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78 <br />income households. The ACS data shows the median contract rent in Santa Ana increased <br />32 percent from 2010 to 2020. As rental prices continue to rise throughout Orange County, <br />the pressure on extremely low-income households will continue to increase. <br />Rapid rehousing programs may help homeless individuals and families; however, unless <br />they secure a housing unit is within a subsidized affordable housing development, formerly <br />homeless families and individuals receiving rapid rehousing assistance face considerable <br />uncertainty with respect to their monthly housing costs and ability to remain stably housed <br />once the assistance contract ends. Near the termination of assistance, finding replacement <br />housing is difficult for the same reasons it was difficult before becoming homeless: high <br />housing cost and the possibility of an eviction record. <br />If a jurisdiction provides estimates of the at-risk population(s), it should also <br />include a description of the operational definition of the at-risk group and the <br />methodology used to generate the estimates: <br />The assessment of at-risk populations described in the foregoing paragraphs in this <br />Consolidated Plan is based on ACS and CHAS data using HUD definitions for household <br />types and housing problems, supplemented by available local data for certain groups <br />specified by HUD, such as households with children and victims of domestic violence, <br />dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. <br />Specify particular housing characteristics that have been linked with instability <br />and an increased risk of homelessness. <br />There are 10,110 renter households who earn up to 50 percent AMI and are severely cost <br />burdened, according to the CHAS data (Table 11). Of these households: <br />-4,530 are small related households with four or fewer members <br />-2,845 are large related households with five or more members <br />-1,445 are elderly households with one or more members over the age of 62 <br />-1,290 are other households <br />These extremely low- and low-income households are considered the most at-risk of <br />becoming homeless. <br />Discussion <br />Of households with incomes at or below 50 percent AMI, 30 percent are cost burdened <br />renters, and 30 percent are overcrowded or severely overcrowded renters (Table 8). Of <br />households with incomes at or below 30 percent AMI, 35 percent are cost burdened renters <br />and 29 percent are overcrowded or severely overcrowded renters (Table 8). These <br />households are presumed to be most at-risk of becoming homeless. To the greatest extent <br />feasible, assistance options could make affordable housing accessible to severely cost <br />burdened and overcrowded renter households earning up to 50 percent AMI. This is one of <br />many ways to prevent homelessness. <br />EXHIBIT 1