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September 18, 2018 <br />MIX <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 />Mix Academy's mission is to make everyone feel seen, cared for by the giving of our talents <br />and by seeing the beauty, history and pain of each others story. <br />The need for housing affordable to low-wage earners in Orange County, California, is <br />enormous. <br />Ranked among the top ten least affordable metropolitan areas In the country['], Orange <br />County Is suffering from an affordable housing crisis. A resident must earn at least $36.08 per <br />hour to afford a two-bedroom apartment at a fair market rent of $1,876 a month.121 As rents <br />and the number of residents needing affordable homes have continually increased, the number <br />of affordable homes being built for lower income households has not kept up with the <br />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.131 With lower wages that are not <br />keeping up with rising rents, many renting families continue to struggle financially to live and <br />work in this City. Approximately 60 percent of renter households are lower Income 141 and 84 <br />percent of residents held moderate and low-income occupations that paid less than $53,500 <br />per year.151 In order for rent to be affordable, only 30 percent of an individual's Income should <br />be used towards housing costs. Unfortunately, 57 percent of renters overpaid or spent more <br />than 30 percent of their income towards housing costs. [61 <br />ti1 Out of Reach 2018• The High Cost of Housing, National Low Income Housing Coalition, p. <br />14, 2018. <br />121 Out of Reach 2018- The High Cost of Housing, National Low Income Housing Coalition, p. <br />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, p. 14, January 2014. <br />151 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 />1010 W. 17" St. Santa Ana, CA 92706 1 www.MixAcaderny.org I ino(r7mixacademY org