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Lopez, Kenia From: MJ Baretich < Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 12:33 PM To: eComment Subject: 2019-04-16 SPEECH BY MARY JO BARETICH Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged April 16, 2019 Good Evening Mayor and Council Members, My name is Mary Jo Baretich. I am the Golden State Manufactured -home Owners League (GSMOL) Zone C Vice President for LA Orange and San Bernardino Counties, and a former GSMOL State President. 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. 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 economic eviction, causing the loss of their homes and everything they have saved and paid for all their lives. Many still have mortgage. They need protection. 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 citizens, especially the elderly citizens who are in their 70's, 80's and 90's. Something has to be done! We would like to work with you to address these serious problems by suggesting that a study be started regarding these extreme rent increases. A Moratorium on mobilehome rent increases is one option that has worked successfully throughout State while a mobilehome Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO) is prepared and reviewed. There are currently 110 cities and counties in the State that have RSO's. GSMOL has been working closely with mobilehome homeowners in 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. The GSMOL Corporate Attorney Bruce E. Stanton, Esq. is the expert on RSO's in California, having written numerous ones throughout the State. His advisory services will be available to the City. The latest RSO that GSMOL has been supporting is for the unincorporated areas of LA County. We had been working closely with the LA County Board of Supervisors and they consequently placed a Moratorium on the rents at 3% max increases while the RSO is being written and reviewed. The Rent Stabilization Ordinance should be completed prior to the end of 2019. This can also be accomplished in Santa Ana. Please protect these vulnerable citizens to save their homes and allow them to live their lives in a dignified and safe mobilehome community. Thank you for listening to me this evening, I