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Orozco, Norma From: Nathaniel Greensides <mynci90@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 1:17 PM To: rjulian@advancedrealestate.com; Hernandez, Johnathan; eComment Subject: Agenda Item 7 Attachments: 60day notice_Redacted_reducedSize.pdf, complaint served 6.26.21_Redacted.pdf, IMG_0732_Redacted_reducedSize.pdf, 545-F_RentlncreaseNotice.pdf I am a resident of Santa Ana living in Ward 5. I am in support of the item. I wish here solely to respond to some of Richard Julian's comments on an individual basis, not as a representative of TUSA. I hope this can help offer a better understanding of what tenants and residents in Santa Ana face as well as help to build some empathy. Sincerely, Nathaniel Greensides "Were they giving you accurate data? Were you able to verify this information with written documents?" Please see attached samples of documents with redacted information for privacy purposes. While none of the attached documents outline rent increases (save for the document of my recent rent increase), rent increases aren't the only issue the ordinances aim to resolve for residents. I will spare you photos of a single mother who was physically assaulted in her home by the property manager of 1327 N Bust St, who had been paying rent on time even during the pandemic, and who was self-help evicted and illegally locked out by the property manager. Some of the attached documents led ultimately to eviction cases in the courts. All cases of the attached documents led to long term residents being forced out of their homes. Additionally, one other recent case I worked with held that their rents are being increased at the max amount - albeit the property manager failed to serve proper notice of the rent increase - but the max legal amounts are still too high for residents. Even for those who can afford the increases, being unexpectedly gouged after years of reasonable increases would fail to do justice to tenant residents who make the city so desirable to live in the first place. One of the documents (not redacted) is from the place I just moved out of on Aug 31st. Only today am I finally getting back my rental deposit after a bunch of back and forth communication where the property manager asserted without any substance whatsoever that it's impossible to leave a unit in cleaner condition upon move out versus move in (I've never vacated a unit and left it in worse state upon move out than move in yet I've never gotten my full deposit back without having to fight for it after move out). The rent increase notice they sent to me which I received on July 28th gave me all of three days to decide if I was to renew the lease at the max allowable legal increase, serve notice and find some other place, or change to a month to month at an illegal amount. The unit was a 550 sq foot "Junior One Bedroom" at $1375 which I only snagged in the middle of the 2020 pandemic (Sep 2020). I have not seen similar units for rent at that price since. I was able to find a better unit and moved (definitely not at the price I was paying previously), but I know that many tenants who still live there (my former neighbors), paid much more in their deposits and rents and don't have the wherewithal to argue or assert their rights like I have. The returned deposit will go towards hospital bills I incurred recently. The management of the old place I lived will likely rent the unit at their proposed increased rent of $1645 (if they haven't already) with more people looking to move as we quickly approach the second anniversary of when the SARS-CoV-2 virus first flagged to the international community of doctors and health professionals (and eviction moratorium for covid related non payment of rent has expired).