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Orozco, Norma <br />From: <br />MJ Baretich <mjbaretich@hotmail.com> <br />Sent: <br />Tuesday, October 05, 2021 11:58 AM <br />To: <br />eComment <br />Subject: <br />ITEM 9 Rent Stabilization Ordinance and Just Cause Eviction Ordinancl <br />Dear Mayor and Council Members <br />My name is Mary Jo Baretich. I am the Zone C Vice President and former State President for the Golden State <br />Manufactured -home Owners League. <br />I am writing on behalf of all the mobilehome homeowners in Santa Ana to thank you for your welcome first <br />vote on the Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO) and Just Cause Eviction Ordinance. <br />We are asking you once more for your vote for a final passage of the Rent Stabilization Ordinance and Just <br />Cause Eviction Ordinance. The people have tried for many years to get a RSO passed. <br />Your extensive work on these items is commendable. Thank you for having your Staff create the documents <br />necessary to start the process. These homeowners need your support. <br />They are pleading and fighting for their lives. <br />It is shocking that through no fault of their own, seniors, veterans, disabled and other low-income mobilehome <br />homeowners in the City of Santa Ana are being threatened with economical eviction, causing the loss of their <br />homes and everything they have saved and paid for all their lives. They need your protection. These are people <br />who have either spent their life -savings on a home or have mortgages on their home and are now facing extreme <br />threats of rent increases for the piece of dirt that their mobilehome sits upon in the mobilehome parks. <br />Many seniors have no family and are facing the horrible prospect of being homeless and living among the <br />habitual druggies and others who prey upon these elderly citizens who are in their 70's, 80's and <br />90's. Something had to be done! And you are addressing it tonight. <br />Please search your hearts and get these Ordinances in place. <br />Santa Ana's mobilehome rent structure has risen beyond affordability in many parks. Mobilehomes are the <br />only unsubsidized form of affordable housing in the state. Please protect these people and their only assets. <br />We are asking for your compassion and fairness in this matter. Please vote to approve the Rent Stabilization <br />Ordinance and Just Cause Eviction Ordinance <br />Thank you, <br />Mary Jo Baretich <br />GSMOL Zone Vice President <br />Past State GSMOL President <br />