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Community Development Agency <br />www.santa-ana.org/cd <br />Item # 33 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br /> Staff Report <br />September 21, 2021 <br />TOPIC: Rent Stabilization Ordinance and Just Cause Eviction Ordinance <br />AGENDA TITLE: <br />Adoption of Rent Stabilization Ordinance and Just Cause Eviction Ordinance <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Receive direction from the Housing Ad Hoc Committee and consider the following <br />options: <br />1. Adopt an urgency rent stabilization ordinance prohibiting residential real property and <br />mobilehome space rental increases that exceed three percent (3%) annually, or eighty <br />percent (80%) of the change in Consumer Price Index, whichever is less, within the <br />City. (Requires five affirmative votes) <br />2. Adopt an urgency ordinance requiring just cause evictions. (Requires five affirmative <br />votes) <br />3. Adopt a Resolution directing further study and implementation of the additional <br />regulatory framework and infrastructure necessary to implement residential rent <br />stabilization, just cause eviction, and other protections for tenants facing housing <br />instability. <br />4. Authorize the City Manager to reallocate up to $300,000 from the Revive Santa Ana <br />Plan to create an Eviction Defense Fund by entering into an Agreement with a <br />consultant for the administration, management and implementation of the rent <br />stabilization ordinance and just cause eviction ordinance, and direct the City Attorney <br />to finalize and authorize the City Manager to enter into negotiations, execute <br />agreements, and approve any other required actions necessary with various service <br />providers, contractors, and sub-recipients, who will implement and manage the <br />ordinances, subject to non-substantive changes approved by the City Manager and <br />City Attorney.