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Title: The dismantling of Santa Ana's Housing Opportunity Ordinance is bad policy and bad <br />politics. <br />Excerpt: The Santa Ana City Council is abandoning the City's commitment to affordable <br />housing by gutting the Housing Opportunity Ordinance (HOO) at a time when rent -burdened <br />residents struggle to pay rent. The City Council is granting millions of dollars in unnecessary <br />handouts to developers instead of maximizing the public benefit of the City's valuable land. <br />Social media line: "In the coming months the Santa Ana Arts Collective and Tiny Tim Plaza <br />projects funded by HOO fees will be completed. We have no doubt that each of the Council <br />Members that voted to cut their source funding will also show up to cut the ribbons on opening <br />day." <br />Manny Escamilla Bio: Manny Escamilla is a local historian, urban planner, and lifelong Santa <br />Ana resident. He's a graduate from SAC, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. Manny worked with the City <br />of Santa Ana for 14 years prior to transitioning into public policy advocacy with fellow <br />residents. <br />Peter Bio: Peter Garcia is a transportation planner and mobility justice advocate with Santa Ana <br />Active Streets Coalition. A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles's Luskin <br />School of Public Affairs, Garcia analyzes how race, class, and power interact with transportation <br />policy and finance. <br />