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seven percent (47%), compared to a homeownership rate of over fifty-nine percent (59%) in Orange County generally in 2016. (g) Tenants who play by the rules should not have to worry constantly about being evicted from their homes for no reason. Common-sense protections against unfair evictions are needed in the City of Santa Ana to protect long-time and low-income residents from landlords who try to game the system to take advantage of all-time high rents. (h) The City of Santa Ana is the second (2nd) largest of the 34 cities in Orange County. In 2010, the City of Santa Ana's estimated population of 324,528 represented approximately 11 percent of Orange County's total population, ranking the City of Santa Ana as the second most populated city in Orange County behind Anaheim. As of the 2010 Census, the City of Santa Ana has 76,896 housing units. Multi -family housing comprises 41 percent of all housing, of which 10 percent are duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes. (i) The People of the City of Santa Ana recognize the value of homeownership, and specifically the value of local ownership of rental housing. As such, the Ordinance seeks to balance tenant protections with the rights and interests of residents in the City of Santa Ana who own their homes. 0) Since the mid -2000s, residents in the City of Santa Ana have proactively expressed their concerns to the City Council regarding displacement, gentrification, and rising rents in the City of Santa Ana. During this same time period, residents in the City of Santa Ana began hosting educational forums for residents on the issues of rent control and just cause eviction protections. (k) According to the U.S. Census Bureau 2016 American Community Survey, residents in the City of Santa Ana have a median household income of just over $54,062, compared to a median income of more than $78,145 for Orange County. The average rent for two bedroom apartment in Santa Ana is $1,876, a four percent (4%) increase compared to the previous year of 2017, when the average rent was $1,813. At the same time, according to city and census reports, the median household income fell by 1.5 percent during that time period in the City of Santa Ana. (1) Renter households are more likely to be low-income than families who own their homes. The City of Santa Ana's 2014-2021 Housing Element states that more than fifty percent of households (54%) in the City of Santa Ana have incomes that are less than 80 percent (80%) of the Area Median Income (AMI), the low-income threshold as defined by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department. (in) A household is considered rent burdened if it spends more than 30 percent (30%) of its gross income on housing costs. According to the City of Santa Ana's 2014-2021 Housing Element, approximately fifty-seven percent (57%) of all renter households in the City of Santa Ana are low-income and rent burdened, which is approximately 21,496 households in the City of Santa Ana.