Written Comments — Santa Monica City Council, July 12, 2022

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From: Peter DiChellis <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 8, 2022 3:27 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Agenda Item 11A - Transfer Tax

EXTERNAL
Strongly favor placing this on the November ballot. Voters deserve choices in Transfer Tax ballot measures.

Sincerely,
Peter DiChellis ‐ Unaffiliated moderate
Santa Monica ‐ 90403
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July 12, 2022 Item 11-A — OPPOSE
Councilmembers, item 11-A on your agenda tonight risks severe consequences for betraying on-record assurances made in the Housing Element submitted to the California Department of Housing and Community Development by your own vote just three weeks ago.

Those assurances, which I shall detail, commit our City to support measures that would generate and allocate tax revenues for deed-restricted affordable housing, and for housing stability assistance for distressed renters, such as our pioneering P.O.D. (Preserve Our Diversity) program.

Over the past months, over 10,000 Santa Monica residents signed petitions to successfully qualify a November ballot measure that would specifically fulfill the Council’s Housing Element policy assurances. The language of that voter-supported initiative directly commits generated transfer-tax revenue to, as described in the City Attorney’s Ballot Title and Summary, “…provide ongoing or emergency income assistance, acquire and rehabilitate existing rental properties as deed-restricted affordable housing, create new deed-restricted housing, and fund programs and services designed to preserve and improve affordable housing for lower income households.”
At a budget session in late May, Councilmember Brock proposed a competing measure, which is before you tonight, requesting your affirmative vote to place it on the November ballot. It targets similar transfer-tax revenue to be used for different purposes, and was deliberately crafted with a “poison pill” that would thwart the resident-powered initiative to fulfill Housing Element policy promises.

There can be no doubt of that hostile intent, as a few days later Councilmember Brock posted on Twitter,
Further, on June 1st, Councilmember Brock released via Facebook a “public letter” explaining why he wants to quash the affordable-housing measure. In that Facebook post he says that previous affordable-housing tax allocations have been very generous, and, “I'm in full support of these measures but do not believe the City's taxpayers should be asked to provide millions of dollars for new affordable housing in lieu of addressing issues of much more pressing concern to our residents.” The underlying intent of the proposed ballot measure you will consider tonight is, then, well documented. Its primary proponent himself has made clear that his proposal was deliberately designed to thwart the resident-generated affordable-housing ballot measure, and thereby contradict the Housing Element policy assurances submitted to HCD by the Council.

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As a reminder, those assurances include the following Housing Element policies:

Program 2.E (Commit To The Production Of Affordable Housing On City-Owned/Publicly-Owned Land): "Support measures that are not housing constraints to generate and allocate tax revenue for the acquisition and development of deed restricted affordable housing.” Program 2.F (New Affordable Housing Finance Programs To Enable Continued Provision Of Technical And Financial Assistance For Housing Production). "Support measures that are not housing constraints to generate and allocate tax revenue for the acquisition and development of deed-restricted affordable housing.”
Program 6.B (Seek Funding Sources to Support Rental Assistance for Vulnerable Individuals And Households At-Risk Of Displacement). “The City shall continue to pursue and identify new funding sources that support rental assistance programs, including emergency rental assistance for individuals and households at risk of displacement throughout the city with a goal to provide emergency rental assistance to at least 100 households throughout the city over the Housing Element cycle.”
Program 6.C (Maintain And Expand The Preserving Our Diversity (POD) Program). "Support measures that are not housing constraints to generate and allocate tax revenue for income assistance."
Besides the conflict the Brock measure creates with the above programs you chose and voted to include in Santa Monica’s Housing Element, an action to oppose affordable housing funding and production is inherently inconsistent with our Regional Housing Need Assessment (RHNA) mandate and with the very reason cities are required to submit compliant Housing Elements.

The consequences of an unwise “yes” vote to put the proposed affordability-killer measure on the ballot are gruesomely clear. The “poison pill” provision means the resident-generated affordable-housing measure cannot go into effect if this competing measure (with an enticingly lower tax levy) gets just one vote more, even if both exceed the 50% needed to pass.

Lacking the funding needed to support distressed renters, Santa Monica will see displacement of lower-income residents and a continuing crisis in housing affordability.

Tens of millions of dollars for subsidizing deed-restricted affordable housing will be lost, along with the opportunity to leverage that money with grants and tax credits. Our City will therefore almost certainly fail to meet state affordable-housing requirements.

The Council’s willful pre-emption of the resident-powered ballot initiative to use transfer taxes for housing affordability would likely be seen by state observers as a demonstration of bad faith with respect to the Housing Element you voted to submit three weeks ago. That could goad California housing officials into greater intervention against our local zoning, perhaps even choosing to make an example of us.

Is that what we want?
It all hangs on your vote tonight.

Please vote NO on item 11-A.

Kevin McKeown, former Mayor
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From: Paul Rosenstein <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 12:13 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Item 11A: Property tax transfer measure

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I urge the Council to vote against putting Item 11A on the ballot.

This measure, backed by real estate/developer/business interests (with its poison pill provision), has been publicly described by its proponent as an effort to kill the 10,000 citizen-petitioned transfer tax measure (Item 11D) designed to alleviate our affordable housing crisis and provide needed aid to our schools. The city staff describes 11A as generating a “very volatile” source of revenue - thus it promises more than it likely would deliver.

For this reason, Item 11A if adopted, will call into question the city’s housing policies, passed three weeks ago, and raise the specter of the State imposing its own policies on the city.

Data from the US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development shows that 20% of Santa Monica’s renters suffer “severe cost burden,” and another 10% are “rent burdened.” The citizen initiated tax measure (Item 11D) is needed to provided badly needed affordable housing for our residents.

Item 11D will help alleviate homelessness for Santa Monicans. It will also help provide housing for the tens of thousands of low income workers who presently commute to the city, aggravating our traffic issues. Item 11D will help implement the city’s policies. Item 11A will undermine them.

Paul Rosenstein
Former Mayor
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From: Alla Lonberg <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 12:01 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Council Mailbox; Phil Brock; Gleam Davis; Oscar de la Torre; Sue Himmelrich; Kristin McCowan; Lana Negrete; Christine Parra
Subject: Regarding Item 11.A on the July 12, 2022 City Council Agenda

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Dear City Councilmembers,
My name is Alla Lonberg and I live in a CCSM building here in Santa Monica. I also am a member of the CCSM Residents Advisory Board. I am writing to urge you to reject the proposal to place a transfer tax measure on the November ballot in an effort to compete with and undermine the citizens' transfer tax initiative signed by more than 10,000 Santa Monica residents. Unlike the citizens' initiative, the proposed competing measure provides zero dollars for affordable housing and zero dollars for rent subsidy for struggling renters. Placing this competing measure on the ballot in an attempt to undermine the citizens' initiative is inconsistent with Santa Monica values.

I know first‐hand what a difference it makes to live in housing that is affordable. I have been fortunate to live in the wonderful city of Santa Monica thanks to CCSM and affordable housing. As an immigrant, I was able to live in this beautiful city that afforded my family and especially my children a better life. As a result, they were able attend excellent schools that prepared them for a world that was unfamiliar to me, and since, they have gone on to live successful lives. I was also able to attend college here, and I credit this to CCSM and affordable housing, without which, this would not have been possible.

I appreciate the prior Santa Monica efforts that created a place in our community that is affordable to me. I urge you not to try to undermine the citizens' initiative which seeks to create the funding necessary to help more lower-income people afford to continue to live or to move to Santa Monica, and to assure that their and all of our community's children can continue to benefit from excellent public schools.

Thank you,
Sincerely,
Alla Lonberg
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From: Patricia Hoffman <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 11:25 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: No on 11A, Yes on 11B, Yes on 11D

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Mayor Himmelrich, Councilmembers:

I want to add my voice to the chorus of hundreds who have asked that you vote against putting Item 11A on the ballot. Please vote no on 11A. 11A is in direct competition with and could kill the people’s initiative in Item 11D.

More than 10,000 Santa Monica voters have said that they want to tax extremely high-value real estate in order to subsidize rent burdened low-income Santa Monicans to keep them from becoming homeless, to build more affordable housing for our local work force, and to continue to guarantee high quality schools even if Malibu takes its money and runs. I strongly support Item 11D. I know you will be voting yes on it but I hope you will do so enthusiastically and that you will enthusiastically support the measure since you will be helping so many of your constituents by doing so.

Right now you will also have the opportunity to help many of the tenants of Santa Monica by voting yes on Item 11B. You can also place a 3% cap on general adjustments to the maximum allowable rents, in addition to the other components of Item 11B.

You have a rare opportunity to be heroes to thousands of struggling Santa Monicans in this very scary moment of uncertainty. Please vote no on Item 11A. Please vote yes on Item 11B and yes on Item 11D.

Thank you,
Patricia Hoffman.

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From: Jennifer Gordon <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 3:26 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Agenda item 11A

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This is to register my support for placing the transfer tax measure described in this agenda item on the November 2022 ballot. Raising additional funds for the purposes described in the proposed advisory measure is extremely important for the well being of Santa Monica’s residents and I urge the Council to give voters a chance to vote on this item.

Sincerely,
Jennifer Gordon
Sent from my iPad
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Dear Santa Monica City Councilmembers:

The tenants of Santa Monica need and deserve your timely and effective intervention on an issue of great significance to their security in their homes. Due to historically high inflation, rentcontrolled tenants face up to a 6% rent increase starting in September 2022. This threatened rent increase constitutes a crisis for all rent-controlled tenants, all of whom already have to stretch their budgets to cover soaring gasoline and food costs. And it constitutes an absolute dire emergency for the roughly three-in-ten (9,500+ total) Santa Monica renter households who are both lower income and already “housing cost burdened” according to HUD (because they already spend more than 30% of their limited incomes on rent and utilities), and most especially for the roughly two-in-ten (6,500+ total) Santa Monica renter households who are both lower income and already “severely housing cost burdened” according to HUD (because they already spend more than half their limited incomes on rent).

SMRR urges the City Council to take three actions in response to this crisis:

1. Place on the November 2022 ballot an amendment to the City Charter that lowers the maximum annual general adjustment allowed from the current 6% to 3%. The ballot measure should provide that this new cap will become effective immediately upon passage (or, if deemed legally more proper, on December 1, 2022 or January 1, 2023), and that any generaladjustment rent increase above 3% imposed by a landlord from September 1, 2022 through the effective date of the Charter amendment must be reduced to just 3% going forward (as must the Maximum Allowable Rent for purposes of future application of the Santa Monica Rent Control Law). If legally permissible, the ballot measure also should provide for refunds to tenants of all amounts collected in excess of the 3% cap for the period from September 1, 2022 through the prospective effective date of the new cap. 3% is the permanent cap on the general adjustment just enacted by the City of Oakland for purposes of its rent control law;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance prohibiting a rent-controlled landlord from charging more than the current maximum allowable rent plus 3% during the period from September 1, 2022 through the proposed effective date of the Charter amendment (unless the landlord demonstrates through the petition process described in the Charter that it cannot earn the constitutionally mandated fair return absent a larger rent increase).

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3. Withdraw or reject the proposal of Councilmember Brock to place on the November 2022 ballot his transfer tax measure, which does not provide even one penny for ongoing or emergency rent subsidy programs, and instead support the citizens’ initiative signed by more than 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide an estimated $10 million to $20 million in annual funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs as needed.

A detailed explanation of both the current crisis and SMRR’s proposed solutions follows.

I. THE UNFAIR AND UNNECESSARY RENT-INCREASE CRISIS FACING SANTA MONICA’S RENT-CONTROLLED HOUSEHOLDS
The current formula for calculation of the annual General Adjustment of the maximum allowable rent landlords may charge for rent-controlled apartments in Santa Monica (“the GA”) is 75% of the change in the Consumer Price Index (All Urban Consumers, Los Angeles, Riverside, Orange County region) (“the CPI”) for the twelve month period ending as of March of the current year.

