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Orozco, Norma From: Sandra Esmeralda De Anda < Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2018 1:53 PM To: Huizar, Maria; eComment Subject: Support Letter for Causa Justa Categories: Correspondence December 4th. 2018 Mayor Pulido and City Councilmembers City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza P.O. Bo 1988, M31 Santa Ana, CA 92701 RE: 85B: Support - Just Cause Evictions Ordinance OCIYU: We are an undocumented immigrant youth -led organization that advocates for the rights of undocumented immigrants to live lives free from exploitation and persecution. We seek to promote comprehensive solutions to the housing crisis including policies designed to keep tenants housed and further prevent homelessness. This includes protecting tenants from unjust evictions, from 2011- 2016 there were 2,201 evictions carried out by the Orange County Sheriffs Department. We know that the number of evictions is much higher as many evictions go unreported. The City has the ability to implement a Just Cause Evictions Ordinance and provide protections from unjust evictions to its most vulnerable tenants. This ordinance would only permit for tenants to be evicted for the following reasons: 1. Failure to Pay Rent 2. Breach of Lease 3. Nuisance 4. Illegal Purpose 5. Refusal to Execute New Lease 6. Failure to Give Access 7. Subtenant in Sole Possession 8. Owner Move -in 9. Necessary and Substantial Repairs Requiring Temporary Vacancy 10. Withdrawal of the Unit Permanently from Rental Market 11. Government Order 12. Vacating an Unpermitted Rental Unit This ordinance would establish specific reasons for which a tenant can be evicted. It will allow for landlords to evict their tenants when there is a just reason and it will protect tenants from unjust evictions such as retaliatory evictions in response to requests for repairs to their unit and Code Enforcement inspections. Tenants who are displaced by landlord actions such as evictions are faced with unfair burdens. Landlords often require that prospective tenants pay the equivalent of three months' rent up front to secure a lease—generally representing the first and last month's rent, and a security deposit. The total accumulated cost imposed on a displaced household generally exceeds $10,000 and can frequently reach $20,000 or greater. Tenants who are seniors, persons with disabilities, or have children incur even higher costs due to their particular circumstances. Low- and moderate -income tenants cannot afford such sudden and costly expenses, and they often experience homelessness as a direct consequence of eviction, which itself imposes further financial, social, health, and emotional costs. The severe financial impacts of displacement on tenants pose a threat to the public health, and safety, and welfare of the residents in the City of Santa Ana. M