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IMINIoccco•�011e%b together in faith, forward for justice <br />December 4th, 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: 85B: Support - Just Cause Evictions Ordinance <br />Orange County Congregation Community Organization (OCCCO) is an interfaith -based social justice <br />non-profit 501(c)(3) community organization. We work with and represent congregations and communities in <br />the cities of Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Fullerton, and Santa Ana. Over the past four years, we have engaged <br />voters in 60,000 conversations to pass local and state policies in service of our mission: to develop <br />transformational leaders within diverse, multicultural, interfaith communities who together have the power to <br />shape equitable public policy throughout Orange County. <br />We seek to promote comprehensive solutions to the housing crisis including policies designed to keep <br />tenants housed and further prevent homelessness. This includes protecting tenants from unjust evictions. <br />The Orange County Sheriff Department carried out 2,201 evictions by the from 2011- 2016. We know that <br />the number of evictions is much higher as many evictions go unreported. The City has the ability to <br />implement a Just Cause Evictions Ordinance and provide protections from unjust evictions to its most <br />vulnerable tenants. This ordinance would only permit for tenants to be evicted for the following reasons: <br />1. Failure to Pay Rent <br />2. Breach of Lease <br />3. Nuisance <br />4. Illegal Purpose <br />5. Refusal to Execute New Lease <br />6. Failure to Give Access <br />7. Subtenant in Sole Possession <br />8. Owner Move -in <br />9. Necessary and Substantial Repairs Requiring Temporary Vacancy <br />10. Withdrawal of the Unit Permanently from Rental Market <br />11. Government Order <br />12.Vacating an Unpermitted Rental Unit <br /> <br />1 <br />