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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />August 31, 2021 <br /> <br />Mayor and City Council <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza <br />Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br /> <br />Honorable Mayor Sarmiento and Members of the City Council: <br /> <br />property owners, investors, <br />developers, managers and suppliers of rental homes, REALTORS®, and manufactured housing <br />communities, we respectfully request you carefully weigh the most prudent policy measures when <br />considering evolving housing needs, keeping housing accessible and affordable, and <br />maintaining livable neighborhoods. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: CURRENT STATEWIDE TENANT PROTECTIONS <br />Recent statewide elections have <br />measures and voters continue to reject more restrictive forms of rent control than currently allowed <br />-Hawkins Rental Housing Act of 1995. For <br />example, in 2018, Santa Ana voters opposed Proposition 10, the Local Rent Control Initiative, and <br />in 2020, residents disapproved of Proposition 21, which would have replaced the Costa-Hawkins <br />Rental Act. <br /> <br />In 2019, the California State Legislature passed, and the Governor signed into law the Tenant <br />Protection Act of 2019 (AB 1482), effective January 1, 2020, which remains in effect for ten years <br />and that creates a statewide rent cap and just cause eviction standards. Since the start of the <br />pandemic, the California State Legislature has dealt specifically with eviction moratoria to keep <br />residents housed. AB 1482 was temporarily suspended, and thus superseded, by the COVID-19 <br />sion and State Rental <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />