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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: 8513: Support - Just Cause Evictions Ordinance <br />Our Mission is to bring workers, families and community partners together to organize <br />and advocate for good jobs, strong neighborhoods and an inclusive democracy in Orange <br />County. <br />We seek to promote comprehensive solutions to the housing crisis including policies designed to <br />keep tenants housed and further prevent homelessness. This includes protecting tenants from <br />unjust evictions, from 2011- 2016 there were 2,201 evictions carried out by the Orange County <br />Sheriffs Department. We know that the number of evictions is much higher as many evictions <br />go unreported. The City has the ability to implement a Just Cause Evictions Ordinance and <br />provide protections from unjust evictions to its most vulnerable tenants. <br />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 Unpennitted Rental Unit <br />This ordinance would establish specific reasons for which a tenant can be evicted. It will allow <br />for landlords to evict their tenants when there is a just reason and it will protect tenants from <br />unjust evictions such as retaliatory evictions in response to requests for repairs to their unit and <br />Code Enforcement inspections. Tenants who are displaced by landlord actions such as evictions <br />are faced with unfair burdens. Landlords often require that prospective tenants pay the equivalent <br />