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Hello Santa Ana City Council Members, My name is Indigo Vu and I am a resident of Ward 1. 1 am also a staff member of VietRISE, a community non-profit organization that organizes Vietnamese residents in Orange County. We have been working with senior residents from the Bali Hi Mobile Home Lodge and are writing collectively in support of agenda item #9, the ordinance to prohibit residential property and mobile home space rental rate increases that exceed 3% annual, or 80% of the change in consumer price index, whichever is less, within the city. These comments below are in support of agenda item #9. These comments are from senior residents from Bali Hi Mobile Home Lodge. 11 From Dao Tran. 71 years old: Dear Mayor Sarmiento and City Council Members, My name is Dao Tran. I am 71 years old. I live in senior Bali Hi Mobile Homes with my husband, Tuat Mai. He is 74 years old. My husband and I came to Bali Hi over 14 years ago because we wanted to enjoy our retirement in peace and quiet. For many years, we loved living here. But since J&H came in 2016, living in Bali Hi has become awful. J&H has raised our rent by high rates that we cannot afford. The rent of people in Bali Hi has increased from 7% to 30%. The families at Bali Hi Mobile Homes need your help. Without your support for rent control, many of us will not be able to keep living in Bali Hi. As you know, many of us are immigrants and refugees. We are low-income. We have been in America for many decades, working hard and raising our families. For many of us, Bali Hi is where we finally get to enjoy our retirement in peace. Without rent control measures that guarantee our rent will be raised 3% maximum per year, many of us will have to leave the neighborhood. Many of us will have trouble paying our bills. Many of us will become homeless. Please do not take our homes from us. Please make sure that you support the rent control measures, so that we can continue to live in peace.