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January 15, 2019 Mayor Pulido and City Councilmembers City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza P.O. Bo 1988, M31 Santa Ana,CA 92701 RE: Support 80A: Santa Ana United Methodist Church project Vecindario Lacy en Accion (VeLA) is a group of residents from the Lacy neighborhood that have united to advocate for their community. The group includes: mothers, fathers, students, individuals with special abilities and community leaders that share the vision of improving the quality of life in their neighborhood and the city of Santa Ana. All with the purpose of creating more opportunities for families to succeed. We request that you support the Santa Ana United Methodist Church project. This project will benefit our neighborhood and the City of Santa Ana as a whole by providing dignified and affordable housing. There is a great need for housing that is affordable to families with extremely low incomes. We know this because we live, see, and hear the stories of families that are struggling to retain stable housing. Families in our neighborhood and in Santa Ana are doing whatever they can to get by, this includes living in substandard and overcrowded housing conditions. Living in overcrowded units is not only uncomfortable but it can also be dangerous. We fear for the danger that our children are being placed in when families have to rent rooms and living rooms to strangers in order to make ends meet. There are 1,361 registered sex offenders in the 92701 area code, many of these individuals could be sharing living space with the children in our neighborhood. Our children are our future and it is them who will benefit the most from accessible affordable housing the most. The Santa Ana Unified School District currently has 5,962 students that are defined as homeless in accordance with The McKinney-Vento Act. This number is increasing on a daily basis and we need the City to take action to help these students and their families. Our students and families should have access to housing that they can afford in their neighborhood and city. They should not be experiencing homelessness and they should not be displaced from their communities. This project is 100% affordable and provides permanent supportive housing along with units at 30% Area Median Income, these units will be affordable to families with extremely low incomes. We need more units that are affordable to families with extremely low incomes. We so