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DOWDALL LAW OFFICES A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION ATTORNEYS AT LAW City of Santa Ana August 28, 2023 Page 5 anti -Democratic frolic of a city Council. Why are the voters paying costs assessed against the city of Santa Ana as a proximate result of Santa Ana's malevolent efforts to squelch the taxpayers constitutional right to vote? The Proposal Violates Due Process Of Law: The proposal is bereft of a rational basis. There are no findings to justify eliminating democratic principles guaranteed in the charter. According to the agenda packet, Since its adoption, rent stabilization ordinances have been contemplated and adopted throughout the United States. Most recently, the White House lauded Santa Ana's Rental Registry as a model for supporting renters who are increasingly facing evictions, homelessness, and displacement due to skyrocketing rents.5 Objection is made to each and every recital set forth in the proposed ordinance. The foregoing is, in fact, a false statement in respect to mobilehome parks located in the city of Santa Ana, and generally for the socioeconomic condition of mobile home tenants throughout the state of California. It is especially untrue with regard to residents who have selected the stability of long-term leases which provide life estate protections and rights of inheritance that continue into perpetuity and for so long as a mobilehome park remains in operation and existence. This has been empirically demonstrated in peer -reviewed scientific data which shows that the political pronouncements of the White House are groundless. As such, reliance upon this information as a basis for passage of the ordinance is misplaced and fails to provide a rational justification for action in this instance. In response to the fabricated recitals tenderness factual underpinnings for the proposed ordinance, I submit that according to the Brookings Institution', steadily rising housing rents in many large, productive U.S. Cities have reignited the discussion whether to expand or enact rent control provisions, certainly. 5 Citing, The White House, "White House Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Takes Action to Protect Renters," accessed July 27, 2023, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/ statements-releases/2023/07/27/fact-sheetbiden-harris-administration-takes-action-to-pro tectrenters/#: -: text=Santa%20Ana's%20new%20rental%20registry, and%20supports%20to%20q ualified%20households. ' https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-does-economic -evidence-tell-us-about-the- effects-of-rent-control/ (Rebecca Diamond, Associate Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business). -5-