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in the district. In the last year, the Santa Ana Unified School District had over 5,717 students participate in the McKinney-Vento program, which provides assistance to children and youth experiencing houselessness. At the same time, rent stabilization would benefit not only tenants who live in covered units, but all who live in Santa Ana. This is because with predatory rent hikes, the cost of living in the city increases faster than residents' income. Furthermore, any resident displacement allows for displacement of families who have called Santa Ana home for many years, fragmenting the culture of the City. The ordinance also protects residents of Santa Ana where AB1482 falls short. For example, the ordinance would extend rent stabilization to the 23 mobile home parks in Santa Ana, currently exempt from AB1482 protections. Santa Ana residents who live in mobile homes are largely Vietnamese and Latinx immigrants as well as lower -income, senior citizens, who are on a fixed -income. Mobile home residents also comprise multi -generational families and long-term residents of Santa Ana who will be able to remain in Santa Ana as a result of passing the ordinance. The Mobilehome Parks in the City of Santa Ana are currently experiencing drastic increases in rent. For example, there are 34 spaces at Bali Hi Mobilehome Lodge (Bali Hi), an age restricted 55+ park, where Mobilehome Owners and Residents experienced a 15.5 percent to 34.5 percent increase in the monthly rent effective June 1, 2019. This spike in rent is an increase in excess of $200 per month for some Mobilehome Owners and Residents. Another 105 spaces received a rent increase of up to 12 percent, posing a significant impact for low-income residents on a fixed income. A representative of the Bali Hi park owner stated the owners were very unlikely to halt any further rent increases and if the residents couldn't afford the rent increases, they could leave. The ordinance provides rent stabilization for mobile home owners renting space in the park, as well as just cause eviction protections for tenants living in rented mobile homes. More than 100 local jurisdictions have enacted mobile home rent control ordinances in California in an effort to preserve an important source of affordable housing. Also, the ordinance would add protections for all mobile home residents if the park were to be redeveloped. AB1482 likewise fails to incorporate language accessibility. Santa Ana is a city of immigrants -- the ordinance rightly requires landlords to provide important communication such as contracts and official notices in the language of the tenant. AB1482 also lacks an accessible process for enforcement. The ordinance would create a rent board which would help enforce the ordinance. Residents would be able to voice their concerns, which is good for both tenants and landlords. The rent board can rely on the city attorney to provide legal support to address landlord and tenant disputes whereas the process of taking someone to court for an AB1482 violation is costly and inaccessible. The ordinance would also create a rental registry which would be a database of all the rental properties in the city. We currently do not have a full registry of all the landlords in the city. This data would help the city communicate about programs specific to landlords and tenants. With a rental registry, the city could have reached out to all the landlords when the CARES funds were created, which would have helped them disperse the funds. Additionally, having a rental registry would help improve tenant and landlord communications because tenants often struggle to send important documents to their landlords via mail as they do not have their mailing address. Often in a tenant court case, it is recommended tenants send documents by certified mail to help prove that communication occurred. Not having the address of a landlord can be a defining aspect 464 Lucas Ave #202 • Los Angeles, CA 90017 • 213-481-3740 • w .cluejuslice.org • Printed in-house