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Community Development Agency <br />www.santa-ana.org/community- <br />development Item # 38 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />Staff Report <br />November 7, 2023 <br />TOPIC: Santa Ana Rental Registry Informational Report <br />AGENDA TITLE <br />Rental Registry Informational Report <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Accept informational report and provide direction to staff. <br />GOVERNMENT CODE §84308 APPLIES: No <br />DISCUSSION <br />Effective November 18, 2022, the City of Santa Ana adopted Ordinance No. NS-3027 <br />known as the Rent Stabilization and Just Cause Eviction Ordinance (Ordinance). Under <br />the Ordinance, the City must create a Rental Registry and all landlords with rental units <br />in the City of Santa Ana must complete and submit Registration Forms for each rental <br />unit. The Rental Registry is an online portal where landlords must register their rental <br />units, update rental unit information, update tenancy information, submit notices, and pay <br />the City's Rental Registry fee, if applicable. The City's Rental Registry allows the City to <br />securely compile key data on rent -stabilized units, track allowable rent increases, monitor <br />compliance with the City's Ordinance, and communicate rental unit data on a regular <br />basis to both landlords and tenants. <br />The City's Rental Registry gathers key data on rent -stabilized units through the <br />submission of a Registration Form. Some of the information required in the Registration <br />Form is detailed in Section 8-3160(g) of the Ordinance. However, the Ordinance also <br />provides that the Program Administrator, at his/her/their discretion, may require additional <br />information to be collected and recorded in the Registration Form in furtherance of the <br />objectives of the Ordinance. It is important to note that lease agreements, Social Security <br />Numbers, Employer Identification Numbers, or any other confidential information <br />unrelated to compliance with the Ordinance is not collected in the Rental Registry. The <br />City has determined that the information collected in the Registration Form, which is all <br />directly related to Rental Units, is necessary to collect in furtherance of the objectives of <br />the Ordinance. <br />Obtaining accurate contact information in the Rental Registry allows the City to <br />