Item 33 - Rent Stabilization Ordinance and Just Cause Eviction Ordinance

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Ordinance No. NS - ____ Page 3 of 22 N. The City Council finds and determines that regulating the relations between residential landlords and tenants will increase certainty and fairness within the residential rental market in the City and thereby serve the public peace, health, and safety. O. Pursuant to the City’s police power, as granted broadly under Article XI, section 7 of the California Constitution, and Santa Ana Charter section 200, the Santa Ana City Council has the authority to enact and enforce ordinances and regulations for the public peace, health, and welfare of the City and its residents. P. Pursuant to Santa Ana City Charter sections 415 and 417, this Ordinance is declared by the City Council to be necessary as an emergency measure to protect and preserve the health, safety and welfare of the residents of the City of Santa Ana and will become effective immediately if passed by the affirmative votes of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the members of the City Council. The City Council hereby finds that there is an urgent need to adopt these regulations in order to address the current and immediate threats set forth below. 1. Housing, particularly affordable housing, is difficult to procure in this region, including in Santa Ana. Evictions without just cause destabilize the housing market and can result in the loss of affordable housing; 2. For the immediate preservation of the public peace, health , and safety, the City Council finds that it is necessary to adopt an ordinance regulating just cause evictions, for all of the reasons set forth in the recitals above, which are hereby incorporated by reference; 3. Without the imposition of this Urgency Ordinance, evictions without just cause may result in the displacement of residential tenants who would be forced to find new housing in an ever-more expensive housing market before a non- urgency ordinance would become effective, and would significantly increase the risk of residential tenants becoming homeless; and, 4. There is a current and immediate threat to the public peace, health, and safety of the City and its community due in part to the pending expiration of the state COVID-19 emergency residential eviction moratorium on September 30, 2021, which increases the risk of evictions without just cause, thereby necessitating the immediate enactment of this Urgency Ordinance in order to ensure that tenants are not turned out of their homes without just cause. Q. 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. EXHIBIT 3