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Orozco, Norma From: Houston, Nicole Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 11:06 AM To: eComment Subject: FW: MORATORIUM ON MOBILEHOME RENT INCREASES Kind Regards, Nicole Houston I Executive Assistant City Manager's Office) nhouston@santa-ana.ora 714.647.5200 120 Civic Center Plaza I Santa Ana, CA 92701 This email and any files or attachments transmitted with it may contain privileged or otherwise confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, or believe that you may have received this communication in error, please advise the sender via reply email and immediately delete the email you received. From: MJ Baretich [mailto: Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 8:36 AM To: Pulido, Miguel <MPulido@santa-ana.org> Subject: MORATORIUM ON MOBILEHOME RENT INCREASES Dear Mayor Pulido, It has come to our attention that seniors, veterans, disabled and other low-income mobilehome homeowners in the City of Santa Ana are being threatened with economical eviction, causing the loss of their homes and everything they have saved and paid for all their lives. They need protection. These are people who have either spent their life -savings on a home or have mortgages on their home and are now facing extreme threats of rent increases for the piece of dirt that their mobilehome sits upon in the mobilehome parks. Many have no family and are facing the horrible prospect of being homeless and living among the habitual druggies and others who prey upon these elderly citizens who are in their 70's, 80's and 90's. Something has to be done! We wish to propose a Moratorium on mobilehome rent increases for a period of 180 days with a maximum increase of 3% while a mobilehome Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO) is prepared and reviewed, also capping the rent increases at 3%, and a vacancy control at 3.5% rather than the excessive amounts being forced upon these citizens. There are currently RSO's in 110 cities and counties in the State. The Golden State Manufactured -home Owners League, Inc. (GSMOL) has been working closely with mobilehome homeowners in Santa Ana, Anaheim, Fullerton and Westminster to help institute a fair Rent Stabilization Ordinance in each of these cities which would allow the park owners a fair return on their investments and also enable the homeowners to be able to afford to live in the homes that they spent their life - savings on. GSMOL is a statewide advocacy that fights for the rights of mobilehome homeowners at the local level and at the Legislative level and has been successful since 1962 in getting laws passed to protect all people living in mobilehome parks. The GSMOL Corporate Attorney Bruce E. Stanton, Esq. is the expert on RSO's in California, having written numerous ones throughout the State. His services will be available to the City.