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income households]$. Given the challenges in meeting the existing and projected housing needs of lower -income residents in the City of Santa Ana, the regulation of rents is a vital tool to maintain the affordability of a significant portion of the housing supply within a reasonable period. Further, according to an Urban Displacement study from the University of California Berkeley (2018), the income needed to afford an average two -bedroom apartment in Santa Ana is $72,52019. To rent, a minimum wage worker would need to work 25 hours per day to afford to rent in the City of Santa Ana. (t) The American Community Survey Reports states many low-income residents in the City of Santa Ana experience overcrowding, overpayment, or both20. Approximately thirty (30%) percent of residents in the City of Santa Ana live in overcrowded conditions, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development this means that there is more than one (1) person -per -room. Approximately seventeen percent (17.3%) of homeowners in Santa Ana live in overcrowded conditions, as compared to almost forty-one (40.7%) percent of renters in the City of Santa Ana. Approximately forty-six (46.3%) percent of residents in the City of Santa Ana overpay for their housing. The prevalence of housing overpayment in the City of Santa Ana is far greater among renters as 58.5 percent of residents overpay in housing costs, compared to 32 percent of homeowners in the City of Santa Ana. (u) In the academic year of 2019-2020, there were approximately 51,587 students in the Santa Ana Unified School District 2' Of this number, the Santa Ana Unified School District average reported enrollment numbers of 43,665 students. According to the district, 40,539 students-87%--come from low-income families. Additionally, 5,995 students, or 12.9%, identified as homeless.22 Moreover, 40,513 of the Santa Ana Unified School District's 51,587 students, or 79% were eligible for a free or reduced lunch.23 Evictions and displacement impose an especially high burden on school -aged children and their families, including increased absences from school and other educational disruption that can have long-lasting effects such as "City of Santa Ana, General Plan Housing Element Update (April 9, 2021) httns://www.santa-ana org/general-plan/horsing-element-ilnda e 0 1 (accessed May 13, 2021) 19 Preventing DIsplacement in 2018, bllw//wwwrrbandisnlaeem ntor /cites/defa� Ilt/fi�ges/senate hearing 022118 mzuk final12ddf(accessed May 13,2021) 21 City of Santa Ana General Plan Housing Element 2014-2021, p20 httvs://wwwsanta-ana.or sites/default/files/Documents/2014-202ISantaAnaHE HCDSubmittal Nov2013 Fiilluaoc umy ent ndf (accessed May 13, 2021) 21 See California Department of Education: District Profile: Santa Ana Unified, available at httns://www.cde.ca goyZSJprofiJeZdetails aspa9cd2=30666700000000 (last accessed on December 14, 2019). " Id. at Accountability Reports, California School Dashboard Report (Santa Ana Unified), available at httns //ww�w.cde agov/cdnrofile/details asp "9 s=40666700000000 (last accessed on December 14, 2019). 23 Id. at California Department of Education: District Profile: Santa Ana Unified, available at https://w,�de ca go_(v ,sdnrofile/details asnxycds=30666700000000 (last accessed on December 14, 2019).