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1 <br />local data, 80 percent of Santa Ana renters are moderate, low and very low-income renters. Yet <br />the most significant increase of housing has been in the above moderate housing category. The <br />City has approved 2,409 above moderate income units. <br /> <br />2 <br />Housing and Community Development. With above moderate average rents of $2000 - <br />$4000 in these developments, none of these above market rent units are affordable to most <br />3 <br />. Since 80% of renters in Santa Ana fall into the moderate, <br />low and very low income category and 84 percent of residents hold low-income occupations that <br />pay less than $53,500 per year, the majority of these new rental housing units are not available to <br />4 <br />address the housing needs of most working families in Santa Ana. <br />5 <br />predominantly families comprising 81% of households. These households are also rent <br />6 <br />burdened and live in overcrowded conditions. <br /> <br />Proposed Project <br />The proposed Northgate Gonzalez Real Estate fails to help address the housing needs for lower <br />income families that live in the surrounding Lacy neighborhood community, one of the <br />neighborhoods with a high population of lower income families. This development needs to <br />provide affordable housing to help address existing housing needs and mitigate the gentrification <br />and displacement that its project will create. The Northgate Gonzalez Real Estate team cannot <br />claim that this development will serve the Santa Ana residents without including housing that <br />will be affordable to families with extremely-low and very-low incomes. <br /> <br />The Commission is in strong opposition to this project as proposed and we urge you to <br />reject this project until on-site affordable housing is included. The proposed project needs to <br />articulate how the developer and its partners will help address the critical affordable housing <br />needs of residents in the Lacy neighborhood and in the City of Santa Ana. <br /> <br />If you have any questions, please free to contact me at (949) 250-0909 or <br />cesarc@kennedycommission.org. <br /> <br /> <br />Sincerely, <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Cesar Covarrubias <br />Executive Director <br /> <br />1 <br /> City of Santa Ana General Plan Housing Element 2014-2021, p. 14, January 2014. <br />2 <br /> City of Santa Ana Housing Element Progress Report 2019, April 2020 <br />3 <br /> Rent survey of recent market rate developments - The Marke, Essex Skyline and Broadstone Arden <br />4 <br /> City of Santa Ana General Plan Housing Element 2014-2021, p. 12 and 14, January 2014. <br />5 <br /> City of Santa Ana General Plan Housing Element 2014 2021, p. 11, January 2014. <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br />Working for systemic change resulting in the production of homes affordable to xtremely low-income households <br />