers throught Orange County, many of whom live <br />in the City of Santa Ana. <br />The need for housing affordable to low-wage earners in Orange County, California, is enormous. <br />Ranked among the top ten least affordable metropolitan areas in the countrylll, Orange County is <br />suffering from an affordable housing crisis. A resident must earn at least $36.08 per hour to <br />afford a two-bedroom apartment at a fair market rent of $1,876 a monthPl As rents and the <br />number of residents needing affordable homes have continually increased, the number of <br />affordable homes being built for lower income households has not kept up with the demand. <br />The average asking rents is the City is $1,687, which is a nine percent increase from the year <br />before and rents are expected to continue to increase. E31 With lower wages that are not keeping up <br />with rising rents, many renting families continue to struggle financially to live and work in this <br />City. Approximately 60 percent of renter households are lower income [41 and 84 percent of <br />residents held moderate and low-income occupations that paid less than $53,500 per year.151 In <br />order for rent to be affordable, only 30 percent of an individual's income should be used towards <br />housing costs. Unfortunately, 57 percent of renters overpaid or spent more than 30 percent <br />of their income towards housing cpsts.161 <br />11] Out of Reach 2018- The High Cost of Housing, National Low Income Housing Coalition, p. 14, 2018.. <br />IZ1 Out of Reach 2018- The High Cost of Housing, National Low Income Housing Coalition, it. 38, 2018. <br />131 O.C. Rents forecast to rise 9,4% by 2018. <br />141 City of Santa Ana General Plan Housing Element 2014-2021, It. 14, January 2014. <br />I51 City of Santa Ana General Plan Housing Element 2014-2021, p. 12, January 2014. <br />161 City of Santa Ana General Plan Housing Element 2014-2021, p. 20, January 2014. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />-s -nl <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />