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Orozco, Norma <br />From:MJ Baretich <mjbaretich@hotmail.com> <br />Sent:Monday, October 18, 2021 6:31 PM <br />To:eComment <br />Subject:AGENDA ITEM 7 <br />Mayor and Council Members <br />My name is Mary Jo Baretich. I am the Zone C Vice President and former State President for the <br />Golden State Manufactured-home Owners League. <br />I am submitting this appeal for your YES vote on Item 7 Adoption of Rent Stabilization <br />Ordinance and Just Cause Eviction Ordinance <br />Your extensive work on these items is commendable. Thank you for having your Staff create the <br />documents necessary to start the process. These homeowners need your support. <br />They are pleading and fighting for their lives <br />It is shocking that through no fault of their own, seniors, veterans, disabled and other low-income mobilehome <br />homeowners in the City of Santa Ana are being threatened with economical eviction, causing the loss of their <br />homes and everything they have saved and paid for all their lives. They need your protection. These are <br />people who have either spent their life-savings on a home or have mortgages on their home and are now <br />facing extreme threats of rent increases for the piece of dirt that their mobilehome sits upon in the <br />mobilehome parks. <br />Many seniors have no family and are facing the horrible prospect of being homeless and living among the <br />habitual druggies and others who prey upon these elderly citizens who are in their 70’s, 80’s and <br />90’s. Something had to be done! And you are addressing it tonight. <br />As stated in the proposal, the City has 29 Mobilehome Parks containing 3,913 spaces. Six of the Mobilehome <br />Parks and one thousand twenty spaces in Santa Ana are currently age-restricted to persons 55 years of age or <br />older. <br /> <br />Please search your hearts and get these Ordinances in place. <br />Santa Ana’s mobilehome rent structure has risen beyond affordability in many parks. Mobilehomes <br />are the only unsubsidized form of affordable housing in the state. Please protect these people and <br />their only assets. <br />We are asking for your compassion and fairness in this matter. Please vote YES to approve the Rent <br />Stabilization Ordinance and Just Cause Eviction Ordinance <br />Thank you, <br /> <br />Mary Jo Baretich <br />Zone C Vice President for the Golden State Manufactured-home Owners League (GSMOL) <br />(714) 465-0932 <br />mjbaretich@hotmail.com <br /> <br />3 <br /> <br />