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impacts on mental and physical health, as well as school and social hardships for the children and their families.24 (v) Additionally, homelessness in Orange County is rising at a rapid pace. The most recent Point -In -Time Count & Survey, a federally mandated snapshot, conducted in July 2019, showed that there are approximately 6,860 homeless persons in the county. This is an increase of over 2,000 homeless persons over the past two years. Santa Ana is the city with the largest population of homeless individuals in Orange County at 1,769 persons. This makes up more than 25% of Orange County's homeless population. Approximately 700 people previously resided at the Santa Ana Riverbed, until Orange County Sheriffs evicted hundreds of these homeless individuals in early 2018. (w) According to findings published in 2018 by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, "[flaws that stabilize rents and prevent unjust evictions ... directly address the underlying causes of housing instability and homelessness."" The People of the City of Santa Ana seek to promote the development of affordable housing, and to provide robust and effective services to residents experiencing chronic homelessness. The People of the City of Santa Ana further recognize that policies designed to prevent individuals and families from losing their housing by stabilizing housing costs and prohibiting unjust evictions are critical tools for addressing homelessness in the City of Santa Ana. (x) The California Legislature has found that some landlords report (or threaten to report) their tenants' immigration status in order to harass or intimidate those tenants 26 Other landlords carry out such reports or threats as a way of retaliating against tenants who have reported habitability issues, or who have exercised other tenant rights. Reports and threats based on immigration status are also used to pressure tenants into leaving their homes, a problem that is particularly salient in rapidly gentrifying cities such as Santa Ana, where some landlords might be motivated to illicitly push out lower- and moderate -income tenants in favor of more lucrative projects. Tenants United Santa Ana has received notice of such reports and threats being made by landlords against tenants in Santa Ana. Arrest by ICE can lead to detention and deportation, ripping families and communities apart. For more than a century, the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized deportation as a deprivation of liberty that "may result ... in loss of both property and life, or of all that makes life worth living." Ng Fung Ho v White, 259 U.S. 276 (1922). 24 See Eviction's Fallout: Housing, Hardship, and Health, (Feb. 2015), Social Forces, available at hU://nlihc.or2/sites/default/files/DesmondKimbro Evictions Fallout SF2015 pdf, hhUiZ/www.ed-data.org/district/Orange/Santa-Ana-Unified & htt2s://www.sansd.ns/Page/5 (last accessed November 26, 2019) 2' National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, Protect Tenants, Prevent Homelessness, March 2018), available athtti)s://www.nlchp.org/ProtectTenants2O] (last accessed November 26, 2019). 26 See also Immigrant Tenant Protection Act of 2017 (AB 291) Fact Sheet, Office of Assemblymember David Chin, available at httn://nonorofithousina ore/wncontent/unloads/AB-291-Immigrant-Tenant Protection Fact Sheet ndf (last accessed November 25, 2019). `! 7