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April 16, 2019 Mayor Pulido and City Council Members City of Santa Ana 22 Civic Center Plaza Santa Ana, CA 92701 RE: Agenda Item 485A: Discuss and Consider Giving Direction to Staff to Provide Options Regarding the City's Ability to Address Rent Increases in Mobile home Parks Dear Mayor Pulido and City Council Members: Orange County Communities Organized for Responsible Development's (OCCORD) mission is to bring workers, families and community partners together to organize and advocate for good jobs, strong neighborhoods and an inclusive democracy in Orange County. OCCORD urges the City to take action and move forward in directing staff to analyze and provide effective options to protect residents by addressing sky rocketing rent increases at the City's mobile home parks. The City should be proactive and commit to ensuring the mobile home park residents and their livelihood are protected. In addition, the Commission recommends the City to take the following actions: 1) Meaningfully outreach and engage mobile home park residents to thoroughly analyze the impacts of excessive rent increases. Residents should also have an opportunity to address their concerns and be part of the.process to identify: effective options in addressing excessive rent increases. 2) Adopt a city-wide ordinance or moratorium to temporarily stop rent increases at mobile home parks and to ensure the impacts of excessive rent increases on residents are properly addressed. 3) Implement effective rent regulations, such as a city-wide Rent Stabilization Ordinance, that will not only protect residents from excessive rent increase but will also allow landlords to increase rent each year by a specific rate/ fair amount. Ranked among the top ten least affordable metropolitan areas in the country', Orange County is suffering from an affordable housing crisis. A resident must earn at least $36.08 per hour to afford a two-bedroom apartment at a fair market rent of $1,876 a month.' Over the past seven years, Orange County renters have paid an average of $355 more a month and rents are projected to 'Out of Reach 2018 -The High Cost of Housing, National Low Income Housine Coalition, p14, 2018. 7 Out of Reach 201 & The High Cost of Housing, National Low Income Housing Coalition, p.39,2018.