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Substandard Housing <br />Incomplete plumbing or kitchen facilities and housing stock age can be used to measure <br />substandard housing conditions. Incomplete facilities and housing age are based on the HUD <br />CHAS data (based on 2016-2020 ACS). <br />Regional Trend <br />Approximately 1.4 percent of households in the county lack complete plumbing or kitchen <br />facilities. Incomplete facilities are more common among renter -occupied households. Only 0.4 <br />percent of owner households lack complete plumbing or kitchen facilities compared to 2.7 percent <br />of renters (Table 19). <br />Table 19 <br />Incomplete Facilities <br />Lacking Complete Plumbing or Kitchen <br />Facilities <br />Total <br />Households <br />Households <br />Percent <br />Santa Ana <br />Owner -Occupied <br />140 <br />0.40% <br />36,590 <br />Renter -Occupied <br />585 <br />1.40% <br />42,550 <br />Total <br />725 <br />1.00% <br />79,140 <br />Orange County <br />Owner -Occupied <br />2,150 <br />0.40% <br />595,230 <br />Renter -Occupied <br />11,890 <br />2.70% <br />444,775 <br />Total <br />14,040 <br />1.40% <br />1,040,005 <br />Source: HUD CHAS Data (based on 2016-2020 ACS). <br />Housing age can also be used as an indicator for substandard housing and rehabilitation needs. <br />In general, residential structures over 30 years of age require minor repairs and modernization <br />improvements, while units over 50 years of age are likely to require major rehabilitation such as <br />roofing, plumbing, and electrical system repairs. In the county, 85.6 percent of the housing stock <br />was built prior to 2000, including 59.6 percent built prior to 1980. <br />Local Trend <br />Less than 1 percent of owner -occupied households in Santa Ana lacks complete plumbing or <br />kitchen facilities (Table 19). A slightly larger proportion of renter -occupied units compared to the <br />share of owner -occupied units lack complete facilities. Overall, the percentages of owner - <br />occupied households that lack complete facilities in Santa Ana (0.4 percent) same as the county <br />rate (0.4 percent), and Santa Ana's rate for renter units of 1.4 percent is less than the countywide <br />rate of 2.7 percent. <br />Nearly 80 percent of the city's housing stock was built prior to 1980 and approximately 94 percent <br />was built prior to 2000. The biggest construction boom happening between 1960 and 1979 as the <br />city was being built out (Table 20). Units produced during that construction boom make up 43.7 <br />percent of the housing stock in the city. Units built prior to 1960 make up 35.2 percent of the <br />housing stock. In general, the housing stock in Santa Ana is older than that of the county as a <br />