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is good for both tenants and landlords. The rent board can rely on the city attorney to provide <br />legal support to address landlord and tenant disputes whereas the process of taking someone to <br />court for an AB 1482 violation is costly and inaccessible. <br />Our ordinance would also create a rental registry which would be a database of all the rental <br />properties in the city. We currently do not have a full registry of all the landlords in the city. This <br />data would help the city communicate about programs specific to landlords and tenants. With a <br />rental registry, the city could have reached out to all the landlords when the CARES funds were <br />created, which would've helped them disperse funds. Additionally, having a rental registry <br />would help improve tenant and landlord communications because currently tenants struggle to <br />send important documents to their landlords via mail because of not having the landlords' <br />address. Often in a tenant court case, it is recommended tenants send documents by certified mail <br />to help prove that communication occurred. Not having the address of a landlord can be a <br />defining aspect of an eviction case. <br />If we don't act boldly now to protect renters, thousands will be displaced from our city or pushed <br />into even denser living arrangements. Because renters can't keep up with debt repayment <br />alongside unregulated rent hikes, they will be forced to leave the city or move in with family <br />members to weather difficult times together. Seniors who have used their life savings to pay off <br />the mortgages on their mobile homes, will be subject to losing everything when their fixed <br />incomes can no longer accommodate mounting rent increases on the land below their homes. At <br />this moment of compounding crises, you as our Councilmembers have a unique opportunity to <br />put policies in place that will aid COVID-19 recovery and protect us from future threats to our <br />health and livelihood. <br />As residents of Santa Ana, and as messengers of the tenants with whom we have worked, it is <br />our sincere desire that Santanerxs who have called Santa Ana their home for generations can <br />continue to remain for many generations to come. To ensure our collective future --we urge you <br />to enact rent control now! <br />Sincerely, <br />Tenants United Santa Ana <br />Public Law Center <br />CLUE (Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice) <br />Santa Ana Active Streets (SAAS) <br />Santa Ana Early Learning Initiative (SAELI) <br />VietRise <br />Thrive Santa Ana CLT <br />Unidos Homeschool Cooperative <br />Sullivan En Accion <br />Cooperacion Santa Ana <br />Vecindario Lacy En Accion <br />Chicanxs Unidxs <br />Alianza Translatinx <br />The People's Coalition <br />