The GA is subject to an absolute cap of no more than 6%, and the Rent Control Board (“the RCB”) has discretion to impose an additional absolute dollar cap calculated in the manner prescribed in the Charter.
1 This formula for calculation of the GA was approved by Santa Monica voters in 2012. At that time Santa Monica’s 6% cap was lower than the cap in other California cities with comparable rent control laws.
2 As everyone is painfully aware, inflation now is at a 40 year high due to a combination of the effects of the COVID pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As a result, the CPI used in the 2022 GA calculation rose 8.5%. Under the existing Charter provisions, this means that the GA rent increase effective September 1, 2022 for each rent-controlled household in Santa Monica will be the lesser of 6% of the current monthly rent, or $140 per month (the absolute dollar cap calculated in the manner prescribed by the Charter, and adopted by the RCB at its June 9, 2022 meeting).

This level of increase in monthly rent, on top of the more broadly-based inflation, would not be fair, nor equitable, nor appropriate for Santa Monica’s rent-controlled tenants. The looming 6% rent increase presents a crisis for any rent-controlled household at this time when gasoline prices have climbed over 40%, and grocery prices have risen over 10%. But the looming 6% rent increase presents an absolute dire emergency for the 9500+ Santa Monica renter households that are both lower income and already identified by HUD as housing cost burdened (i.e., paying more than 30% of their limited income for rent and utilities), and most especially for the 6500+ such households already identified by HUD as severely housing cost burdened because they already pay more than half their limited income for rent and utilities:
1 See Santa Monica Charter Section 1805.
2 See, e.g., June 28, 2012 RCB Staff Report entitled “Proposed Change to the Rent Control Charter Amendment Relating to Calculating the Annual General Adjustment and Allowing for a Dollar-Amount Ceiling” at 3-4 (lowest GA cap among Berkeley, East Palo Alto, Los Angeles, San Francisco and West Hollywood was 7%).

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(Source: HUD Community Housing Assessment Data for Santa Monica City. Lower Income households are those earning 80% or less of the HUD Area Median Family Income (HAMFI).) Nor is a 6% rent increase generally necessary to assure the constitutionally mandated fair return to landlords. The GA system was developed at a time when Santa Monica had vacancy control; that is, rents did not reset to the current market rates even when an old tenant vacated the apartment and a new tenant moved in. The GA system assured that landlords continued to earn a fair return despite vacancy control.

As of 1999, however, the State (through the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act) imposed a vacancy decontrol system on Santa Monica whereby the rent in each apartment reset to market every time an old tenant vacated and a new tenant moved in. As a result, more than 73% of the rent-controlled apartments in the City have reset to market rent levels at least once since 1999, 3 and many have reset multiple times (a trend that is accelerating). 4 Indeed, among rent controlled
properties consisting of 4-15 units (the size of property which makes up 90% of all rentcontrolled properties), 90% have had more than half of their units reset to market at least once since 1999, and 98% have had at least one unit reset.5
Given the foregoing, as well as the steep upward trend in Santa Monica rents since 1999, most landlords already receive far more than the rent necessary to assure the constitutionally mandated fair return on their investment. This is illustrated by the following table from page 17 of the 2021 RCB annual report which shows that the median rents on those rent-controlled apartments that have reset to market at least once are more than double the rents on comparable apartments that only have had GA adjustments (which already are generally sufficient to assure a fair return to the landlord):
3 See 2021 RCB Annual Report at 11-12 & Fig. 3.
4 For example, the RCB’s 2019 Annual Report—the last annual report prior to the COVID-19 pandemic—advises that sixty-five percent of the tenants who moved into rent-controlled units in 2015 already had moved out four years later. That same report also advises that of the tenancies that began in 2019, 46 percent replaced tenants who had moved in during the prior three years and that “[t]his is a higher percentage than had vacated in the three years prior to 2018, suggesting the pace at which recent tenants vacate is increasing.” See 2019 RCB Annual Report at 20. 5 See 2021 RCB Annual Report at 13 & Fig. 6.

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II. SMRR’S PROPOSED SOLUTIONS
The current unfair and unnecessary rent-increase crisis threatens the very purpose for which the voters enshrined rent control in the Santa Monica City Charter: “so that rents will not be increased unreasonably and so that landlords will receive no more than a fair return.”6 The RCB concluded that the Charter gives it no power to deviate from the GA provisions set forth in Section 1805, and therefore it cannot avert this crisis. 7 The City Council therefore must act.

A. Place On The November 2022 Ballot A Charter Amendment Limiting The GA To A Maximum Of 3% Per Year
The fundamental flaw in the Charter revealed by the current crisis is that the GA cap of 6% is too high. It is too high because such a rent increase will cause the very hardship and housing instability that the Santa Monica Rent Control Law seeks to avoid, and because State mandatedvacancy decontrol has rendered such an increase unnecessary to provide landlords their constitutionally mandated fair return.

The Oakland City Council recently amended its rent control law to permanently cap the annual general adjustment at 3%. Absent that action, Oakland rent-controlled tenants would have faced a 6.7% rent increase (even higher than what current Santa Monica law permits).

Because the Santa Monica Rent Control Law is in the City Charter, the City Council should place on the November ballot a measure to amend the Charter to lower the GA cap from 6% to 3%. Such a cap is a proper means of protecting rent-controlled households from unreasonable rent increases while still assuring landlords of their constitutionally mandated fair return. For the GA to exceed 3% as it currently is calculated (i.e., at 75% of the annual change in CPI measured as of March), the change in CPI itself must exceed 4% (because 75% of 4% = 3%). But that has occurred only twice in the last 30 years—this year, and in 2006 (a year in which 75% of CPI equaled 3.5%)—as is shown in the following table of annual CPI changes as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
6 Santa Monica Charter Section 1800.
7 See June 9, 2022 RCB Report entitled “Public hearing on proposed Charter amendment to give the Board discretion to suspend rent increases during a declared emergency” at 2.

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(Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, CPI for All Urban Consumers, 12-Month Percent Change, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. The GA as currently calculated would exceed 3% only when the annual CPI change as of March reported here exceeded 4%.)
Thus, a 3% cap only limits the GA in extraordinary times (just as the floor of 0% protects landlords from a reduction in rent in extraordinary times, such as occurred in 2009 when 75% of CPI equaled a decrease of 0.75%). Such a limit to protect rent-controlled households is proper given that (1) vacancy decontrol more than makes up for any occasional limit on the GA due to the cap, thereby generally assuring landlords of their constitutionally mandated fair return, and (2) to the extent that an occasional individual landlord requires a greater increase to assure a fair return, it has the right to file a rent increase petition with the RCB.

This ballot measure should provide that the new cap will become effective immediately upon passage (or, if deemed legally more proper, on December 1, 2022 or January 1, 2023), and that any increase in rent above the 3% cap that became effective at any time from September 1, 2022 through the effective date of the Charter amendment must be reduced to just 3% going forward Item 11.A
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(as well as the Maximum Allowable Rent for purposes of future application of the Santa Monica Rent Control Law).
8 If legally permissible, the ballot measure also should provide for refunds to tenants of all amounts collected in excess of the 3% cap for the period from September 1, 2022 through the effective date of the new cap. The City Attorney needs to provide advice to the City Council on this issue, but we note that factors that could favor the legality of such a provision include (1) the importance of the public policy of protecting renters from unreasonable and unnecessary rent increases—particularly in this time of high inflation (caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and supply chain issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic), with the lingering other economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the massive numbers of rent burdened lower income tenants in the City, (2) the minimal impact on landlords (i.e., nothing more than a return of rent above a 3% increase that at most could have been collected for a few months), and (3) the lack of reasonable reliance by landlords in light of their knowledge prior to September 1, 2022, that a provision ordering a refund of rent increases above 3% will appear on the November 2022 ballot.

B. Pass An Ordinance Prohibiting Rent-Controlled Landlords From Charging More Than The Current Maximum Allowable Rent Plus 3% During The Period From September 1, 2022 Through The Prospective Effective Date Of The Charter Amendment
The vote on a Charter amendment to cap the GA at 3% will not take place until November 8, 2022. In order to prevent landlords from imposing 6% rent increases prior to the voters having the opportunity to consider and adopt the proposed Charter amendment, the City Council should—if legally permissible—pass an ordinance prohibiting rent-controlled landlords from charging more than the current maximum allowable rent plus 3% at any time during the period from September 1, 2022 through the prospective effective date of the Charter amendment (unless authorized by the RCB pursuant to an individual adjustment petition).

The City Attorney needs to provide advice to the City Council on this issue. We note the following.

First, the Santa Monica Rent Control Law does not state that a landlord is affirmatively authorized to charge the maximum lawful rent as calculated under that law. Rather, it simply states that a landlord may not charge more than the maximum lawful rent as calculated under that law. There is no express conflict between that prohibition and an ordinance requiring landlords, to charge less than the maximum lawful rent as calculated under existing law during the period that the voters are considering whether to amend the Charter to lower the maximum lawful rent.

Second, the RCB—the agency charged with enforcement of the Santa Monica Rent Control Law—has determined that the law does not provide it with the power to determine a generally applicable rent increase other than pursuant to the formulas set forth in Charter Section 1805, 9 8 This is the approach taken by the Legislature when it adopted AB 1482. See California Civil Code § 1947.12(h)(2)(A).
9 See June 9, 2022 RCB Report entitled “Public hearing on proposed Charter amendment to give the Board discretion to suspend rent increases during a declared emergency” at 2.

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and therefore that the RCB has no power to consider whether a lower rent increase is generally necessary and/or appropriate in these extraordinary times in order to advance the general health and welfare and/or the overall purposes of the Santa Monica Rent Control Law. Given that the RCB lacks this police power, the Charter expressly provides that this police power remains with the City Council: (1) Section 400 of the Charter provides that “[t]he City shall have the power to make and enforce all laws and regulations in respect to municipal affairs, subject only to such restrictions and limitations as may be provided in this Charter and in the Constitution of the State of California,” and that “[t]he enumeration in this Charter of any particular power shall not be held to be exclusive of or any limitation upon, this general grant of power,” and (2) Section 605 of the Charter provides that “[a]ll powers of the City shall be vested in the City Council, subject to the provisions of this Charter and to the Constitution of the State of California.” Third, because the RCB has determined that it lacks this police power, exercise of this police power by the City Council does not constitute interference with the RCB’s exercise of its powers and duties under the Santa Monica Rent Control law within the meaning of Section 1802 of the Charter. Moreover, because the proposed ordinance would expressly allow landlords to charge more than the current maximum allowable rent plus 3% if the RCB determines that an individual adjustment is proper, the proposed ordinance would not constitute interference with the powers and duties of the RCB to make individual adjustments when warranted.

Fourth, the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act does not eliminate this police power. The only prohibition in that Act on local regulation of ongoing (as opposed to initial) rental rates for a tenancy is found in California Civil Code Section 1954.52(a), a section that only applies to buildings whose certificates of occupancy were issued on or after February 1, 1995. This necessarily excludes rent-controlled buildings in Santa Monica, given that the Rent Control Law expressly exempts rental units and dwelling constructed after the adoption of that law in April of 1979.10
Fifth, AB 1482 does not eliminate this police power. California Civil Code Section 1947.12(m)(3) expressly states that “[n]othing in this section . . . affects the existing authority of a local government to adopt or maintain rent controls or prices controls consistent with [the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act].” As just discussed, nothing in Costa-Hawkins precludes the City Council from adopting the proposed ordinance.

C. Withdraw Or Reject Councilmember Brock’s Transfer Tax Proposal— Which Provides NO MONEY For Emergency Or Ongoing Rent Subsidy Programs—And Support Instead The Citizens’ Initiative Transfer Tax Measure Which Will Provide An Estimated $10 Million To $20 Million Annually For Use In Such Programs As Needed
As already explained, the potential 6% increase in rents is a crisis for all rent-controlled households, and is an absolute dire emergency for the 9500+ Santa Monica renter households that are both lower income and already identified by HUD as “housing cost burdened” (i.e., paying more than 30% of their limited income for rent and utilities), and most especially for the 6500+ such households already identified by HUD as “severely housing cost burdened” because they already pay more than half their limited income for rent and utilities. 10 See Santa Monica Charter Section 1801(c)(5).

