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Orozco, Norma <br />From: <br />Sent: <br />To: <br />Subject: <br />Dear Mayor and City Council, <br />Maria Ceja <ceja.maria95@gmaiI.com> <br />Tuesday, October 19, 2021 2:00 PM <br />eComment <br />NON AGENDA ITEM: In Support of Temporary Rent Freeze <br />Thank you for your efforts towards protecting and preserving our community by proposing policies like rent <br />control and just cause. Today is the second reading for the proposed rent control and just cause ordinances, <br />meaning there will be 30 days before these laws become locally effective. <br />There have already been retaliatory actions on behalf of landlords, mobile home park owners, and their <br />associations (California Apartment Association (CAA) and the Manufactured Home Educational Trust <br />(MEET). We can only expect them to negatively react like they have demonstrated and other cities and <br />statewide when the people push for renter protections that protect the most vulnerable, just like the ordinances <br />being proposed. One of these negative reactions that can hinder the stability (if any) of renter households <br />includes predatory, retaliatory rent increases as we wait for the laws to become effective. We must act <br />accordingly as we expect these harsh actions, which is why I am stressing that you enact a temporary rent <br />increase freeze between now and the date rent control officially becomes effective. <br />A rent control increase can prevent hostile rent increases and allows us to hold landlords/property owners (who <br />carry out a rent increase during this time period) accountable. Please support a rent increase to protect those <br />most vulnerable (i.e., seniors, undocumented tenants, single parent tenant households, children, persons who are <br />formerly incarcerated, etc.). Thank you. <br />Sincerely, <br />Maria Ceja <br />