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Western <br />w Manufactured Housing Communities <br />Association <br />May 20, 2019 <br />Mayor Miguel Pulido <br />City of Santa Ana <br />PO Box 1988, M31 <br />Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />RE: 65A. RECEIVE AND FILE RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION <br />ON MOBILE HOME PARKS <br />Dear Mayor Pulido <br />The Western Manufactured Housing Community Association (WMA) is a <br />statewide trade association, which represents mobile home park owners <br />throughout California. WMA is always against government fixed price housing <br />and rent control policies. <br />The presented Staff Report to fulfill council's request for more information on <br />Santa Ana's 29 mobile home parks was exhaustively comprehensive. After <br />reading all 288 pages, it is clear, Santa Ana has affordable, well -maintained and <br />professionally managed mobile home parks. This would never have be the case <br />under a rent control scheme. <br />POSSIBLE OPTIONS FOR CITY COUNCIL AND TENANTS <br />The staff report provides a road map of policies the city can adopt to address <br />concerns or potential problems. They are outlined as 1) Regulations of rents as <br />affordable housing 2) Ensuring residents have a say in how the park they live in <br />is improved, and an avenue for making complaints if it is not being take care of <br />properly and 3) a path towards resident owners. <br />However, for all the remedies provided in the Staff Report, no citywide problems <br />in Santa Ana have been identified. There is no evidence of citywide excessive <br />rent increases or spiking, park closures or subdividing. <br />One glaring omission from the Staff Report is any data to explain the costs <br />associated with a mobile home rent control ordinance. Perhaps that is because <br />the council didn't specifically ask for it? However it is an important aspect to the <br />regulation you must consider. Our association has dealt with jurisdictions that <br />have enacted rent control and it is extraordinary expensive to administer. In a <br />2012 study by the San Diego Taxpayer Advocate, Oceanside Rent Control — <br />Costly to Oceanside Taxpayers, An Analysis of the Fiscal Impacts of Rent <br />Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association <br /> <br /> <br />&W <br />