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On creating safe and sanitary housing, we believe that reducing health and environmental hazards in housing need to be addressed by: ● Encourage property owners/landlords to take action to ensure that homes where smoking is a concern have access to purifiers to keep the air clean and circulating ● Have routine code enforcement inspections for multi-unit housing ● Develop and strengthen a process and program where tenants can call in to the city to report housing issues such as pests and maintenance repairs when landlords do not listen to their requests. Provide protections against landlord retaliation ● Create a Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (LPPP) that provides services to the community to increase awareness regarding the sources of lead, to reduce lead exposures by providing aid to homeowners and landlords to address lead paint in old homes, and to increase the number of children assessed and tested for lead poisoning ● Increase the amount of affordable housing, accessible to low income residents at or below 50% AMI (area median income) with an emphasis on housing available at the extremely low income level, regardless of documentation status, criminal records, or other considerations ● Create a process to implement the state required duty to affirmatively further Fair Housing (AFFH, AB 686) by identifying and removing barriers to affordable housing development in the City ● Work with the State to create localized Area Median Income to more accurately determine housing affordability levels for Santa Ana residents whose median income is lower than the County’s median income. Encourage adoption of the Small Area Fair Market Rent Model to diversify housing choice and opportunity for the City’s residents who reside in low income communities ● Implement, enforce, and monitor of AB 341 (Mandatory Commercial and Multifamily/Apartment Recycling Reporting Form) Promoting Physical Activity On increasing physical activity, we believe that creating a network of safe outdoor and indoor spaces and facilities, with a focus on underserved areas need to be addressed by: ● In addition to increasing total park space, increase safe spaces for physical recreation such as walking, skating, bicycling, and other outdoor activities that are not traditionally seen in parks ● Installing and maintaining equipment for exercise at recreation centers and neighborhood parks ● Create safe connectivity between bike lanes to parks, schools, community centers, and other spaces of recreation ● Create street types that aim to reduce bicycle and pedestrian fatalities, e.g. road diets, complete streets ● Decriminalize bicycle and pedestrian mobility by shifting law enforcement involvement in traffic and public space enforcement by adding public space and transit ambassadors, social workers, and mental health professionals ● Create a resident ambassador program that pays residents to organize other residents in maintaining safety in their neighborhoods