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This means that the City has exceeded its above moderate income RHNA allocation by 2,677 percent, per the City's RHNA Annual Progress Report submitted to the CA Department of Housing and Community Development. With above moderate average rents of $2000 — $4000 in these developments, none of these above market rent units are affordable to most of Santa Ana's working families. Since 80% of renters in Santa Ana fall into the moderate, low and very low income category and 84 percent of residents hold low-income occupations that pay less than $53,500 peryear, the majority of these new rental housing units are not available to address the housing needs of most working families in Santa Ana. Santa Ana's households are predominantly families comprising 81%of households. These households are also rent burdened and live in overcrowded conditions. Proposed Project The proposed Northgate Gonzalez Real Estate project fails to help address the housing needs for lower income families that live in the surrounding Lacy neighborhood community, one of the neighborhoods with a high population of lower income families. This development needs to provide affordable housing to help address existing housing needs and mitigate the gentrification and displacement that its project will create. The Northgate Gonzalez Real Estate team cannot claim that this development will serve the Santa Ana residents without including housing that will be affordable to families with extremely -low and very -low incomes. Latino Health Access is in strong opposition to this project as proposed and we urge you to reject this project until on -site affordable housing is included. The proposed project needs to articulate how the developer and its partners will help address the critical affordable housing needs of residents in the Lacy neighborhood and in the City of Santa Ana. Sincerely, Nancy Mejia, MPH, MSW Chief Program Officer PREVENTION EDUCATION ACTION