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requirements make it very difficult for landlords to get dangerous, bad actors out of their properties and require neighbors to testify in court against their neighbor. More stringent, local "just cause" protections are unnecessary. Rent Control is harmful to tenants and property owners. Living in a manufactured housing community is unique. There are two payments or purchases made when a resident buys a mobilehome in a mobilehome park. They buy their home and they agree to pay a monthly lot rent to the parkowner. When you add a rent control scheme to this system, it erodes the affordability of mobilehome community living. When lot rents are artificially capped with rent control, the price of the home skyrockets —removing the affordability of the home. The adoption of a rent control ordinance is the cause for this phenomenon. It actually becomes more expensive to live in our communities with rent control. This will diminish Santa Ana's affordable housing stock. The staff report suggests that landlords will bear the costs of the rent control ordinance. This isn't accurate. On this point, case law provides landlords with protections of due process. Landlords can not be required to pay the costs associated with bringing a successful petition for a fair rate of return or an MNOI increase to the city for consideration. Suggesting otherwise may discourage a landlord from applying and place the city in legal jeopardy. Staff is mute on an important aspect of mobilehome rent control —Vega adjustments. Vega adjustments are permitted in the early stages of the onset of a rent control ordinance to determine if rents are at market before a rent control regulation is put in place. Many mobilehome park owners intentionally leave below market rents as is to benefit their renter. However, with passage of this proposal, they will have no choice but to require hearings to bring those spaces to market immediately. This alone could mean shocking increases to residents. Process is broken, lacks transparency with no outreach to rental housing providers. It is stunning to learn in three days, a city council is going to consider a harmful, wide - sweeping ordinance that will negatively impact their entire housing stock with no study session, no outreach to learn of impacts or to receive input from all stakeholders. It seems other housing policy decisions, such as the HOO, are receiving more study and consideration from stakeholders. Why would rental housing providers not be provided the same access for input? With the existence of Exhibit 5, staff acknowledges the lack of research, fiscal analysis, and due diligence still needed will take a year to collect. Why is the city council considering passage of legislation with so many unanswered questions? Past city councils took the time to study the issue and to hear from experts on both sides. After deliberation and input, they rejected a rent control. Rental Assistance Funds have gone unused with no discussion about existing statewide tenant protections. Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association Z Sacramento Office: 455 Capitol Mall Suite 800, Sacramento, CA 95814 1 (916) 448-7002 Regional Office: 40335 Winchester Rd. #E165, Temecula, CA 92596 1 (951) 704-2427 1 julie@pauleconsulting.com