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As CLUE, we educate, organize, and mobilize the faith community to accompany workers and their families in their struggle for good jobs, dignity, and justice. C LU E b" August 18, 2020 Mayor Pulido and City Council Members Clergy a laity united City of Santa Ana far Ecoronnic Justice 20 Civic Center Plaza Board of Directors Rabbi Dr. Aryeh Cohen Santa Ana, CA 92701 American Jewish University Chair Re: OPPOSITION to Agenda Item 7513: AMENDMENTS to Housing Opportunity Mary Stancavage Meditation Coalition Ordinance and Affordable Housing Funds Policies and Procedures Chair Derek Smith Dear Mayor Pulido and City Councilmembers, UFCW 324 Treasurer As CLUE, we educate, organize, and mobilize the faith community to accompany Shakeel Syed American Muslims for Palestine workers and their families in their struggle for good jobs, dignity, and justice. Secretary Vivian Rothstein Santa Monica CLUE Committee Our letter of opposition to the proposed amendments to the Housing Chair of Personnel Opportunity Ordinance and Affordable Housing Funds Policies and Michael Soto Procedures is joined by over 80 letters of opposition sent to the Planning NUHW Chair of Development Commission on Monday, August 3rd from Santa Ana residents and Rev. Jim Conn organizations that serve Santa Ana residents. All those in opposition understand United Methodist Church (Ret.) that as working families continue to face economic uncertainty because of the Rabbi Dr. Stephen J. Einstein ongoing COVID-19 pandemic it is crucial that the City preserve its Housing Congregation B&nai Tzedek Opportunity Ordinance (HOO) as a funding source for creating new affordable Rev. Dr. saran Halverson- Cano housing. The creation of housing at all income levels is vital to our Fairview Community Church recovery. Creating new affordable housing needs to continue to be a top housing Betty Hung, Esq. priority in Santa Ana. UCLA Labor Center Griselda Mariscal SEIU-UHW The City of Santa Ana is a renter majority city and despite the City's progress Glynndana Shevlin towards meeting its Regional Housing Needs Assessment(RHNA) allocation for Disney Worker, UNITE HERE 11 very low and income housing there continues to be a great need for housing that is Bishop Mary Ann Swenson affordable to its residents. The current pandemic has increased the economic and United Methodist Church (Ret.) housing pressures on low-income families in Santa Ana. As incomes are Ali Tweini Teamsters Local 2010 decreasing and jobs are being lost, many low income families are struggling to Rev. Gary Williams remain housed. This is especially true for the majority of Santa Ana's low-income Saint Mark Methodist Church households that are suffering with the impacts of housing cost and economic Staff uncertainty. As an example, according to the City's local data, 70 percent of Santa Michelle Seyler, J.D. Ana renters are low and very low-income renters. While the city has seen increased Executive Director Jeremy Arnold production of affordable housing there has been a larger increase of above Program Director moderate housing with the cty's 2,409 RHNA above moderate allocation being Rev. Rebecca Di exceeded by 2,677% per the City's RHNA progress reports submitted to the r Developmentt Director Rev. Juan Carlos Durruthy state. With average rents of $2000 - $4000, none of these above market rent units Faith -Rooted Organizer are affordable to most of Santa Ana's working families. Lucero Garcia Faith -Rooted Organizer Ashley Gonzales The need will be much greater as the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated needs Faith -Rooted Organizer David Jaimes that were already existing in our communities. Housing costs in Santa Ana have Faith -Rooted Organizer been out of reach and will continue to be out of reach in this current economic Pastor Cue ra climate. Households that live in the 92701 zip code, the cty's most affordable zip Faith -Rooted Organizer Kevin Johnson code, must earn $35.68 an hour to afford two -bedroom housing. (National Low Operations Manager Income Housing Coalition's "Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing in 2020" Adam Overton Faith -Rooted Organizer Guillermo Torres Director of Immigration 464 Lucas Ave #202 • Los Angeles, CA 90017 • 213481 3740 • wvrvvrvv.cluejustice.org 9 Printed in-house