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C�� 110`�� I✓ Iglesia de la Comunidad Santa Ana PNxs U4 ^ [WO �� AT� TENANTS TOGETHER * Aca_ss , c'� SA4A ANA e UNITED METHODIST CHURCH fiyy� CHIRLA lbtlerfnllb } ' A i110.1t ..-- a nnooro,l, h" �4 ,�favr/! Buading Healthy imm „m nnu church d,[ l�aCi51f1�1 ! t'i. J 675 Communities Tenants United Santa Ana et al. Sent via email Santa Ana, California May 5, 2020 City Council of the City of Santa Ana Santa Ana, California Re: Municipal Executive Order No. 2-2020 Dear Mayor Miguel Pulido and the City Council Members of Santa Ana, On behalf of residents of Santa Ana, Tenants United Santa Ana, and organizations signed below, we want to acknowledge and extend our thanks for your response to our demands on implementing local housing protections for residents in Santa Ana. Your actions have included establishing an eviction moratorium for those financially impacted by COVID-19 and enacting a rent freeze on rent increases until May 3lst or until Governor Newsome's emergency order is lifted. However, these protections are not enough. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Orange County have been consistently growing with approximately 2,819 confirmed cases so far (as of 05/04/20)I. We must do better to ensure Santa Ana residents are protected from experiencing financial insecurity, displacement, and homelessness. Therefore, we demand that you maintain and extend the enacted emergency rent freeze. This will mitigate the detrimental housing consequences this pandemic has had and will continue to have for Santa Ana residents. As community volunteers in Santa Ana, we have been directly responding to the pressing needs of residents, even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Since April Ist, Tenants United Santa Ana has experienced an increased call volume of over 1700% from Santa Ana residents regarding landlord tenant issues. Residents are financially unequipped to weather these economic disruptions with a large share of city residents being extremely low-income renters and of mixed -status households. We cannot expect for people to be able to pay back overdue and current rent during a six-month period while potentially experiencing rent increases at the same time. Santa Ana residents have jobs where remote work and paid sick leave benefits do not exist. We are also more likely to be uninsured and have less access to adequate health care. In addition, many residents in Santa Ana are ineligible for federal COVID-19 relief benefits because they are undocumented or are married to someone who is undocumented2. Additionally, with one in every five eligible workers filing for unemployment claims, no resident should be faced with