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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 /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />The Kennedy Commission is a broad coalition of residents and community organizations that advocates <br />for the production of homes affordable for families earning less than $20,000 annually in Orange County. <br />Formed in 2001, the Commission has been successful in partnering and working with jurisdiction in <br />Orange County to create effective policies that has led to the new construction of homes affordable to <br />lower income working families. <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 />from 2011- 2016 there were 2,201 evictions carried out by the Orange County Sheriffs Department. We <br />know that the number of evictions is much higher as many evictions go unreported, and that a significant <br />number of evictions are carried out without just cause. <br />The City has the ability to implement a Just Cause Evictions Ordinance and provide protections <br />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 Unpermitted Rental Unit <br />This ordinance would establish specific reasons for which a tenant can be evicted. It will allow for <br />landlords to evict their tenants when there is a just reason and it will protect tenants from unjust evictions <br />such as retaliatory evictions in response to requests for repairs to their unit and Code Enforcement <br />inspections. Tenants who are displaced by landlord actions such as evictions are faced with unfair burdens. <br />Landlords often require that prospective tenants pay the equivalent of three months' rent up front to secure <br />a lease—generally representing the first and last month's rent, and a security deposit. <br />for change <br />ofhomes'affordable <br />Orange <br />low-income <br />systemic resulting in the production <br />to <br />County's extremely <br />households <br />