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For two bedroom housing, the worker must put in 70 hours, and up to 115 hours for four <br />bedrooms. Housing costs for Santa Ana do not vary significantly from the Orange County mean. <br />Hence, the work hours to affordable housing ratio is far worse for Santa Ana. <br />Clearly, more members of Santa families have to work to make ends meet than for Orange <br />County or for California as a whole. Household income figures show that they do so. These <br />statistics reveal a population that struggles, perhaps because of language issues, in educational <br />attainment and hence income. That fact forms the background for understanding both the <br />program goals and program costs underlying workforce preparation, management, and support <br />for the City. <br />A Regional Approach to Local Issues <br />No city exists in isolation. Every city has a mobile labor population, and in the case of Santa Ana <br />there is both a noteworthy influx of labor but an even more significant labor outflow. The same <br />is true of services. Though some labor force related services are limited to local residents by <br />statute or regulation, Santa Ana residents are not limited to seeking educational, social, and <br />other job- related services within city borders. <br />However, the definition of region is complex. Each Federal and State agency defines its region <br />or locus of activities differently. The same is true for statistical compilations. For example, the <br />BLS Labor Market Information (LMI) database crosses into Los Angeles County to include Long <br />Beach, and indeed a major grant for community colleges to be administered in Santa Ana <br />beginning in fiscal 2014 includes the MSA in its administrative purview. Other definitions <br />include mostly northern Orange County, but stop at the border of Irvine to the southeast, <br />because it is so different. Accordingly, we have defined a regional context for WIB services in <br />terms of the fluidity of the Santa Ana workforce, geographical nearness, emerging economic <br />trends, current and future industry, and the provision of job - related services. <br />• Geographic Contiguity. The five <br />contiguous incorporated cities <br />most like Santa Ana in <br />demographics are Fountain <br />Valley, Garden Grove, Orange, <br />Tustin, and Westminster. This <br />expanded area, plus Yorba Linda <br />and Fullerton, contains many of <br />the services Santa Ana residents <br />use and whose residents use <br />some of Santa Ana's services. This <br />regional "catch basin," plus <br />Anaheim, also produces a <br />preponderance of the jobs at <br />which Santa Ana residents work. <br />Stanton'`w'``,""? <br />La Palma <br />Los <br />Atam�tas Anahsfm fi 4 <br />In <br />� 7ustcn <br />Huntmgto r <br />Beach <br />r <br />19F -10 <br />