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rA* <br />DELHI CENTER <br />Building Health and Wealth <br />$05 East Central Avenue <br />Santa Ana, CA 92707 <br />(714) 481.9600 <br />(714) 481.9698 FAX <br />www.delhicentenc rg <br />February 3, 2017 <br />Mayor Miguel Pulido and Members of the City Council <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza <br />P.O. Box 1988, M31 <br />Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />SUBJECT: February 7, 2017 City Council Agenda, Item 80A <br />First Street Apartments, 1440 E. First Street Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />Dear Mayor Pulido and Members of the City Council; <br />I am writing to express my strong support of AMCAL's affordable housing proposal located <br />on First Street in the City of Santa Ana, which is needed now more than ever because of the <br />high cost of housing in Santa Ana and the surrounding communities. Skyrocketing rents and <br />home prices are forcing our families to live in overcrowded housing and substandard housing <br />conditions. Our families are extremely rent burdened, as most of their limited income is used <br />to pay for housing costs. <br />Delhi Center is a non-profit organization founded in 1969 in the Delhi neighborhood of Santa <br />Ana. We work with low income working families and provide a broad range of programs and <br />services that meet the needs of the community. Delhi Center works closely with working <br />families and immigrant communities throughout Santa Ana who are in great need of affordable <br />housing during the current housing crisis in our City. <br />We support AMCAL's proposal for several reasons. Given the housing crises, we need <br />affordable housing to be developed immediately, and First Street is approved and ready to <br />move forward. The rental units are 100% affordable to households earning 30% and 60% of <br />the Area's Median Income, and half of the project provides three and four bedroom units <br />designed for larger families— a great need and almost non-existent in the Santa Ana housing <br />market. <br />After two years of work, the First Street Apartments project is almost a shovel -ready project <br />and prepared to apply for the tax credit financing next month to break ground this year. We <br />know that AMCAL's proposal was approved last year by the City with unanimous approval <br />0111. mi.rsian is to advwue Se-§;ruJ!icknmy lbok�b sxrlahrable pimp ams in baalih,'rnrrndal ssabiki ,, eduvation, wid eornzexni4, egagemellL <br />