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Mitre -Ramirez, Norma <br />From: Tina LeMay EA < <br />Sent: Monday, February 5, 2018 8:35 PM <br />To: eComment <br />Subject: RE: Quick Action: Support Rent Control in Santa Ana! <br />February 6th, 2017 <br />Mayor Miguel Pulido and Councilmembers <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza <br />Santa Ana CA, 92701 <br />RE: Work Study Session on Rent Control/Stabilization - <br />Support Tenant Protections Ordinance <br />Tina LeMay EA supports the efforts by community groups and stakeholders to pass an <br />ordinance that will afford tenants the protections that they need. Santa Ana has a large renter <br />population with 56% of the city's total households serving as rental homes (2017 American <br />Community Survey). We believe that tenants have the right to live in dignified housing; <br />and we need a Tenant Protections Ordinance immediately as Santa Ana tenants live in <br />fear of recurring rent Increases and retaliation in the form of unjust evictions. <br />The city's Housing Element illustrates the need for such ordinance for renters, especially our <br />low income residents. `Approximately 54 percent of households earn lower <br />incomes... Renters typically have the highest percentage of very low income <br />households...' (pg A-10) These low income households have very high rates of rent burden, <br />as they're paying well over 30 percent of their household income on rent. 'The 2011 ACS <br />reports 31,676 households (43 percent) overpaid for housing. Of this total, 67 percent were <br />