Item 33 - Rent Stabilization Ordinance and Just Cause Eviction Ordinance

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community as a whole that the City consider regulations to protect affordab le housing within the City, including, but not limited to, rent stabilization regulations applicable to residential real property and mobilehomes. S. The Request for Council Action for this ordinance dated September 21, 2021, shall be incorporated herein by this reference, and together with this ordinance, any amendments or supplements, and oral testimony, shall constitute the necessary findings for this ordinance. T. The City Council finds, determines and declares that the current and immediate threat to the public health, safety and welfare of the City and its residents necessitates the immediate enactment of the ordinance. The facts constituting such urgency are set forth in this Section 1, paragraphs A-S, of this ordinance. Section 2. The recitals and statements of fact set forth in the preamble to this ordinance are true and correct, constitute a substantive part of this ordinance, and are incorporated herein by this reference. Section 3. Section 8-1998 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is deleted in its entirety. Section 4. Division 5 is hereby added to Article X (Property Maintenance) of Chapter 8 (Buildings and Structures) of the Santa Ana Municipal Code to read as follows: Division 5. – RENT STABILIZATION Section 8-1998.1 – Prohibited Increases. (a) Increases in rent on residential real property or mobilehome spaces in the City of Santa Ana in excess of three percent (3%), or eighty (80%) of the change in the Consumer Price Index, whichever is less, and more than one rent increase in any twelve (12) month period, are prohibited, unless expressly exempt under the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act codified in California Civil Code section 1954.50, et seq., or the Mobilehome Residency Law codified in California Civil Code sections 798, et seq. If the change in the Consumer Price Index is negative, no rent increase is permitted. The term Consumer Price Index means, at the time of the adjustment calculation completed by the City pursuant to subsection (b), the percentage increase in the United State Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim Metropolitan Area published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, not seasonally adjusted, for the most recent twelve (12) month period ending prior to the City’s calculation pursuant to subsection (b). A violation of this section occurs upon the service of notice or demand for a prohibited increase in rent. EXHIBIT 1