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Flores, Dora <br />From: Elizabeth Meza <info@email.actionnetwork.org> <br />Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020 12:46 PM <br />To: eComment <br />Subject: OPPOSITION to Agenda Item 7513: AMENDMENTS to Housing Opportunity Ordinance <br />and Affordable Housing Funds Policies and Procedures <br />E-Comments System, <br />Mayor Pulido and City Council Members, <br />I urgently write this message regarding the proposed amendments to the Santa Ana Housing <br />Opportunity Ordinance and the Affordable Housing Fund Policies and Procedures to express <br />my full opposition to the proposed amendments, and urge you to vote against them <br />Creating new affordable housing needs to continue to be a top housing priority in Santa Ana <br />The current pandemic has increased the economic and housing pressures on low-income <br />families in Santa Ana. Housing costs in Santa Ana have been out of reach and will continue <br />to be out of reach in this current economic climate. As incomes are decreasing and jobs are <br />being lost, many low income families are struggling to remain housed. <br />Now would be the absolute worst time possible to deplete the city's affordable housing <br />monies by weakening the Housing Opportunity Ordinance and by removing Cooperative <br />Housing programs as an eligible use for affordable housing funds <br />It is necessary that you: <br />1. Keep the In -Lieu fee that developers must pay when they choose not to build affordable <br />housing at $15 <br />2. Prohibit funding public safety programs with affordable housing monies <br />3. Allow affordable housing money to be used for Cooperative Housing Programs that can <br />create new affordable housing <br />While we don't know how much longer current shelter in place order will remain in effect, I <br />know for certain that the economic impact our families experienced will be felt for months and <br />years to come. Santa Ana residents, not Developers, need economic relief. <br />10 <br />