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EL CENTRO <br />CULTURAL <br />.� LSE ME CO <br />313 N. Biroh Reel Smia Ana. 0%92701 <br />February Sth, 2017 <br />Mayor Miguel Pulido and Councilmembers <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza <br />P.O. Box 1988, M31 <br />Santa Ana CA, 92701 <br />RE: Work Study Session on Rent Control/Stabilization - <br />Support Tenant Protections Ordinance <br />Founded in 1994, "El Centro' serves as a synergistic, cultural organization and space that <br />emphasizes the empowering effect of identity and collective work, particularly for youth <br />and families in Santa Ana, California. We want to state our support for supports the efforts <br />by community groups and stakeholders to pass an ordinance that will afford tenants the <br />protections that they need. Santa Ana has a large renter population with -56% of the city's <br />total households serving as rental homes (2017 American Community Survey). We believe <br />that tenants have the right to live in dignified housing; and we need a Tenant <br />Protections Ordinance immediately as Santa Ana tenants live in fear of recurring rent <br />increases and retaliation in the form of unjust evictions. <br />The city's Housing Element illustrates the need for such ordinance for renters, especially <br />our 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, 57 percent <br />were renters (21,496 households)... Housing overpayment is most severe among <br />extremely low and low income households and special needs groups.' (pg. A-20) <br />It is important to protect our immigrants, workers, and youth from the traumatic effects <br />that displacement has on our communities. Policies such as just Cause Evictions have been <br />"Cuando la cultura muere, la gente muere..." <br />yy,�,,�g�,�t�,�i 1 rau Itl®m�xico ora <br />