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Araiza, Fatima <br />From: <br />Lopez, Jessie <br />Sent: <br />Friday, October 01, 2021 3:31 PM <br />To: <br />eComment <br />Subject: <br />FW: STRONGLY OPPOSE RENT CONTROL ORDINANCE <br />From: Danielle Holloway McCarthy <dmccarthy@amcliving.com> <br />Sent: Friday, October 1, 2021 11:03 AM <br />Subject: STRONGLY OPPOSE RENT CONTROL ORDINANCE <br />Dear Mayor Vicente Sarmiento & Members of the Santa Ana City Council, <br />I have worked as a rental housing provider in property management for more than 10 years. <br />Our organization, AMC, manages over 1,600 units in your beautiful city of Santa Ana. <br />I strongly oppose the rent control ordinance you are proposing for the city of Santa Ana as I <br />believe you are attempting to solve a problem which you are misguided to believe is larger <br />than it is. Your solution is in fact the opposite of a solution and will only exacerbate the issue. <br />It will decimate the Santa Ana economy and deter future investment into the community as <br />well as the much needed additional housing supply. <br />Why would a landlord be incentivized to invest in Santa Ana? Do you think your proposal will <br />promote quality living? Do you think your proposal will promote a cohesive community full of <br />supportive neighbors and law abiding citizens? Do you think it will create more parking, reduce <br />crime and allow for flourishing and vibrant neighborhoods? Do you think it will allow <br />employers to increase wages and benefits? Do you think it will promote landlords investing in <br />their properties, hiring contractors to maintain the community? Do you think it will motivate <br />staff (your Santa Ana city residents) to work hard, maintain a community and fight the <br />exhausting battles of property management? <br />The answer is that it will not. It will not promote your economy, it will not prevent people from <br />overcrowding apartment homes, it will not give the people of Santa Ana a better life. It will not <br />incentivize workers, investors, managers to care for property and land in the beautiful city of <br />Santa Ana. It will not promote the natural progressions of apartment living where residents <br />move to nicer buildings or bigger apartments when their families grow or life circumstances <br />change. Therefore, it will not help create more supply. <br />I believe you are blinded by the phrases "People Over Profits" because you feel you want to be <br />"on the right side of history." You want to "take care of the residents in your community" and <br />1 <br />