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Orozco, Norma From: Qui Vuong <qui.vuong.balihi@gmaiLcom> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2021 5:56 PM To: eComment Subject: PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEM 9 Honorable Mayor and City Council Members For too long, politics as usual has been about accepting political donations while ignoring and pretending that housing injustice and unfair business practices do not exist in Santa Ana. All the chickens have come home to roost under your watch. RENT STABILIZATION will help the city avoid unintentional outcomes of their own making, for ignoring to address the issues sooner. What is it about 2+2 cannot be more than 4 do you not understand? As this situation is allowed to worsen while we wait for impact studies, there comes a point of no return, and hell to pay for those left holding the bag. JUST DO IT! DO it now, there is no more time to waste. The voting electorate of the city of Santa Ana are no longer being apathetic or being kept unaware. These voters care deeply about the city they live and grow up in, and its aspirations for a vibrant and prosperous future by caring for its own people first and prioritizing profitability last. The entire city council voting record is now under scrutiny. We all have our eyes on you, in order to keep you honest, serious. and true to your campaign promises to protect and serve the community of Santa Ana, and not those outside interests who do not have skin in the game to save the city. When these outside investors offer you thousand dollar bribes here and there in the form of political donations in order for you to allow them to justify housing gouging activities to overwhelm and undermine local resident families who are suffering renters. When you accept these donations, and hide behind excuses and processes in order to delay, procrastinate, defeat and ignore the most vulnerable members of your own community, you are effectively betraying Santa Ana, and doing the city a disservice as an elected official. Your vote today will illustrate your commitment and determination to do the right thing, the right way, for all the right reasons to uplift humanity, decency, and caring citizenship, instead of tearing down fragile safety nets through irresponsible actions that are guaranteed to produce outcomes everyone in the city is trying to avoid: poverty, misery, bankruptcy, induced illnesses and involuntary homelessness. So please, cast your vote wisely, or the only environmental impact study you will have left to evaluate is how you will be voted out of office in shame for choosing to serve the financial interests of a few wealthy and greedy outsiders and their lobbying arms, at the expense of so many local residents who put you in office in the first place. As an URGENT emergency rescue measure, I strongly encourage every member of this city council to vote YES on Rent Stabilization, say NO to any preventable Housing Gouging, and leave the irrelevant argument on both sides of the RENT CONTROL excuse to die its natural death. Yours truly, Qui Vuong