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Even with adoption of the first two SMRR proposals, rent-controlled households will face a 3% increase in rent starting on September 1. While far better than a 6% increase, even this 3% increase will be larger than any other GA increase during the preceding decade, and will be twice the average GA increase during the previous ten years:
(Source: July 28, 2021 RCB Fact Sheet on Registration Fees and Surcharges.) Even before the crisis posed by the pending 6% rent increase, the need for the City to fund emergency and ongoing rent subsidy programs to help keep our rent-burdened lower-income neighbors in their homes with dignity was obvious. Unless the City is prepared to turn its back on its most vulnerable residents—including many elders, children, and persons facing physical and/or mental challenges—it must find the resources to fund emergency and ongoing rent subsidy programs. Otherwise, Santa Monica will lose its soul and become an economicallygated community, a Beverly Hills by the Sea.

It is not surprising then that more than 10,000 Santa Monica residents signed petitions to place on the November ballot the citizens’ initiative entitled “Funding for Homelessness Prevention, Affordable Housing and Schools.” This initiative will support a comprehensive set of programs to keep Santa Monica an economically inclusive City where all of its residents—including lower income residents of all ages—can live and thrive. As most directly relevant to the looming rent increase crisis, that initiative if passed by the voters will make an estimated $10 million to $20 million available annually for use as needed in emergency and ongoing rent subsidy programs. It will do so by imposing a 5% tax on the entire proceeds of sales of only those properties worth $8 million or more. A similar citizens’ initiative transfer tax measure will appear on the Los Angeles City ballot in November after some 100,000 Angelinos also signed petitions there.

Inexplicably, Councilmember Brock has proposed that the City Council put a competing transfer tax measure on the November ballot in an openly stated effort to defeat the citizens’ initiative.

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does not provide even one penny for ongoing or emergency rent subsidy (or for any of the other programs designed to maintain an economically inclusive Santa Monica).

Councilmember Brock’s proposal was raised during a budget discussion at around 1 a.m. in the morning at a City Council meeting that Mayor Himmelrich (an official proponent of the citizens’ initiative) could not attend because she was sick at home with COVID-19. We hope that, with the clear light of day and further opportunity to reflect, Councilmember Brock will withdraw his proposal to undermine the citizens’ initiative and to deprive the City of the funds it needs to address the critical needs of so many of its rent-burdened lower-income residents. But if that hope is dashed, SMRR calls on the rest of the City Council to reject his competing transfer tax measure. If additional funds are needed by the City for other purposes, City Council should propose some other form of non-competing tax measure. Santa Monica values demand nothing less.

Thank you for considering SMRR’s views on this critical issue.

Sincerely,
Denny Zane Mike Soloff
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Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 4:58 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! From: L Hammer <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 4:47 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

EXTERNAL
Regarding item 11A, please reject this effort to compete with and undermine the citizens’ transfer‐tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs, as well as for affordable housing and our public schools. Regarding item 11B, please support the Charter Amendment requests of the Rent Control Board AND ALSO ACT NOW to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent‐controlled tenants by supporting a further Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; AND if legally permissible, support passing an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Many Blessings Upon You for Caring . . .
for those of us in Santa Monica on limited incomes.

Thank you so much.

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Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! From: Carl J Johnson <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 3:22 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

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Regarding item 11A, please reject this effort to compete with and undermine the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs, as well as for affordable housing and our public schools. Regarding item 11B, please support the Charter Amendment requests of the Rent Control Board AND ALSO ACT NOW to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rentcontrolled tenants by supporting a further Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; AND if legally permissible, support passing an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Please do what you can to prevent my rent from being raised 6% each year. I can barely keep up with the 3% raise each year.

Thank you.

Carl J. Johnson
3120 4th St. Apt.9
Santa Monica 90405
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Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]> Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents

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From: Victor Stella <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 3:45 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

Thanks, i live on a very very modest pension and social security and goes without saying for myself and all the other low income renters, that i hope you folks can defeat that bill , because there are folks in worse financial strains than myself and i wish the Councilmembers good luck and full speed ahead ટઠડટઠડthank you,, Vick Stella, 10th st. S.M.

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From: Tate <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 3:48 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! What about the teachers?

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Dear Board Members,
My name is Robert Groome and I live at 1037 Euclid St. #G in Santa Monica. I am writing to notify you that the upcoming 6% rent hike will be a disaster for me. I am a retired school teach, 65 years old living alone in my rent controlled unit in Santa Monica. Rent control apartments like mine have been a life saver for me and other teachers I know in the area.

Even so, I have always had just enough money to pay rent, my bills, and eat. I cannot believe this rent hike will take place or was even proposed since I risk not having any extra funds to pay because of my fixed retirement income. I have been living in Santa Monica since 2000, my son was born here and I taught here my whole adult life. How can this rent hike of more than $90 for my one bedroom apartment be even thinkable for retirees and school teachers? Beyond the damage such a hike will do to the local color of Santa Monica, what will happen when all our school teachers will be driven from the area because they cannot afford to pay rent? Who will drive through LA traffic to Santa Monica just to get a teachers salary? Nobody I know. Surely this rent hike was not thought through.

Regarding item 11A, please reject this effort to compete with and undermine the citizens’ transfer‐tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs, as well as for affordable housing and our public schools. Regarding item 11B, please support the Charter Amendment requests of the Rent Control Board AND ALSO ACT NOW to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent‐controlled tenants by supporting a further Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; AND if legally permissible, support passing an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you,
Robert Groome
1037 Euclid St. #G
Santa Monica, CA 90403
310‐428‐2598
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Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! From: Eric Rosengard <[email protected]>
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To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

EXTERNAL
Hello Councilmembers:

AND if legally permissible, support passing an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%.

Allowing a 6% rent increase doubles down on the burden that inflation is currently impacting on residents of Santa Monica. This adds money to the pockets of landlords while hurting renters' ability to live comfortably in Santa Monica, spend that money at local shops/restaurants, and save to hopefully one day buy here. The cost of buying property is already astronomical, let's not add the ability to rent to that category as well.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you. ‐Eric Rosengard, Resident and Renter
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Subject: FW: Please protect renters like me in tomorrow's meeting! From: Jennifer Kashdan <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 3:18 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]> Subject: Please protect renters like me in tomorrow's meeting!

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Dear City Council Members,
I'm a long‐time resident of Santa Monica living in a rent controlled apartment. I have still yet to secure full Time employment since the pandemic and I'm really stressed about this upcoming increase. Along with skyrocketing costs of everything especially gas (I currently have to drive out of Santa Monica just to get gas because the prices are so much more), our 10.25% sales tax with no local necessity exclusions like groceries or drug store items AND now this full 6% increase in September, I don't know how I'm going to manage! I urge you to please protect your citizens like me. Regarding item 11B, please support the Charter Amendment requests of the Rent Control Board AND ALSO ACT NOW to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rentcontrolled tenants by supporting a further Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; AND if legally permissible, support passing an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%.

I am a voting citizen. I was shocked that during the pandemic, Santa Monica City Council didn't do more to help its citizens. Please, i beg you, this will help thousands in need. For those of us who are currently under employed, or the low income this is an emergency. We haven't recovered from the pandemic and this will just make it so much harder to ever get back when combined with record inflation.

I appreciate your consideration of this matter.

Sincerely,
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Jennifer Kashdan
1044 12th Street, 90403
323‐314‐0805
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AND if legally permissible, support passing an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%.

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Santa Monica City Council
c/o City Clerk
1685 Main St., Room 250
Santa Monica, CA 90401
RE: Agenda Item 11-A (“Comprehensive Real Property Transfer Tax Measure”) Dear Hon. Councilmembers,
As you all know, Santa Monica is facing an eviction crisis that is unprecedented in recent memory. Rents are skyrocketing. Gentrification and displacement are eroding our neighborhoods faster than we have ever seen before. In the Pico Neighborhood (where I rent an apartment), many of my neighbors are just barely hanging on. Rent-burdened households in my neighborhood are paying as much as 60-75% of their income on rent.

We desperately need to fund ant-gentrification and anti-displacement programs, and for that reason, I urge you all to vote against placing the proposed “Comprehensive Real Property Transfer Tax Measure” on the ballot, as it will risk blocking the crucial funds that would be generated by the Homelessness Prevention, Affordable Housing, and Schools measure (which has now qualified for the ballot; see Agenda Item 11-D).

The Homelessness Prevention, Affordable Housing, and Schools measure would provide desperately-needed funds that will stop gentrification and keep families in their homes.

Specifically:
 It will provide funding that will ensure that Santa Monica meets its housing production requirements (i.e., the RNHA targets). If the City does not meet its RHNA targets by not producing its required quota of affordable housing, then developers can use new state laws (SB 35; Gov. Code, § 65913.4) to force the City to automatically approve large-scale development projects with no public input. Accordingly, to limit the gentrifying effects of new large-scale developments, and to ensure that the public continues to have a voice in the planning process, we need to support funding sources that will help Santa Monica produce the affordable housing that is required per the City's RHNA targets.  It will provide funds to acquire and rehabilitate existing rental properties, which will help ensure that long-time renters can stay in their homes.
 It will help fund ongoing or emergency rental assistance programs. These programs are essential to ensuring that long-time minority renters in the Pico Neighborhood (and other parts of the City) have the opportunity to stay in their homes and not be forced to move to a far-off suburb where they will be disconnected from family and friends. I have spoken to many community members who have often had to sacrifice meals, healthcare, or other essentials to pay for their rent. These programs will ensure that members of our community do not need to make those difficult choices.

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We need to prioritize programs that will stop gentrification and displacement, as well as programs that ensure renters can stay in their homes. The Homelessness Prevention, Affordable Housing, and Schools measure will help our community achieve these priorities. But by supporting a competing measure with a “poison pill” provision, you will risk blocking funding that will stop gentrification and displacement.

This is a critical time in our City’s history, and we need to do everything in our power to ensure that long-time Santa Monicans are not pushed out of their homes by skyrocketing rents. If we don’t act now, the neighborhoods that we know and love will be lost forever.

Feel free to give me a call if you’d like to discuss further.

Best,
Ellis Raskin
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Santa Monica City Council
c/o City Clerk
1685 Main St., Room 250
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Re: Agenda Item 11-A (“Comprehensive Real Property Transfer Tax Measure”) Dear Hon. Councilmembers,
As a renter in Santa Monica for the last 6 years, I am keenly aware of the challenges of rising rents and effects on the sustainable quality of life for many families. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) platform clearly highlights the importance of equitable housing and education as human rights. The Homelessness Prevention, Affordable Housing, and Schools measure has qualified for the November ballot and represents the intention of UN SDG directives related to safe, clean, affordable housing and possibility education.

Research from Rutgers Law School Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME) highlights the challenges that social housing faces when caught in the crosshairs of overreaching political and private interests. Continuing inequality between Santa Monica communities and households hurts all of Santa Monica and the greater southern California region. The “outlay of taxpayer funds for private benefit should encourage public interest in making weaker markets stronger – i.e., equitable growth.” Yet, many state and local tax policies designed to drive some form of economic fairness and produce equitable growth have fallen short – often stymied by misdirected local policy like the Comprehensive Real Property Transfer Tax Measure.

If economic development is meant to reflect Santa Monica’s interest in promoting housing and economic welfare, then equitable economic development reframes state and local policy on the state’s interest in increasing economic and housing benefit in areas where market need is warranted. Inasmuch as many of these needs manifest in places like Santa Monica which has been challenged by lack of investment and marginalized housing markets, it may be viewed that a “critical public purpose is served when the state and/or the public comes forward to enhance markets when nobody else will.” The ten thousand (10,000) signatures of Santa Monica residents favoring the Homelessness Prevention, Affordable Housing, and Schools measure reflects such a collective policy of equitable economic development, supportive housing affordability, and directed educational possibility.

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because of location, market exclusion, sectors in need of support, or historic discrimination and structural bias.” The Homelessness Prevention, Affordable Housing, and Schools measure provides a higher level of remediation for structural imbalances to housing affordability and increasing funds for schools than does the Comprehensive Real Property Transfer Tax – the financial numbers clearly identify this.

The threats to Santa Monica residents and positive government policy goals are extensive:
“rapidly rising rents, decreased homeownership, higher barriers to affordable housing production goals, renter displacement and less stable communities.” Unfortunately, this way of life continues a long history of economic threats to Seniors, as well as predominantly Black and increasingly Latino neighborhoods in California communities like Santa Monica that are among the most segregated in the country.

