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DOWDALL LAW OFFICES A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION ATTORNEYS AT LAW City of Santa Ana August 28, 2023 Page 13 substantial finder's fees or other payments to current consumers to obtain a rental unit.23 Some communities have developed a housing "gray -market," where units are passed among friends or family members.24 These barriers to entry disproportionately affect low-income and young people.2s Rent Control Is Not an Equitable Solution to the Housing Affordability Problem. Contrary to its proponents' intentions, rent control frequently benefits the wealthy while doing little to help the poor. The RSL is particularly egregious example of a poorly structured rent control law. The RSL haphazardly applies to a large number of buildings and does not target relief to low-income populations. There is no means testing, financial qualification, or other requirement that rent -stabilized apartments be rented to low-income families. Compl. 86. And, because the RSL effectively requires owners to perpetually renew leases, landlords have an incentive to choose tenants with higher incomes and better credit. Id. On the other side, examples abound of wealthy New Yorkers who have no need for housing subsidies living in rent -stabilized apartments. For example, one report stated that a polo -playing multimillionaire whose family owned a 300-acre estate in North Salem, New York lived in a rent -stabilized apartment for several years. A former executive with a weekend home in the Berkshires lived in a rent -stabilized apartment for nearly 20 years. A former magazine editor and her husband who owned a photo agency lived in a rent -stabilized unit in the Upper West Side for 27 years while also owning a cottage on a 7-acre property in upstate New York. The Recitals in the Ordinance Are Fatally Flawed For the foregoing reasons, and as elsewhere specified herein, the recitals set forth that: "ORDINANCE NO. NS-XXXX AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AMENDING ARTICLE XIX OF CHAPTER 8 OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO THE RENT STABILIZATION AND JUST CAUSE EVICTION ORDINANCES" are demonstrably untrue and therefore fail to provide a rational justification for the politically expedient rampage of compulsory government interdiction into residential rental pricing of mobile home spaces unjustified by any rational purpose, and based upon false, misleading, and groundless assertion of manufactured rationale that is woefully 23 Id. 24 d. 25 Id -13-