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Orozco, Norma <br />From: <br />Houston, Nicole <br />Sent: <br />Tuesday, June 04, 2019 1:20 PM <br />To: <br />eComment <br />Subject: <br />FW: Please consider a Rent Stabilization Ordinance to protect mobilehomes in your city <br />Kind Regards, <br />Nicole Houston [ Executive Assistant <br />City Manager's Offices nhouston@santa-ana.orx <br />714.647.5200 120 Civic Center Plaza l Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />This email and any files or attachments transmitted with it may contain privileged or otherwise confidential information. If you are <br />not the intended recipient, or believe that you may have received this communication in error, please advise the sender via reply <br />email and immediately delete the email you received. <br />From: CAROL BRINKMAN [ <br />Sent: Monday, June 03, 2019 6:05 PM <br />To: Pulido, Miguel <MPulido@santa-ana.org>; Sarmiento, Vicente <VSarmiento@santa-ana.org>; Penaloza, David <br /><DPenaloza@santa-ana.org>; Solorio, Jose <JSolorio@santa-ana.org>; Villegas, Juan <JVillegas@santa-ana.org>; Iglesias, <br />Cecilia <Clglesias@santa-ana.org>; City Council <CityCouncil@santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: Please consider a Rent Stabilization Ordinance to protect mobilehomes in your city. <br />Honorable Mayor and Santa Ana Councilmembers, <br />Please listen to the urgent pleas of the mobilehome residents in your city to stop exorbitant rent increases by <br />implementing a Rent Stabilization Ordinance to protect them from excessive space rent increases — and, to <br />protect the park owners by providing them a process to receive a fair and justifiable return on their investment if <br />they feel the automatic CPI increases are not enough. <br />I speak from first hand experience. I live in El Nido Mobilehome Estates located in San Juan Capistrano. Our <br />City has a MH rent stabilization ordinance that ties annual rent increases to the CPI-U. It was designed to <br />provide a balance of affordable housing for seniors and low-income families in accordance with the SJC <br />Housing Element and in recognition that mobilehomes are a form of unsubsidized affordable housing. Our city <br />understood the need to protect these unique groups. <br />In 2016, when my park owner tried to raise my $600 space rent by $641 instead of the $8 allowed by the CPI, <br />there was a process to follow that was prescribed by the Ordinance. The residents filed a protest with the City <br />claiming the increase was excessive, and the Park owner had the opportunity to "justify" his desired rent <br />increase as "fair" in front of an outside, unbiased Hearing Officer. In the end, the Park owner was able to justify <br />a $37 increase. It was a win for him who got more than the CPI, and a win for the residents who paid less than <br />the $641 requested. <br />Our Rent Stabilization Ordinance did what it was suppose to do. It protected vulnerable lower -income citizens <br />from egregious space rent increases by providing a protest process! And it protected the Park owner by <br />I <br />