Social Housing issues like racial exclusion, predatory lending, foreclosure, and the manipulation of rents exist…Santa Monica’s experience highlights what can happen when local governance and communities ignore equity.

Critical thinking not political interest must drive the council’s decision; concern and respect for positive collective impact in our community should be your value system. The twin pillars of education and affordable housing are both deep and impactful beneficiaries of the Homelessness Prevention, Affordable Housing, and Schools measure. Conversely, if the council supports the Comprehensive Real Property Transfer Tax measure with its “poison pill,” you will be contravening the intent of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - potentially jeopardizing the sustainable quality of life and opportunity for thousands of Santa Monica residents and students alike.

If you believe in UN Sustainable Development Goals as well as value equity and fairness, you must support the Funding for Homelessness Prevention, Affordable Housing, and Schools measure and vote against placing the proposed “Comprehensive Real Property Tax Measure” on the ballot.

Sincerely,
Keith Coleman
Affiliated Faculty/Collaborator
Rutgers Law School
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Subject: 11A - Oppose

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Mayor Himmelrich, Mayor Pro Tem McCowan, and members of City Council, I am writing to request Council oppose Item 11A tonight. This fall we have a real opportunity to move the needle in providing meaningful financial support for construction of affordable housing in our community through the citizens’ initiative supported by over 10,000 Santa Monicans and many community leaders. That ballot measure will enshrine in our Charter our commitment to the pledges we made in our Housing Element to meet our RHNA requirements for deed‐ restricted low income housing.

What alarms me about 11A is the deliberate "poison pill" that was added which would replace the citizens’ initiative with the measure proposed by Councilmember Brock if it gets one vote more, even if majorities support both measures.

This was deliberate, as can be seen in a tweet by Councilmember Brock from May 27: "A just say no campaign may not be successful so I am placing a proposal that actually does good for our city. The highest vote tally wins." There is no doubt we need more funding for the General Fund to restore services. There is no doubt we need more housing in general and that we should be crafting our zoning ordinances to carefully manage greater densification. I believe both will come naturally with the return of “normal” market conditions.

What we don't have line of sight to, however, are the means to provide a significant amount of housing for low income Santa Monicans. The citizens’ initiative does just this for perpetuity ‐ unlike Councilmember Brock's initiative, whose funds could later be used for anything future councils wish. The citizens’ initiative preserves our community's diversity, decreases traffic and pollution because workers can live where they work, and prevents our city from becoming economically gated. 11A threatens our ability to achieve this.

I have heard each of you proclaim from the dias your commitment to creating conditions for more affordable housing. I hope you will live up to that commitment tonight and oppose 11A.

Thank you for your consideration,
Dan Hall
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Council members
I am writing you to strong encourage you to Vote against item 11A on tomorrow’s agenda. Council should not be considering an item that competes with a people born initiative. Also, we need serious and targeted measures to solve the affordable housing crisis.

Feel free to call me if you have any questions.

Derek Devermont
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From: Black Agenda-SM <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:25 AM
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Subject: 11A

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Dear City Council,
We, The Santa Monica Black Agenda beseech council to act now to avert the 6% rent increase.. Our communities have been besieged in a triple pandemic. The pandemic of covid‐19, economic deficit ( due to inflation), and racism. We remind you that as you sit in your seats on the diocese that each of you are the voices for our communities. Your communities are CRYING OUT FOR RELIEF!!! HEAR US NOW!!! You can help us by doing the following;

1. Placing a ballot measure in the November election a charter amendment to lower the general cap to 3%.

2. FREEZE THE RENT until the November election.

3. Reject efforts to undermine the voices of 10,000 Santa Monica residents supporting the citizens tax initiative.

PLEASE SAVE OUR COMMUNITY
Thank you,
The Santa Monica Black Agenda
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From: Rana Kirkland <[email protected]>
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Dear City Council,
I am writing as the Diversity & Inclusion Chair of the Santa Monica Democratic Club in support of the Citizens Initiative, signed by over 10,000 fellow residents. I believe that this initiative allows our community to maintain and foster not only economic diversity, but racial diversity as well.

Our country is now stricken by a dooming financial crisis. Covid has boomed into a public health crisis. And mental health has left many in a state of gloom.

Blacks and Hispanics are also disproportionately adversely effected by inflation at this time. According to a recent analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Black and Hispanic Americans have been grappling with higher inflation rates than the national average.

We need programs, like the Citizens Initiative, to protect our diverse communities with affordable housing opportunities at this particular time of economic crisis.

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Consequently, there is no room to raise rents now.

Please unanimously approve the Citizens Initiative as the most solvent approach to supporting minorities in need in our city.

Regards,
Rana Kirkland

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From: Ted Winterer <[email protected]>
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Subject: Items 11-A and 11-B

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Mayor Himmelrich and Honorable Councilmbers,
We're all aware that market forces and legislative actions by the state, particularly the Costa‐Hawkins Act, have led to a decline in our city's socioeconomic diversity. We also know that an alarming percentage of households are rent‐ burdened or severely rent‐burdened, with rental costs that require a disproportionate allocation of monthly income and leave little for other essential expenses.

While the tax proposed in item 11‐A addresses many of the challenges facing our city, it does nothing to alleviate the housing stresses facing so many of your constituents. There should be funding for rent subsidies for our most vulnerable residents, to keep them from becoming unhoused. And there should be capital raised for affordable housing, whether for rehabs of existing buildings or new construction, to honor the commitments made to residents displaced in the Belmar Triangle and those evicted by the Ells Act.

As for item 11‐B, I urge you in addition to direct staff to prepare a 2022 ballot measure amending the Charter to cap the annual rent increase allowed for controlled units at 3%. So many Santa Monicans are facing financial stress due to the severe inflation plaguing our nation's economy and the 6% rent hike poses an additional burden on tenants in controlled units. Extraordinary times merit extraordinary measures to protect our rent‐burdened, low‐income households.

Regards,
Ted Winterer
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From: Gregory Smith <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:31 AM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

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To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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From: Barb Green <[email protected]>
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To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! From: Diana Alban <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 9:12 AM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

I am a disabled 78 year old Senior living in Santa Monica for many years..and have no other income than my Social Security monthly check. Every month ALL that money is used for basic survival needs. The $59.00 rent increase beginning this August 1st.. would mean my doing without some food and/order my medicine for my C.O.P.D. and other health conditions.

I am sure that other Seniors would also suffer from the upcoming rent increase. Thanking you for your efforts to help us.

Blessings.ટઠડ⭼⭽⭾⭿⮀⮁⮂
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Russell Brantley
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Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! From: Gene Ivery <[email protected]>
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To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

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Hello, I'm a Santa Monica Resident and I fully stand behind SMRR's letter to address the rent increase problem.

Germán
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Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! From: Maia Berens <[email protected]>
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AND if legally permissible, support passing an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

I am a 79 year old widow living on a fixed income. My daughter is the only one taking care financially of her 5 year old daughter. I've lived in SM for 20 years and this increase will leave only rich people and homeless people in SM. It is completely unfair for poor and middle class people to pay for the rent control board's pension when prices in the grocery stores and gas have risen so much for those of us on fixed income. Should we eat dog food? Please be assured that you will not get my vote next time around unless this is fixed.

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Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐
From: Christina Nesi <[email protected]>
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Hi there,
My name Is Christina nesi and I am a Santa Monica resident. I have lived here for the past four years and it is my home, but raising rent 6% threatens that for me.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Christina nesi
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Lydia S Mon, Jul 11, 12:17 PM (22 hours
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Dear Santa Monica City Councilors,
I am writing again, in advance of the city council meeting tomorrow, to urge you to act to protect Santa Monica residents facing unmanageable rent increases this year, and ongoing rising rents and lack of housing.

The City of Oakland recently adopted a new 3% cap for its rent control law, which prevents rents from shooting up. I urge you to place a similar amendment to the City Charter on the November 2022 ballot, and to pass an emergency ordinance prohibiting landlords from imposing more than a 3% increase from September to November, before Santa Monicans have the chance to vote on the proposed new cap. Note that under this current 6% cap, Santa Monicans in rent controlled apartments whose base rent is $1667/ month or more face a monthly increase of $100 or more. This would be steep in a non-rent controlled housing market; it is unconscionable in leases supposedly under rent regulation. Please consider the many families who are already struggling and still feeling the economic effects of the covid-19 pandemic and cannot afford exorbitant increases when there has not been a corresponding increase in minimum wage or in average real income.

Thus I ask you to do the following, regarding the items on the agenda for the Council Meeting of July 12:

Regarding item 11B, please support the Charter Amendment requests of the Rent Control Board AND ALSO ACT NOW to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants by supporting a further Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; AND pass an emergency ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%.

Thank you for your attention,
Lydia Spielberg
Santa Monica 90404
Jezebel corpuz-Todd <[email protected]> Mon, Jul 11, 12:11 PM (23 hours ago)
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needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs, as well as for affordable housing and our public schools.

Regarding item 11B, please support the Charter Amendment requests of the Rent Control Board AND ALSO ACT NOW to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants by supporting a further Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; AND if legally permissible, support passing an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Jezebel Todd
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Amir Chapel <[email protected]> Mon, Jul 11, 11:15 AM (23 hours ago)
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To the Santa Monica City Council Staff:

We can not and should not continue the gentrification process. On top of inflation, people who have lived and are living in Santa Monica for many many years are being pushed out by the in affordability and increase in prices of rent and other costs of living variables. Do we want Santa Monica to be a city where only the wealthy and affluent have the opportunity to thrive or is Santa Monica an inclusive city that welcomes all.

Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will
provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Be well
Amir Chapel
1437 Euclid St #2
Santa Monica CA, 90404
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Best,
Chris Ballesteros
Sabrina H <[email protected]> Mon, Jul 11, 9:26 AM (1 day ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Isabella Calvo <[email protected]> Mon, Jul 11, 9:24 AM (1 day ago)
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Santa Monica City Council Members,
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

Santa Monica residents who are just trying to keep a roof over their heads should not bear the burden of landlords who not only are able to pay off mortgages with renters’ money, but profit massively off the income they derive from renters. Homelessness is a rampant issue across LA County and Santa Monica should not be contributing to the unhoused population by allowing landlords to raise rent by so much that people are pushed out of their homes.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Best,
Isabella Calvo
robert shapiro Mon, Jul 11, 8:31 AM (1 day
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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87 years old and need all the help I can get. Robert shapiro TIFFANY TIFFANY <[email protected]> Sun, Jul 10, 4:53 PM (2 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Dear SMRR, I hope you can stop the 6% rent increase. I am retired and on a fixed income. This increase would make things even more difficult for me to make ends meet. Thank you Sharon Bruce Pierce <[email protected]> Sun, Jul 10, 3:51 PM (2 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Melinda Boulware <[email protected]> Sun, Jul 10, 3:50 PM (2 days ago)
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Dear Santa Monica City Council Members:

My husband and I have lived in Santa Monica for over a decade in the same apartment. I work in Santa Monica, and my husband now works from home. We have a community in our apartment complex. We take care of one another, water each other’s plants, keep an eye on homes while renters are away. We spend our money in this neighborhood. Our laundry, groceries, dining out, all done in Santa Monica. We buy local. We support our community. Support us. I urge your consideration against the 6% proposed rent increase beginning in September.

This increase will not only hurt our family, but also take away our ability to give that money back to local businesses; to continue to foster our unique, diverse community. Rent control helps to keep this community reflective of the people who work and shop here. We should be able to live here too.

With all the financial pressures of the world mounting for working people, and no end in sight, a 6% increase to our rent would be another step toward a tipping point. Please don’t let this happen to us.

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Best,
Melinda Boulware
Ann
Schlorholtz <[email protected]>
Sun, Jul 10, 2:37 PM (2 days
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

I advocating for the elderly and for families trying to keep shelter for themselves and their families. The added increase in rent can cause them to lose their apartments and take the additional monies you are proposing to increase out of their pockets for food and other necessary living expenses.

