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are known to weaken the immune system. Many of these chronic conditions have been defined as comorbidities during the COVID-19 pandemic, making people more susceptible to contracting the virus'. (g) People who contract the COVID-19 virus and face high healthcare costs that may put them at risk of future evictions'. In this way, evictions perpetuate cycles of economic and housing instability', making it a threat to public health prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Evictions and displacement have imposed life threatening consequences on people, which have only intensified during this current COVID-19 pandemic. A recent study conducted by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, highlighted the dire consequences that people can face after being evicted. This study noted the association between evictions and COVID-19 incidence and mortality. Specifically, the UCLA study found a 5.4 times increase in COVID-19 mortality rates within states that lifted their eviction moratoriums compared to states that did not between March and September of 2020'. (h) Accordingly, tenants should not have to worry constantly about losing their home for no reason. Common-sense protections against unfair evictions are needed in the City of Santa Ana to protect long-time and low-income residents from landlords who try to game the system to take advantage of all-time high rents. (i) The City of Santa Ana is the second (2nd) largest of the 34 cities in Orange County. In 2019, the City of Santa Ana's estimated population of 332,794 represented approximately 10 percent of Orange County's total population, ranking the City of Santa Ana as the second most populated city in Orange County behind Anaheim. According to the American Community Survey (2019), the City of Santa Ana has approximately 79,024 housing units. Multi -family housing comprises 40.4 percent of all housing, of which 10 percent are duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes. 0) The People of the City of Santa Ana recognize the value of homeownership, and specifically the value of local ownership of rental housing. As such, the Ordinance seeks to balance tenant protections with the rights and interests of residents in the City of Santa Ana who own their homes. 'Eviction, Health Inequity, and the Spread of COVID-19: Housing Policy as a Primary Pandemic Mitigation Strategy httos://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.aov/nmc/articles/PMC7790520 (accessed May 11, 2021) ' Can Medicaid Expansion Prevent Housing Evictions? Stps://nubmed.ncbi.nlm-nih oovd31479379/ (accessed May 13, 2021) ' Desmond, Matthew, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, 2016 httns://books, aooele.com/books?hl=en&Ir—&id=-OYZCQAAOBAJ&oi=fnd&no—PA 158&ots=lbJ4AijImA&si e—ha 89Rg8YvVWkI JPAqkn FHFOPBF#v—onel2ageeq -L--fals ' Leifheit, et al., Expiring Eviction Moratoriums and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality, 2020 httPS7//12apers.ssm.com/`sQ]3/papers.cfm9abstract id= 739 76 5