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greater stock of low-cost rental housi'ng. In other words, there were more low-cost rental units per low-income renter household in Santa Aha than in Orange County. In the lowest income brackets, almost all households (for which percentage of income spent for rent is computed) pay more than 35% of'~heir incomes for rent. The percentage paying 35% or more for rent rapidly declines as income in- creases. In 1970, 56~ of households in Santa Ana with incomes between $3,000 and $5,000 paid35% or more of their income for rent. This figure fell to 16.3% in the $5,000 to $7,000· ~ncome group, to 2% in 'the $7,00Oto $10,000 group, and to less than.0.1%'among households with $10,000 or more income.. 'The reverse is true at the low end of the scale. In 1970, the proportion of households paying less than 20% of their incomes for rent was negligible for households below $3,000 income. Even in the $2,000 ~ $5,000 income bracket, only 28.2% of households in the $7,000 - $9,999 income group paid less than 20% of income for .rent. ' ' COMPARISON OF RENTER INCOMES AND AVAILABLE RENTAL...UNI.TS: · There is a substantial deficit in the number of rental units in the lower rental brackets. The data for the City for 1970 is shown in Table V-17. This table, is based on converting income data into affordable gross rents. This conversion was made based on a standard of "25% of gross income affordable for gross rent" by one and two person households and "20% of gross income affordable for gross rent" by three or more person households. The "affordable gross rent" figures (the figures in the "Renter Households" sections of the table) are 'estimates since some parts o~ the income distributions had to be estimated in making the conversion of income data to affordable rent 'data. The "Renter Households" section of Table V-17 is based on converting renter household income data into affordable gross rents with allowances made, by income group and house- hold size, for the existence of no cash rent units, The "Rental Units" section of the table contains data both for. occupied units, by room·size, and for vacant units. The vacant unit data is based on conversion of asking rents1 for vacant units to estimated gross rents. In computing the "Comparison" section, in each rent category, the total for all occupied and vacant rental units was subtracted from the. total renter households. The resulting figures are shown in the '!Difference" line. That line in turn is converted into the "Cumulative Deficit" line. It should be noted 'lAsking' rents are similar to contr~t rents rather than gross rents, since they may or may not include payment for utilities.' · O000.qe