I am a single person and I faith I will be able to continue to meet my rent requirements, however, that doesn’t mean I am not hard working and approaching retirement age. I did not have to take advantage of the COVID rent offerings, but many did and some who were eligible and needed to likely weren’t able to understand or access it because of age and non-technical abilities. Use what is left in your budget to fund whatever it is you are going to fund from taxpayers and renters from your bucket that is likely still full. Many of you, if not all of you, likely live in a home that has a fixed mortgage and have live off of a salary of good fortune and some from taxpayer dollars. Santa Monica is getting out of control with homelessness and crime.

Many likely want to leave, but where would they go? They don’t have savings that can afford them to up and move. Help make our city safer and maybe people wouldn’t oppose an increase.

Just sayin’…
Sincerely,
Ann Schlorholtz
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Gloria Albert <[email protected]> Sun, Jul 10, 2:30 PM (2 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Gloria Albert
A 40 year Santa Monica resident
Mary Ann
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I implore you, please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Rohit Dhiman <[email protected]> Sun, Jul 10, 11:56 AM (2 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Fern Decena Sun, Jul 10, 11:15 AM (2 days
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City Council members,
I have been a Santa Monica resident since 2009. This is one of the best cities in LA County, in my opinion. However, it's also one of the pricier cities in LA County. Regardless, I appreciate the fact that I can walk or bike within this city and not have to drive often, if I don't want to. Public transportation is great here, as well, and very accessible. The small-town, community feel that Santa Monica has, combined with being "big city-like" is another thing I love about this city.

In 2020 when COVID first hit, like many, my work hours were cut significantly. I was lucky, though, to still be able to afford rent. In 2021, my work hours are back to normal, BUT, I'm STILL trying to catch up on financial issues due to COVID. I don't want to have to move out of Santa Monica if the rent increase of 6% is permitted.

Thank you,
Fern Decena
Jess Baclesse <[email protected]> Sun, Jul 10, 10:25 AM (2 days ago)
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Dear Santa Monica City Council,
I fully support the measures listed below created by the Santa Monican's for Renter's Rights. I live in a rent control building and am shocked that we will have to pay $140 + additional fees every month when my landlord is doing zero to maintain or improve the building. There are zero legal expectations for him to provide an increase in livability or care but every year I'm expected to pay more due to costs. I am still working but have several elderly neighbors who live on fixed income and increasing their rent by this much is not only unfair but predatory given the rising costs of food and gas.

Pass an ordinance that caps rent increase and put on the ballot a measure to lower the General Adjustment Cap to 3%. HELP KEEP SANTA MONICA DIVERSE - ensuring accessible housing is the only way that is possible.

Thank you,
Jessica Baclesse
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Jerry Botham <[email protected]> Sun, Jul 10, 10:09 AM (2 days ago)
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My name is Jerry Botham 73 years old I’ve called Santa Monica my home for most of my life since 1968. My whole family has lived here and most have died here. In 1976 I had ulcerative colitis which lead to a major surgery That lead to me wearing a ill Ostomy bag. I qualified for the CITA program and went to work for the City of Santa Monica. Over the years I’ve attended SMCC supported the fire works show and PAL though a self built plumbing company with City Lic , State Contractor Lic. in my early years I ran the plumbing division for the City of Santa Monica. One of the first founding member of the SantaMonica city employees federal credit Union. I have been serving this city for years my plumbing and heating services and also helping the seniors. Now I’m a senior in October 2021 my 6 month stay in the hospital recovering from a full knee replacement and jaundice that lead to temporary blindness and blood clots in my lungs which lead to two stints one in my bile duct and one in my pancreatic duct after some healing the gallbladder was surgically removed. Surgery will be tomorrow July 11th 2022 two remove the two stints. Thank God we have UCLA hospital close by here in Santa Monica. COVID limited my Bussiness and gas prices on my truck. Then the health situation and now my rent increase. Please help us all. I’ve always tried to improve the health and welfare of this city I’m proud to call home… The City of Santa Monica Thank you for reading and hearing me
Jerry Botham
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Kuipers, Catherine <[email protected]> Sun, Jul 10, 9:03 AM (2 days ago)
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We are in the midst of a deadly pandemic, the inflation rates are at an historic high, and an economic down turn. You pay lip service to the rising homelessness and the lack of affordable housing. A six percent rise in rents will only contribute to these very serious social problems.

Thank you,
Catherine Kuipers
Jude Merkel <[email protected]> Sun, Jul 10, 12:08 AM (2 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Kelly Boulware <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 9:40 PM (3 days ago)
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Hello to everyone.

Thank you. - Mr. K.A. Boulware
Alexandra Hunt <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 9:19 PM (3 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Elea Oberon <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 7:42 PM (3 days ago)
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Dear City Council Members,
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Item 11.A
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Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

This increase is a burden to those who can the least afford it, and is unfair to both tenants and Landlords. If someone pays $5000 a month rent they their increase is only 3%, it doesn’t make sense… those who can afford it the most pay the least!
Especially coming out of this very difficult time, in which not all of us were able to get the subsidies… Please, protect us. I have a senior living with me for whom I am responsible financially. These are already tight quarters. And the 3% increase has already been a burden.

With my best regards,
Nathalie Bartling
Mandie Green <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 5:41 PM (3 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Phil, Kristen, Oscar, Sue, Kristen, Lana, and Christine, I currently reside in Santa Monica.The rent increase of 6% will be a financial hardship for me. I just found out about it after I signed a year lease. This is a horrible thing to do to unsuspecting renters like myself. Had I had more notice I could have made alternate plans, but now I am stuck. I’ve lived in Santa Monica for years and never had an increase like this. This is outrageous. After the loss of income I’ve already experienced from the pandemic, this is just furthering my financial difficulties. This is just making life harder than it needs to be. Please don’t allow this to happen.

Please act now!
Thank you,
Mandie Green
Lonnie Palmer <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 5:04 PM (3 days ago)
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desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

As a low income resident of Santa Monica I find it very tough to pay rent and still provide financially for my family especially over the past 2 years as we have been through the COVID influenced economic shut down.

My wife and I have suffered the deaths of 5 loved ones, we have been layed off and in some cases we have been hit with a wage deduction. Throughout all of this we are barely holding on as the cost of living has escalated to the point where traveling to and from work has impacted us even more.

The price of gas has skyrocketed creating more of a financial burden. The twice daily commute to and from work has already made it tough . We as low income tax paying citizens on behalf of all of low income household and our low income neighbors we need rent relief not rent increase.

Please help us.

Thank you,
Lonnie C. Palmer
Hannah Murphy <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 4:04 PM (3 days ago)
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My fiancé grew up in Santa Monica and, aside from college, has lived here all his life. We have loved living here and we hope to be able to stay. Getting our most recent rent increase in the mail, even at the cap of $140 a month, has made us question whether or not we can. Despite both of us holding full time jobs before Covid, this pandemic has not stopped affecting our livelihoods as hours have been cut and days have been more inconsistent. We both are more than willing to hustle, each of us hold more than one job to make ends meet, but compounding all of that with the staggering inflation rates and gas prices, that extra $140 a month is a burden -- and I consider myself one of the luckier, more affluent residents of Santa Monica.

Hannah Murphy
Barry Dresner <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 3:19 PM (3 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you,
Barry Dresner
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KJ Knies <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 2:50 PM (3 days ago)
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Hello,
Santa Monica is a community driven by all types of people. I worry that this rent increase will continue to force out those less fortunate, leaving Santa Monica as a home to only the wealthy and short-term vacationers, ruining the sense of community and place to many that call Santa Monica home.

Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you.

SUSAN SHAPIRO <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 2:38 PM (3 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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I am in such shock at this 6% rate increase!!! With the inflation situation, rising prices for everything plus being on a fixed income, this rent increase would be absolutely disastrous for me! How can you do this now… when we’re experiencing such extreme precariousness and desperation.

Of course I understand the need for an annual rent control increase, but this is frightening. I implore you to consider and take the actions above please please please!!! Thank you so much.

Regards, Susie S (a senior citizen)
Susan Ansman <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 1:36 PM (3 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%.

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you.

Mary Glicksman <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 1:29 PM (3 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Lisa Burnette <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 1:20 PM (3 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you.

Lisa Burnette & Dana Shaw
Gloria Rose Sat, Jul 9, 12:52 PM (3 days
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

It is so stressful worrying about such a substantial rent increase. In my situation I’ve been living in my apartment for 16 plus years. There have been no upgrades to my apartment in all these years. Including painting, carpet upgrade, kitchen cabinet repairs. Yet, I will be paying a substantial increase in my rent. I simply can not afford it. I could be facing not having a place to live. Please help me!
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Denise Stewart Sat, Jul 9, 12:50 PM (3 days
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Dear City Council Members.

I'm getting close to retirement age, figure I will need to work way past retirement age to cover the increasing cost of living, pay market rate due to being forced to move from my previous rent controlled apartment, but this building is also under rent control. I received your annual rent increase notice and felt sick. I don't see how paying $141 more a month is reasonable or more important, affordable. I don't see how I'll still be able to afford to live in Santa Monica if Item 11.A
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mandated increases continue to be raised as high as those proposed. I'm not trying to sell you a sob story, but talk about the reality of the situation.

Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors. Below are some suggestions as to what might be done.

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%.

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%.

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

Please protect Santa Monica residents. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Denise E. Stewart
Adrian Roup Sat, Jul 9, 12:32 PM (3 days
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Help Protect Renters who cannot afford rent increases Against Unreasonable Rents that may force them out of their homes.

Amy Spiegel <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 12:09 PM (3 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Bernadette Scully <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 11:28 AM (3 days ago)
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I Urge City Councilmembers to place on Nov ballot: a Charter Amendmt to lower Gen'l Adjstmt cap to 3%. ...Bernadette Scully 1-)310) 393-7975
Daniella Farrelly <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 11:19 AM (3 days ago)
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To Whom it may Concern,
I am a freelance worker in the television industry. Being a freelancer is difficult enough making ends meet during the months of ‘famine’ as we refer to it. Covid hit my industry extremely hard and work is currently at the lowest I’ve seen it in my entire career of 10 years. To raise rents by 6% would be catastrophic for somebody in my position. Please reconsider.

Thank you for your time.

Daniella Farrelly
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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In 2021 we lost our health insurance and a significant source of income. Please help. Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

John Poston <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 10:11 AM (3 days ago)
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Hello,
I’m a current resident of Santa Monica, and a 6% rent hike is too dang high! Can you please step in to help us out? I know for myself I did not get a 6% increase this year as most people did not. The average cost of living increase is just 2%, and this is lucky and never guaranteed. In 2023 with companies pulling back even more, there will likely be NO cost of living increase. So please listen to the people who have voted we are 27,000 households strong out of 93,000 population, a very large part of your constituents. Please listen to us and help us!
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Best,
John
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Richard Tahvildaran Jesswein <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 9:54 AM (3 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the Item 11.A
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Celia Schwartzman <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 8:59 AM (3 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you. --
Celia C. Schwartzman
Eric Schwartzman <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 8:58 AM (3 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Courtney Jenkins <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 8:56 AM (3 days ago)
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Dear Council Members,
I am a Santa Monica resident and have been for the last 7.5 years. I moved from NYC where rents are obscene and was able to find a nice 1 bedroom for myself at a reasonable price. Since living here that reality has changed drastically.

The rents are so unreasonable high unless you make 300+ a year you cannot afford to live here. Santa Monica should not only be for the extremely wealthy.

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I am currently in a rent controlled apartment, 1 bedroom as a single mom with my son. I would love to be able to give us the space we need as a family but I am locked into the apartment because of the extreme rents here. We stay so that my son has the ability to go to the schools here and receive a good education.

With rising inflation and excess prices on everything in our daily lives we are struggling to stay afloat. If our rent was to increase by 6% it would crush us and MANY other families.

Here are the steps myself and others are asking you to take as our representatives:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%;

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you,
Courtney
Courtney Jenkins
Producer & Music Supervisor
www.courtneyjenkins.com/
310-795-9188
3201 Colorado Ave Apt D
Santa Monica, CA
90404
Carole Adams Kealoha <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 6:38 AM (3 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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zebra zebra <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 9, 4:37 AM (3 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3.

