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Flores, Dora <br />From: Houston, Nicole <br />Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 4:24 PM <br />To: eComment <br />Subject: FW: OPPOSITION to Agenda Item 7513: AMENDMENTS to Housing Opportunity <br />Ordinance and Affordable Housing Funds Policies and Procedures <br />From: Nancy Mejia [maiIto:info@email.actionnetwork.org] <br />Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020 3:57 PM <br />To: Pulido, Miguel <MPulido@santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: OPPOSITION to Agenda Item 756: AMENDMENTS to Housing Opportunity Ordinance and Affordable Housing <br />Funds Policies and Procedures <br />Miguel Pulido, <br />Mayor Pulido and City Council Members, <br />I write this message regarding the proposed amendments to <br />the Santa Ana Housing Opportunity Ordinance and the <br />Affordable Housing Fund Policies and Procedures to express <br />my full opposition to the proposed amendments, and urge you <br />to vote against them. <br />As a property owner and concerned citizen of Santa Ana, I <br />strongly believe that creating new affordable housing needs to <br />continue to be a top housing priority in Santa Ana. The current <br />pandemic has increased the economic and housing pressures <br />on low-income families in Santa Ana. Housing costs in Santa <br />Ana have been out of reach and will continue to be out of <br />reach in this current economic climate. As incomes are <br />decreasing and jobs are being lost, many low income families <br />are struggling to remain housed. <br />Now would be the absolute worst time possible to deplete the <br />city's affordable housing monies by weakening the Housing <br />