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Flores, Dora <br />From: Houston, Nicole <br />Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020 1:45 PM <br />To: eComment_Forwarding <br />Subject: FW: OPPOSITION to Agenda Item 7513: AMENDMENTS to Housing Opportunity <br />Ordinance and Affordable Housing Funds Policies and Procedures <br />From: Ryan Zinn [maiIto:info@email.actionnetwork.org] <br />Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020 12:22 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 />Creating new affordable housing needs to continue to be a top <br />housing priority in Santa Ana. The current pandemic has <br />increased the economic and housing pressures on low- <br />income families in Santa Ana. Housing costs in Santa Ana <br />have been out of reach and will continue to be out of reach in <br />this current economic climate. As incomes are decreasing and <br />jobs are being lost, many low income families are struggling to <br />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 />