Lorraine Zecca
1027 9th Street unit 1
Santa Monica, CA 90403
Susan Einbinder <[email protected]>
Fri, Jul 8, 10:02 PM (4 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Since 2005, I have lived in a modest apartment in Santa Monica covered by rentstabilization. While I am lucky that my landlord is wonderful, the annual increases have raised my rent substantially over this period. I am a tenured professor at CSUDH and earn what would be considered a decent salary in other parts of the country, but my salary increases lag far behind my annual rent increases. In fact, if this 6 percent increase is permitted, just one year's rent increase will consume 1.5 times my raises over the last 3 years.

Thank you for addressing this vital issue - keep Santa Monica affordable for renters, please.

Sincerely,
Susan D. Einbinder, MS, PhD
Yahoo <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 8:06 PM (4 days ago)
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As a lifelong resident of this city, who is on the verge of being pushed out by the rising rents in this city I have always called home, please stop this insane rent increase! People who have lived here for generations are being pushed out by landlords and developers and it must stop now!
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Marcia Beaird <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 4:32 PM (4 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Cindy Lee <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 4:21 PM (4 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Dr. Council Member,
I am a resident in Santa Monica and currently have my home office here too.

Please advocate for rent control and avert the 6% rent increase to all rent controlled tenants.

We are proud
Cindy Lee <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 4:20 PM (4 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Dr. Council Member,
I am a resident in Santa Monica and have currently have my home office here too.

Please advocate for rent control and avert the 6% rent increase to all rent controlled tenants.

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We are proud Santa Monica residents and do not want to be priced out.

Thank you!
Cindy
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to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], christine.p [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you. [email protected] Fri, Jul 8, 3:26 PM
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to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rentcontrolled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Like many of us, I am on a fixed income. I’ve stayed in this apt. specifically because it is rent controlled. The 6% increase means I have to leave to find smaller and shared accommodations.

I need you to keep the 3% increase for all rent controlled apts.

Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on Item 11.A
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the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Adrian Maher <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 2:21 PM (4 days ago)
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Dear Santa Monica City Council Members:

I am a low-income, senior citizen tenant who has lived in the same rent-controlled unit in Santa Monica for nearly 30 years. I was absolutely stunned to get a notice in the mail that rentcontrolled landlords can raise my rent by 6% as of September 1, 2022. This increase will be incredibly burdensome to me and I'm sure many others in my position. I urge you to use all your power to do the following:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

I would be so appreciative for your help. This latest rent increase is a life-changer and will cause significant challenges for me going into the future.

Sincerely,
Adrian Maher
Cell: 310-922-3080
MaryCatherine Finney <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 2:18 PM (4 days ago)
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Dear Council members,
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the Item 11.A
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November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

I have lived in Santa Monica for over 10 years and have a Santa Monica business license for my sole proprietorship but I would be unable to continue to live in this city without the current rent control measures. This increase threatens the tenancy of so many Santa Monicans and will only add fuel to the crazy rent hikes as people are forced to move out of the city and landlords can name their price. Many of us residents and business owners are still trying to recover from the impacts of COVID, historically high gas prices and cost of living increases. I paid my rent ontime every month throughout the pandemic despite loss of business and now to have the rent raised even further feels like an unfair burden.

Thank you for your consideration,
Mary Catherine Finney
Lynn Balsamo <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 1:57 PM (4 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

I would just add that one reason this is important is that the State of California inflation adjustments just finalized (and likely similar measures in the future) are unfairly less adequate for single adults who do not have children than for adults (single or otherwise) who do have children.

Thank you again.

Marianna Wolfe <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 12:41 PM (4 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide Item 11.A
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desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Cindy Lee <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 12:36 PM (4 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Dr. Council Member,
I am a resident in Santa Monica and have currently have my home office here too.

Please advocate for rent control and avert the 6% rent increase to all rent controlled tenants.

We are proud Santa Monica residents and do not want to be priced out.

Thank you!
Cindy
madeline heller <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 11:49 AM (4 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Do something City Council before it’s too late!!
Madeline D.Heller
511 Montana Ave.

Santa Monica, CA 90403
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Rhea Rever <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 11:28 AM (4 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Rhea Rever
John Barone <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 11:10 AM (4 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Seat Of My Pants <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 11:05 AM (4 days ago)
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Dear City Council Members,
I’ve been a renter and resident of Santa Monica for over 20 years. I also own a home in Palm Desert because I couldn’t afford to buy in my beloved community. As a well-educated and wellcompensated professional even I am feeling the financial strain of these extraordinary times. The hardship is real and I am very concerned for those who are less able to weather this financial storm.

Over the years, I have seen many changes to our wonderful City. Some wonderful and some well not so wonderful. I shudder to think what our community might look like if we lose our diverse population. With inflation raging and families and individuals struggling just to survive, a rate increase of 6% seems a veritable insult to the already injured. And let’s be honest here with stagflation all but inevitable, these kinds of rate increases will be the norm for the foreseeable future.

As our elected officials, we’ve entrusted you to be the advocates for our wonderful community. We have charged you to serve ALL those who have chosen to make the City of Santa Monica their home. Now is not the time to abandon your constituents when they need you you most. I trust you will do the right thing.

Sincerely,
Jennifer Rima
Santa Monica Resident
Carol Rosenthal <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 10:53 AM (4 days ago)
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This is unconscionable. A 6% increase. Nowhere else in the city is that happening. Many of us moved to Santa Monica for its rent control and we pour money into our local businesses. Please do not let this happen.

Carol Rosenthal
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Rael <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 10:40 AM (4 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Jessica Dollin <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 10:36 AM (4 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Hi there,
I have lived in Santa Monica for two years and I love it, but I cannot afford to pay any more in rent. As inflation and my cost of living increases, my paycheck has remained unchanged. I am trying to save as much money as possible, while also supporting my sick father so I do not have any extra room in my budget.

Thank you for your time and consideration!
Best,
Jessica
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Jeff Cummings <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 10:29 AM (4 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Jeff Cummings
310-428-1789
Robert Bedell <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 10:21 AM (4 days ago)
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Hello,
I’ve been a resident of Santa Monica for 26 years. I’ve seen the city change from a beach front community into a bigger city. I’ve met the different business owners and landlords in the city.

Most of the landlords have had the property(ies) in their families for generations. The buildings are more than paid for and now, other than taxes, they don’t have to pay anything. Most of the renters don’t have family money. A lot live paycheck to paycheck, especially in the past few years.

If we weren’t coming out of a pandemic and in a recession, I would say, ok, don’t like the increase, but I think people can handle it. Not this year. Not considering what we came through and what we are still facing. I hope that resonates with you.

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Rob Bedelll
1428 11th ST. #1
[email protected]
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Matt Parker <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 10:04 AM (4 days ago)
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Dear Santa Monica City Council Members,
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Additionally, it’s important to note that all eyes are on the council. The response to economic challenges, general safety, and housing has been abysmal at best. At the same time, the volume of developers building new properties with a price point that is reserved for a small minority does not align with the progressive and diverse mission for what we, the constituents of Santa Monica have for a long time held as our values. I sincerely hope that the council steps up to bat for those of us who call Santa Monica home.

Please support the people first, and in doing so, we will support you, our elected representatives.

Thank You,
Matt Parker
Molly Dworsky <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 10:01 AM (4 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

I am a young freshly working individual in a economy that doesn’t allow me a huge salary. If this 6% increase is executed I will be unable to afford my current rental situation leaving roomates in a runt as well. I spent a multitude of my paycheck on the gas increase, the grocery increase and more.

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Sam Franklin <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 9:38 AM (4 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Sam Franklin
1018 Euclid St.

Apt. 100
Santa Monica, CA 90403
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bc moss <[email protected]>
6% rent increase??
Fri, Jul 8, 9:11 AM (4 days
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Seriously, this is ridiculous!
brian moss
Ladhani, Kameel <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 9:09 AM (4 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

For God Sake, please AVERT THE 6% rent increase, otherwise I’ll be on the street. I depend only on the Social Security and can’t afford 6% increase in my rent.

Ladhani, Kameel <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 9:02 AM (4 days ago)
to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Hi, good morning.

Hope everything would be fine with you.

I sadly inform you that it was very shocking and heart breaking when I received a letter from the Santa Monica City Council, regarding raising the rent by a whopping 6% as of September’2022 and believe me, swear to my God, since then I have been thinking, how I am going to pay an extra 140 Dollars a month. That is horrible. I been living in Santa Monica since 1995 and its been almost 27 years and am already paying to much rent though living in a Rent Control Building.

I am sorry to say that believe me I can’t afford it and am depending on my Social Security and been through lots of medical problem and I am 68 years old.

I can’t move to any slum and am unable to work at this age.

Therefore I request your kind honor to please consider this and for God sake, please do not throw an old lady out of my apartment.

GOD BLESS YOU.

JP FT <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 8:39 AM (4 days ago)
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I am a 65 yr old who has disability and lived in my unit since 1986, my SSI does not cover my existing rent and 6% increase will make life extremely difficult financially so Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass Item 11.A
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an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Melissa Merrill <[email protected]> Thu, Jul 7, 1:26 PM (5 days ago)
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As a current resident, I'm writing to ask that you take action to protect renters. I've been living (and renting) in Santa Monica for 8 years now and care about this community. Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you,
Melissa
Susan Suntree <[email protected]> Thu, Jul 7, 12:22 PM (5 days ago)
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Dear Members of the City Council: As a long time Santa Monica renter and a retiree living on a fixed income, it is essential that this rent increase be lowered! Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Susan Suntree
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Kathy Christopherson <[email protected]> Thu, Jul 7, 7:37 AM (5 days ago)
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Dear Council Members,
I’ll keep it short, as I know you are receiving a lot of panicked messages. Please add my own concern to
that pile.

Many of us lost a great deal of work and income during the pandemic and were never able to fully recover. I, for
one, am still trying to get back on my feet. An interruption in my business can be the death of a career, but I’m
fighting it tooth and nail. However, setbacks like this unanticipated one (for me, unanticipated b/c I am not privy to all the little planned disasters the rent control board has managed to ignore) can really seal the nail in the coffin.

If there is anything that can be done, please give Santa Monica residents a fighting chance. 3% caps can feel significant as is, but 6% is beyond discouraging. Just a couple years ago, my landlords claimed my MAR was significantly higher than it had been for the 2 decades I was living here. The Rent Control board complied, and claimed they couldn’t show me proof of when it had been increased b/c the “microfiche was missing.” So I was forced to endure a significant rent increase after having made financial decisions based on my circumstances.

This is a double whammy for me. And I’m wholly aware it’s even worse for others.

Please consider us before we get those dreaded 30 day notices.

Thank you,
Kathy Christopherson
SM resident for 25+ years
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Marilyn Alexander Wed, Jul 6, 4:31 PM (6 days
ago)
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As a senior on a fixed income, my rent is about 80% of my Social Security check. I am creative and find a way to stretch my dollars, but
A 6% rent increase would be way over my budget.

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Marilyn Alexander
David Boyer <[email protected]> Wed, Jul 6, 12:27 PM (6 days ago)
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Hello,
My name is David Boyer, and I am a postdoctoral scholar at UCLA researching Alzheimer's Disease. I have been able to live in beautiful Santa Monica for the last 4 years in large part due to rent control. With crazy inflation causing prices to surge, but wages not keeping up, the cost of living is skyrocketing. Many property owners were likely able to lock in very low rates for their mortgages over the past few years, while renters and new home buyers are currently subjected to rising rents and mortgage rates. Keeping rent controlled increases to 3% will really help to make sure the rich do not get an unfair advantage, and help prevent Santa Monica from becoming a gated "Beverly Hills by the Sea." Santa Monica should be open to folks from all parts of the economic spectrum who can bring their diverse life history to enrich the culture of Santa Monica.

Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you. sitnpretti <[email protected]> Wed, Jul 6, 10:47 AM (6 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the Item 11.A
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Megan Cassidy <[email protected]> Wed, Jul 6, 9:42 AM (6 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Aidan Ostrogovich <[email protected]> Wed, Jul 6, 9:23 AM (6 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you,
Aidan Ostrogovich
Maralee Grant Wed, Jul 6, 8:18 AM (6 days
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November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Please consider us who take care of our apartments Do not ask for anything new Do our own repair work.

