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does just that—it stabilizes residents, their families, and the communities in which they live. <br />Homeowners have “mortgage control” in the form of 1978’s Proposition 13, which prohibits the <br />government from increasing property taxes more than 1% of a property’s market value at the <br />time of acquisition per year and limited the growth of a home’s taxable value to 2% a year.6 <br />Renters make up approximately 55% of Santa Ana residents,7 many of whom have lived in the same <br />unit for decades, and they deserve the same stability as homeowners. Most recently, a group of 32 <br />economist signed a joint letter to the Federal Housing Finance Agency in support of rent stabilization.8 <br />The JCEO is one other tool in the City’s toolbox that addresses the housing crisis and helps to alleviate <br />one of the causes of homelessness. The JCEO helps to ensure that tenants who timely pay their rents <br />and who comply with provisions of their rental agreement are not unfair evicted. In particular, the <br />JCEO provides that tenants who are evicted for no-fault just cause receive some assistance relocating. <br />Exhibit A to this Council Requested Item Memorandum is an Ordinance Amending the City of <br />Santa Ana Rent Stabilization and Just Cause Eviction Ordinance. It would require a supermajority <br />of the total number of Councilmembers (five out of seven) to adopt an amendment to the RSO <br />and JCEO relating to: <br />1. The RSO’s repeal; <br />2. The JCEO’s repeal; <br />3. Increasing the maximum allowable annual rent increase above 3% per year or 100% of <br />the Consumer Price Index (as defined in the RSO) or whichever is lower; <br />4. Dissolution of the Rental Registry and/or the Rental Registry fee; <br />5. Dissolution of the Rental Board; <br />6. Removal or amendment of circumstances established as no-fault just cause for purposes <br />of eviction; and/or <br />7. Changes to the RSO which may have the same or substantially similar results as items 1- <br />6 listed above. <br />The amendments to the RSO and JCEO as evidenced in the attached Exhibit A are crucial for ensuring <br />the continuity and longevity of these protections. <br />Submitted By <br />•Councilmember Thai Viet Phan <br />Attachment <br />•Exhibit A - An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Santa Ana Amending Article XIX <br />of Chapter 8 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code Pertaining to the Rent Stabilization and Just <br />Cause Eviction Ordinances <br />6 Matt Levin, “What is Prop 13?”accessed August 17, 2023, https://projects.scpr.org/prop-13/history/. <br />7 See United States Census Bureau, QuickFacts, accessed August 17, 2023, <br />https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/santaanacitycalifornia/HSG445221#HSG445221. <br />8 Letter re Tenant Protections for Enterprise-Backed Multifamily Properties Request for Input (July 28, 2023), <br />https://peoplesaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Economist-Sign-on-Letter_-FHFA-RFI-Response-1.pdf.