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(n) The increasing housing rent burden and poverty faced by many residents in the City of Santa Ana threatens the health, safety, and welfare of its residents by forcing them to choose between paying rent and providing food, clothing, and medical care for themselves and their families. (o) The State of California's Housing Element Law (Gov. Code §§65580-65589.8, and §§65751-65761 (including the State of California's Housing Accountability Act, Gov. Code §65589.5, §65598.6), requires that the City of Santa Ana encourage the production of a variety of housing types; and identify adequate sites for affordable housing for persons at extremely low - very -low, low-, and moderate -income levels. (p) The City of Santa Ana has a Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) for 2014-2021 of 204 units with a carryover from the previous planning period of 201 lower income units, for a combined RHNA total of 405 units divided into four income groups (very-low,(which includes extremely -low), low-, moderate-, and above -moderate income). This number includes 156 units for very -low, 122 units for low-, 37 units for moderate-, and 90 units for above - moderate income households. Given the challenges in meeting the existing and projected housing needs lower-income residents in the City of Santa Ana, the regulation of rents is a vital tool to maintain the affordability of a significant portion of the housing supply within a reasonable time frame. (q) The City of Santa Ana's 2014-2021 Housing Element, citing to recent American Community Survey Reports, states many low-income residents in the City of Santa Ana experience overcrowding, overpayment, or both. Approximately thirty-three (33%) percent of residents in the City of Santa Ana live in overcrowded living conditions. Approximately twenty- one percent (21 %) of homeowners in Santa Ana live in overcrowded conditions, as compared to forty-three (43%) percent of renters in the City of Santa Ana. Approximately forty-three (43%) percent of residents in the City of Santa Ana overpay for their housing. The prevalence of housing overpayment in the City of Santa Ana is far greater among renters, as fifty-seven (57%) percent of residents overpay in housing costs, compared to thirty-nine (39%) percent of homeowners in the City of Santa Ana. (r) The City of Santa Ana is the 7th largest school district in California, and the largest in Orange County. Approximately ninety-one (91 %) percent of the student population enrolled in the Santa Ana Unified School District is eligible for free or reduced -price meals. In 2016-2017, there were 55,144 children enrolled in the Santa Ana Unified School District. Of this number, 7,306, or 13.2% identified as homeless. Evictions and displacement impose an especially high burden on school -aged children and their families, including increased absences from school and other educational disruption that can have long-lasting effects such as impacts on mental and physical health, as well as school and social hardships for the children and their families? Eviction's Fallout., Housing, Hardship, and Health, (Feb. 2015), Social Forces, available at htti)://nlihc.ore/sites/default/files/DesmondKimbro Evictions Fallout SF2015.ndf (last accessed November 27, 2018). .O W