I try very hard to save money for my landlord
I pick up trash
I buy plants for building
I water plants
I make sure we are safe from intruders
Maralee Grantham renter
937 3rd street apt 302
Santa Monica, CA 90403
[email protected] Wed, Jul 6, 4:29 AM (6 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Lauren H <[email protected]>
Wed, Jul 6, 12:02 AM (6 days
ago)
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Done thku!
LRachelle H <[email protected]> Wed, Jul 6, 12:02 AM (6 days ago)
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Dear City Councilmembers,
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Like Oakland has done for their renters community, please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rentburdened lower-income neighbors.

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

We urge you, please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica, affordable living (while working full time in a local hospital to support our people during their hardest moments...while grappling with inflation like everyone else, and an inability to buy a home as an alternative at this time while still paying off massive student loans).

Thank you, and May God Bless each of you and your families, for your efforts and care for our city.

Sincerely,
Lauren Halliburton
S Hermes Tue, Jul 5, 11:42 PM (7 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you.

Richard Vye Tue, Jul 5, 10:37 PM (7 days
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3.

Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.
naomi troeger <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 10:05 PM (7 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Tenants are already struggling — paying all the increasing ‘add-ons’ and measures — added to the yearly increase.

I am a long-time resident — and a senior citizen at this time — on a fixed income.

The financial burden is great— especially in this present economic environment. The tenants are suffering much more than the landlords — and investors.

I end up paying for many of the repairs and all upgrades in my apartment — in this 50 year old building. Rather than struggle with management
In fact, I’ve had to deal with SM Rent Control and the SM City Attorney’s Office numerous times in recent years — just to maintain my rights.

As well, the $50 extra (in addition to yearly) increase — established (1990’s) to help landlord cover Northridge Earthquake expenses — still holds.

At the time, we had been informed it would remain part of tenants rent for 10 years — but it has always remained.

As this money has remained incorporated into the rent — we also pay yearly rent increases on this additional $50 — from so long ago.

Thank you for your attention to this serious matter.

Naomi Troeger
naomi troeger <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 9:36 PM (7 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Amanda Williams <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 9:04 PM (7 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Ann Tue, Jul 5, 8:41 PM (7 days
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Francesca Bishop <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 8:07 PM (7 days ago)
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Dear City Council Members,
My daughter and I have been financially struggling since the Covid-19 pandemic began. My arthritis has become crippling making me unable to work . My daughter supports us on the wage of a waitress. Please, we cannot remain in our apartment if our rent goes up by 6%.

Thank you,
Francesca Bishop
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Bryce Brecheisen <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 6:38 PM (7 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Sherna Berger-Gluck <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 6:34 PM (7 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the Item 11.A
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Carr Thompson <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 6:22 PM (7 days ago)
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Hi City Council:

Donald Thompson
Tognozzi, Elissa <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 6:16 PM (7 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, Keep in mind that many increases for workers are below 6% per year. I know this is true in my case and I work in a very large institution.

I am not asking for me. I can afford the rent increase. However, I volunteer for meals on wheels and see firsthand the desperate circumstances of many people in Santa Monica – and these are the ones who still have housing.

Therefore, I concur with others who ask to provide support to our already struggling rentburdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Tlg lzzk
Elissa
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Eddie Guerboian <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 5:44 PM (7 days ago)
to phil.brock, Gleam, oscar.delatorre, Sue, Kirstin, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Eddie Guerboian
Evelyn Guerboian <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 5:43 PM (7 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Evelyn Guerboian
S H <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 5:29 PM (7 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you.

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Landlords already received multiple bailouts and maybe some low income and SB owners received loans and deferrals but most people dod not qualify for any benefits. This 6% increase is immoral, unjust and unjustified. Our expenses increased too, more than 6% but we have no recourse. Landlords should accept whatever claims they have on increases as business costs and risks to owning. I live in a unit where everything is over 15+ old and landlord repeatedly refuses to replace them (windows, stove, faucet knobs, yes even little things like this, no wheelchair access when we have a tenant who can only move in one and is restricted to the unit because of stairs, I can go on.)
The whole point of having rent control is to prevent landlords from overcharging. 6% increase allows them just that.

Julie Desnick Tue, Jul 5, 4:59 PM (7 days
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Baron Greystone <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 4:29 PM (7 days ago)
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To my City Councilmembers:

Our family has lived in Santa Monica for fifteen years and we're struggling to keep up with expenses. We're worse off than we were when we first arrived here. Rent is of course the greatest financial burden.

And we simply can't afford to move.

We need you to head off the impending 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to those of us who are already rent-burdened and struggling.

First, place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%. Secondly, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%. And finally, halt all efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

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I ask that you do all you can to protect Santa Monica residents, as per the mandate we have given you. Thank you.
e2w2e <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 4:13 PM (7 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.
[email protected] Tue, Jul 5, 3:18 PM (7 days
ago)
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Hi City Councilpeople,
It's within your power to make a substantive gesture now supporting the immediate interests of the vast majority Santa Monica renters, unless the City Attorney says its illegal.

Now the boilerplate you've already seen from so many other voters like me:
"Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens' transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. " & now for my personal coda:

We active voters will remember what you're willing to do for us now, come November election-time & thereafter.

Thanks,
William Handelsman
2250 30th St. Apt 5
Santa Monica, CA 90405
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Helen Malmgren <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 3:16 PM (7 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Aimée Flaherty <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 3:15 PM (7 days ago)
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Hi Santa Monica City Council,
I am writing in response to the 6% rent increase which is being implemented this year to rentcontrol apartments and how disappointed I am in your decision to allow this. We are coming out of a pandemic that has had a devastating impact on people financially, we have an outrageous housing problem, homelessness is a huge issue, inflation is out of control, just to fill a tank of gas to get to work is creating an extreme burden on people, and we’re potentially facing a looming recession.

Many of the people who live in this city cannot afford the outrageous rents that our city has seen over the past few years, especially since we’ve been rebranded Silicon Beach, and rent control has been the saving grace for many.

I have lived in Downtown Santa Monica for 19 years, I am a independant documentary film maker who has been able to continue telling important stories because I’ve been able to afford to live in my apartment. Around me are numerous elderly people who are on fixed incomes. One of my neighbor has lived in her apartment for 35 years, she’s a social worker, she doesn’t make very much money. Another one of my neighbors owns a non-profit that helps people with disabilities, he does an immense amount of good, but doesn’t bring in a lot of money, just enough to live comfortably in the apartment he has lived in for 27 years. These are just a very few examples of the people around me. When you increase the rent that much, it impacts everyone and will cause financial burdens. These are people who have lived here for years and are part of the fabric of what makes Santa Monica, Santa Monica. I don’t want to see people having to leave because they can no longer afford to live in the city they love.

Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1.

Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica Item 11.A
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residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

I don’t want to see these people pushed out, I don’t want to see our city become a playground just for the wealthy, which is exactly what it feel like is happening. My rent is looking at going up at least $1200 a year, which may not seem like a lot for some, but for me that’s a lot. We voted you in because you promised to represent us, and right now this 6% increase feel like a very bad and irresponsible decision to have been made.

Thank you for reading.

Aimée Flaherty
[email protected] <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 2:43 PM (7 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Vanessa Ballesteros <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 2:34 PM (7 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Vickie Joy <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 2:23 PM (7 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you. [email protected] <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 2:22 PM (7 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Ali Bilal <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 2:14 PM (7 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Lynda J <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 2:04 PM (7 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the Item 11.A
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DEAR SIRS
I LIVE Off MY S/S INCOME WHICH COVERS ONLY MY RENT
& 100.00 FOR FOOD FOR THE MONTH

PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT MAKE MY LIVING A WORSE SITUATION THAN IT ALREADY IS

I BEG U

THERE HAS TO BE ANOTHER WAY THAN PENALIZING US ELDERLY TENANTS IM 80 IN DEC PLEASE CONSIDER THIS HEART RENDERING % HIKE AS DETRIMENTAL

TO OUR EXISTANCE

SINCERELY
LJ
Vivien Shane Tue, Jul 5, 1:47 PM (7 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

SD Tue, Jul 5, 1:09 PM (7 days
ago)
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From: userfriendly1 <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2022 12:59 PM
ToSubject: Im retired female live alone in my rent controlled home since 1994 I voted you in to Protect me against Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!
Im low income cannot afford 6% rent increase.
act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

S. Dean
Santa Monica
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Im retired female live alone in my rent controlled home since 1994 I voted you in to Protect me against Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!
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Im low income cannot afford 6% rent increase.
act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

S. Dean
Santa Monica
Bijan Khajebag Tue, Jul 5, 12:55 PM (7 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

While at it please consider the following: rent control apartment buildings are rent controlled due to people living in them having a low income which simply justifies the arguments in No rent increases, meanwhile many of buildings are paid off where the owners do not owe any mortgage or payments and they have been making money of their buildings for years and doing so as we speak, the 6% suggested rent increase would not hurt their living standard but the amount will hurt the tenants in rent controlled apartments where in such economic time they’re in need of any penny they could save and have.

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Caroline M. Torosis Tue, Jul 5, 12:50 PM (7 days
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Dear Honorable Councilmembers,
I write to you as an elected rent control board member and a citizen concerned about the diversity and stability of our community. Over 70% of Santa Monicans are renters. This year, our rent controlled tenants are facing an untenable 6% increase in their rents. Rent control exists to allow folks the certainty of aging in place, investing in our community and ensuring that Santa Monica does not become economically gated to many of us. Last month, the City of Oakland, facing a similar rent hike, voted to impose a maximum 3% cap amid record inflation. https://www.courthousenews.com/oakland-city-leaders-vote-to-prevent-highest-rentincrease-in-decades/ Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors by doing the following:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and

3. Please place on the November ballot the Rent Control Board’s proposed good governance ballot initiatives including a citywide rent registry to ensure we prevent short term rentals from overtaking our naturally occurring housing.

Please do the bold, courageous, and right thing by your electorate to protect the fabric of our community. By capping this astronomical rent hike, you can protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Caroline
userfriendly1 Tue, Jul 5, 12:41 PM (7 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Stephanie Rasband <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 12:25 PM (7 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Stephanie Rasband, Senior Citizen and Rent Controlled apartment tenant. [email protected] Tue, Jul 5, 12:23 PM (7 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Elizabeth du Fresne <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 12:20 PM (7 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you. Elizabeth du Fresne. 56 Village Parkway. Santa Monica. 90405
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Clifford Burton Tue, Jul 5, 12:16 PM (7 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you!!
Smiles,
Clifford Burton
47-Year Sta. Monica Tenant
Gonzalo Campos <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 8:38 AM (7 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Gonzalo Campos <[email protected]> Tue, Jul 5, 8:33 AM (7 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Andrea Hackin Tue, Jul 5, 8:00 AM (7 days
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Please Support our community! 6% increase is untenable! Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you. Avoid increasing the homelessness problem! Please help,
Andrea Hackin
Nancy Garber <[email protected]> Mon, Jul 4, 2:35 PM (8 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Mike Ghazi <[email protected]> Mon, Jul 4, 1:02 PM (8 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Forrest Aaron Mon, Jul 4, 11:55 AM (8 days
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To whom it may concern,
Happy 4th of July!
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you,
Forrest Moss-Vreeland
Sara Gurkin <[email protected]> Sun, Jul 3, 2:15 PM (9 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you. mahvash behbahani <[email protected]> Sun, Jul 3, 1:38 PM (9 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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arezo yousefi <[email protected]> Sun, Jul 3, 10:21 AM (9 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Avedis AVO Guerboian <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 2, 9:37 PM (10 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Lisa <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 2, 9:16 PM (10 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Doug Hedlund <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 2, 4:34 PM (10 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Thomas Shadle <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 2, 2:59 PM (10 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%;
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Thank you.

Tom & Kathy Shadle
1045 Ocean Ave Apt 3
Santa Monica, CA 90403
Alles Yves <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 2, 12:08 PM (10 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Sincerely
Alles Yves.

Brigitte Knerr <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 2, 11:48 AM (10 days ago)
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Hi, I’m reaching out to beg you not to allow 6% rent increases.

