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May 6, 2025 VIA Electronic Mail Office of the City Clerk, Santa Ana 20 Civi Center Plaza M-30 Santa Ana, CA 92701 eComment@santa-ana.org Re: Item #23 of May 6, 2025,City Council Meeting Dear MayorAmezcua, Mayor Pro TemVazquez, and Councilmembers Phan, Lopez, Bacerra, Hernandez, and Penaloza, Public Law Center is a nonprofit organization located in Santa Ana providing free legal services to low-income individuals and families across Orange County, including housing law services. Our clients often constitutethe individualsand familieswho reside in or qualify for permanent supportive housing. We right to express grave concerns about the policy proposed in Item 23 for the May 6, 2025 regularCity Council Meeting for the City of Santa Ana. Item 23 proposes monthly inspection of permanent supportive housing communities within the City of Santa Ana and the posting of the results of those inspections on the City of Santa Anas website.We believe any such policies would violate multiple state and federal laws and that the policy is not supported or justified by the singular, referenced event in the Councilmember-Requested Item Report. Violation of State Planning and Zoningand Housing Element Laws Government Code section 65008 states that a\]ny action pursuant to this title by any city, county, city and county, or other local governmental agency in this state is null and void if it denies to any individual or group of individuals the enjoyment of residence, landownership, tenancy, or any other land use in this state because of any of the following reasons(1) \[individuals identified in California anti housing discriminationlaws\]. (2)The method of financing of any residential development of the individual or group of individuals.(3)The intended occupancy of any residential development by personsor families of very low, low, moderate, or middle income.es enjoyment of residence housing laws referenced below, Government Code section 65008 prohibits actions that deny enjoyment of residencen the basis of the method of financing of the housing and on the intended occupancy of the housing by individuals whoare lower-income. A policy requiring monthly inspections of Permanent Supportive Housing would deny residents residencesimply because it is Permanent Supportive Housing which usually receivesspecial governmentor other financing and whichis intended to be occupied by lower income residents.