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SENIOR MOBILE HOMES PARK RESIDENTS PETITION October 1, 2021 Honorable Mayor Vicente Sarmlento Council Member Thai Viet Phan (Ward 1) Council Member David Penaloza (Ward 2) Council Member Jessie Lopez (Ward 3) Council Member Phil Bacerra (Ward 4) Council Member Jonathan Ryan Hernandez (Ward 5) Council Member Nelida Mendoza (Ward 6) We, the undersigned, all current residents of Bali Hi Mobile Home Park for Low Income Seniors in Santa Ana, CA, hereby express our deepest gratitude, and most sincere appreciation for the city's bold emergency rescue measure in the form of Its first Rent Stabilization and Tenant Eviction Protection ordinance. Especially for vulnerable constituents like us, (1) securing access to affordable housing, (2) struggling to make ends meet month in and month out, (3) crying out everywhere for help, and (4) barely managing to survive on the brink of overlapping looming calamities have posed critical, even life -threatening challenges for senior residents of Santa Ana living on fixed income and limited financial resources for years. Many of our neighbors have succumbed to early deaths or have become severely ill from the unbearable toll of worrying about all sorts of housing insecurity and associated dangers. We are simply living precariously on the brink of physical, mental, and emotional breaking points that any single triggering event could render us totally incapacitated, isolated, and effectively homeless. No matter how much our elderly and vulnerable neighbors stretch ourselves every month to pay our space rental and try to stay current, the annual rent increases are simply impossible to keep up with, as we all become the first segment of Santa Ana's fragile population of residents to become systematically "priced out" of our immovable mobile homes into unimaginable miserable outcomes, and eventual homelessness. This is no way to live with dignity, and certainly no way to die and rest in peace. You may already know that the rent caps promulgated In CA state law (Assembly Bill — 2482) do not sufficiently address the economics of space rentals in mobile home parks, especially for low-income senior mobile homes owners. Your ordinance will rescue us immediately, while helping stakeholders begin the process of healing/recovery that all of us desperately need, in order to help our beloved city thrive and prosper, while keeping precious disposable income in the pockets of our own local residents. This action shows that the city has finally heard the crescendo of cries for HELP, and has come to our rescue, in the most determined way possible. Thank you very much for having the political will and humane resolve to stand in the gap to rescue the poor, the sickly, and the most vulnerable of Santa Anans FIRST, along with the 559v. of our resident population who are renters, financially overwhelmed with unreasonable rent increases. You are doing the right thing, the right way, for all the right reasons Respectfully submitted, Page 1 of a