My husband and I are new parents of a 10 month old and are dipping into savings every month to stay above water as it is. I work as a mobile notary and while gas prices have increased drastically, the fees in my industry have stayed the same. Our son is newly being introduced to solid foods and with inflation everywhere, the increased cost of food for another mouth is also adding to our struggles. We love Santa Monica so much and hope to stay here to raise our son in a diverse environment with exceptional public schools and a community of friends to raise our son around since our families both live in Northern California.

Please, please, please take our story into consideration and vote with working families in mind.

Warmly,
Brigitte Knerr
Mobile Notary Public
(707) 685-2701
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Nic Knerr <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 2, 11:28 AM (10 days ago)
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I am a new father of a 10 month old. The economy is tanking and gas prices are through the roof. My wife and I work part time as we can not yet afford daycare.

One of my neighbors in our complex was recently diagnosed with cancer and they are struggling to pay their hospital bills.

To increase all of our rent right now would completely unreasonable. The majority of Americans are struggling and raising rents would be completely tone-deaf.

Tatiana A <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 2, 11:20 AM (10 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Jeremy Poindexter <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 2, 9:24 AM (10 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Our budget is already right due to COVID and a large increase like this may force us to move out of Santa Monica - our home for over 10 years.

Sincerely,
Jeremy Poindexter
Aynbinder, Boris <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 2, 9:18 AM (10 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Irena Moon <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 2, 8:45 AM (10 days ago)
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Hello.

As a Santa Monica resident for the last 25 years, seeing this 6% rent increase came as a HUGE SHOCK. I am currently on unemployment and with every single item/service going up I am unable to continue to survive. Is the purpose of this increase to squeeze out the weakest/ disabled/ struggling families out of Santa Monica? How does it go from 3 to 6% during these challenging times our city/ nation is going through? Rents in Santa Monica have approached $3500 for a single 1-bedroom unit. Most middle income families cannot pay that already so this is financial cleansing that’s happening. Ver concerning. So whatever it is we need to do as a collective, we will. There is no affordable housing in Santa Monica except for rent control and now that’s also being taken away.

Very concerned.

Irena
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Nancy McHugh <[email protected]> Sat, Jul 2, 7:10 AM (10 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Tatiana A <[email protected]> Jul 1, 2022, 11:02 PM (11 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Michael Hearle Fri, Jul 1, 10:54 PM (11 days
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide Item 11.A
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Matthew Pollock <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 1, 3:40 PM (11 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Jessica Wedemeyer <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 1, 2:45 PM (11 days ago)
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My elderly neighbor Joanie has lived in her rent-controlled apartment for more than 20 years.

She is retired with a fixed income and extremely unwell -- in the past year, I've seen her health deteriorate dramatically. She can barely walk and almost never leaves her home. How is she supposed to afford this significant monthly increase while also struggling to afford medical care? Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine -- and instead support -- the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

Please don't turn your back on long-time Santa Monica residents like my neighbor Joanie.

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Bruria Finkel Fri, Jul 1, 12:22 PM (11 days
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Bruria Finkel
Amy Kniss <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 1, 10:06 AM (11 days ago)
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Hello Council Members,
My landlord Roque & Mark have done nothing to improve my apartment in the 13 years I've lived here. Yet they increase the rent yearly. Increasing it by 6% in September, without even prior notice is unreasonable.

Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you.

Amy Kniss
1047 19th St, Unit B
Santa Monica
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Diane Drake <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 1, 9:05 AM (11 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Diane Drake
Claudia Warren Thu, Jun 30, 7:32 PM (12 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

I moved to Santa Monica, CA in 1994 and over the last almost 30 years I have lived in Santa Monica with my husband and raised a family.

Two beautiful children that went to all the local schools, Roosevelt, Lincoln Middle School and SAMO High school.

Because I was able to raise a family in a safe environment for my children I have stayed in Santa Monica, worked in Santa Monica, went to the local church in Santa Monica and finally started a business in Santa Monica.

Now my kids are off to college, my daughter is going to Chapman University studying to be an Elementary School teacher and has always talked about
teaching at Roosevelt when she gets her teaching degree.

So please don’t raise the rents here in Santa Monica and push hard working families out.

We believe in Santa Monica, that is a fair place to live and raise a family and grow old in.

Thank you.

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max slomoff <[email protected]> Thu, Jun 30, 7:04 PM (12 days ago)
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I knew a lady who was in her 70’s and had to leave her apartment because even though she had lived there in a rent controlled unit for many decades, because of the compounding increases she could no longer afford rent. Compounding increases of 6% are a lot over the years and they still force us out of our apartments. When we are spending time in and with and for the community, we are not getting rich and its a shame if we get forced out because we can’t afford our rent controlled dwellings.

Max
[email protected] Jun 30, 2022, 6:27 PM (12 days
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What is the matter with SMRR?
As a renter, absolutely not supporting this. SMRR has become far too militaristic in their social agenda, defining the council and the rent control board. No and no.

I don't want a poorly kept site. And it is REASONABLE, to have a 6% rent increase. Like I wrote, I am a renter (Santa Monica Jan 1995) but manage sites as well. For owners, insurance is up 11% each year, utilities are up 5-12% depending, Tier groups have gotten more rigid, cost of materials for repairs are way up (2-3x), min wage is $15 or so but you can't find people for under $20, property taxes are up each year, bonds for X and Y and Z are in place with a lot of things in the CA hopper to make life even more expensive. The CPI for May 2022 is 8.6% for the US, 8% for LA area. So how is less than 6% anywhere close to unreasonable? The taking is never ending in CA, LA County, SM and LA City from government for the alleged "needy". Where I live there are 14 units with a Range Rover, a Porsche or two, two Mercedes and a host of many newer cars - it is now the minority that are unable to afford changes like this.

How about if you make less than $50K annually, you get a 3% bump. If you make 50-75K, a 4%, 75-100 5% and over $100K 6%. I don't like this method as it is biased against those that work and are successful, but it is more "fair" financially. And you can prove it with your tax return. So owners raise you 6%, and if you disagree provide your tax return to rent control within 30 days or 60 days, whatever, and they can adjust accordingly. The onus is ON THE TENANT to perform, as they do only one task for themselves and the owner with 60 units does not have Item 11.A
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to do 60 tasks, chase people, get excuses, etc. No one wants to give you paperwork that costs them money if they do.

You guys really have no idea how buildings run and how complex and expensive it is. I wish you did, owing your own buildings not under the SMRR mantra, just as a day to day mom and pop owner, so your "wants and wishes" were well thought and justified. I rent - I'll pay the 6% and have a nice place to live.
[email protected] Thu, Jun 30, 5:03 PM (12 days
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Pamela Grenman <[email protected]> Thu, Jun 30, 4:36 PM (12 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

I’m a soon to be 75 year old renter who’s been in my apartment since 1975 with limited financial resources. It’s already difficult enough to manage inflated gas and food prices without this proposed steep rent increase.

Thank you for whatever you can do in this matter!
BRIAN GLADOUS <[email protected]> Thu, Jun 30, 4:06 PM (12 days ago)
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Hello All,
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you.

Brian Gladous
Santa Monica Tenant Resident
Megan Pamula <[email protected]> Thu, Jun 30, 4:06 PM (12 days ago)
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Hello all!
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2.

If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you!! Jocelyn Cassano <[email protected]> Thu, Jun 30, 4:02 PM (12 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Daisy Moreno <[email protected]> Thu, Jun 30, 3:12 PM (12 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Lily Houston Thu, Jun 30, 2:03 PM (12 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

HELLO! Yes, with America's city's various futures shakier by the day, a cap at 3% is an absolute necessity! Thank you, SMRR, for being on top of this! Thank you, Council for caring.

Love to all,
Lily
Edward Goldman <[email protected]> Thu, Jun 30, 1:51 PM (12 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you. --

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Andrea Dyer <[email protected]> Thu, Jun 30, 1:17 PM (12 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Pamela Rivera Thu, Jun 30, 1:01 PM (12 days
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We are the Rivera’s ,a retired couple in our 70’s. Originally 28 years ago so happy to be back in this nice community of Ocean Park.

My husband was born and raised in this city. We are actually living on the same block that he lived on when he was younger. His parents lived at 721 hill street for over 40 years and We have lived at 720 Raymond Ave under rent control
I am a member of the Ocean Park Community. I just got notice of an increase in the amount of 6%. What has this city come too. We are used to the 1%or 2% increases from the past years and are ably to budget for those but to jump to 6% when our social security does not increase at this level. it will be difficult for us seniors on fixed incomes to meet this rate. I guess the seniors and special circumstance residents no longer count.

We have been learning to deal with inflation as difficult as it is. Food costs which is a necessity, gas prices and now the possibility of this increase. We also had a slight increase on paying to park in front of our home plus meter increases and beach parking increases.

The nice laid back beach community has turned into only a high class travel destination. Those travelers are the cities main concern. So many whole blocks of regulars or smaller stores and restaurants have turned into what looks like just blocks of high rise Cement.

The city is already getting $2800 for your a one bedrooms I have been told and as much as $5000 for 3 bedrooms (like in my building).

It is all a shame.

We do hope that there will be some consideration for those of us that still matter to the city. We are the ones keeping it clean and respectable with a lot of kindness to those around us because we care about where we live.

Thank you,
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Kirk Stephens <[email protected]> Thu, Jun 30, 11:19 AM (12 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Rent controlled landlords should not be allowed to raise rents by 6% as of September 1, 2022. With the present high rate/cost of living, this will creat a real and dire hardship to those in Santa Monica who are on fitted incomes and or those of us who are retired.

I am retired and on a fitted income and this would be a real hardship.

The City of Santa Monica needs to amend the Charter to lower the General Adjustment cap. You need to protect the residents of this city, and not the interest of landlords, most of whom do not live in Santa Monica. Please do not add to the cost of living for those of us are just making it with no room to move.

Please do the right and honorable thing for your constituents. Many of us will not be able to make it without your help.

Thank you for your time and attention.

Kirk Stephens
1527 10th Street
Santa Monica,Ca.

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Delia Almares <[email protected]> Thu, Jun 30, 10:55 AM (12 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Roya Daie <[email protected]> Thu, Jun 30, 10:22 AM (12 days ago)
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Hi,
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Roya Daie
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Susan Beckner <[email protected]> Thu, Jun 30, 9:45 AM (12 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide Item 11.A
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desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Agnes S <[email protected]> Thu, Jun 30, 9:05 AM (12 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Agnes Smith
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Simone Najar <[email protected]> Thu, Jun 30, 9:00 AM (12 days ago)
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Dear Council Members,
We are a family of three, have a child who just graduated from Samohi and are long time Santa Monica residents. I’m writing about not only how this rent increase affects my family, but how it affects the community at large.

I work in early childhood education, and I know that the city just opened a large child care center by the civic center. This year we have finally reached the point where we CANNOT hire teachers for our school because a teacher on their salary cannot afford to live within 30 miles of Santa Monica. As it is now, we have teachers commuting from Valencia, Pacoima, Long Beach and Huntington Beach. Not only cannot they not afford to rent here, but with gas prices as they are right now, those teachers are considering leaving out school. How can this be sustainable? Who will teach at local schools? Why are teachers (and others who are not in lucrative positions) being priced out? Is Santa Monica only for tech workers, lawyers and people in the entertainment industry? Effectively we have become an island of the rich. Where is the city’s commitment to diversity in all its forms—economic, racial, cultural? This increase affects all of that. Some teachers also don’t qualify for low income housing, and even if they did, the teachers who applied have still never gotten off of the waitlist. I‘m surprised that the city is able to staff their own child care center and I’m guessing they are facing the same problem. We are not the only industry facing this problem. Once this increase goes into affect, there is no going back. I am one of the lucky ones who have been living here long enough that I can afford my rent for now. I’m assuming I will soon need to move if this continues.

I call for AFFORDABLE HOUSING for working people, families with children in local schools, the elderly and more. Not only do we want MORE new affordable housing, we ask you to preserve the affordable housing that already exists!
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on Item 11.A
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the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Simone Najar
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I know some of you may be focused on the interests of wealthiest of Santa Monica residents-- you may even be a homeowner or a local landlord with a large inherited wealth. Meanwhile, many residents are struggling and may even face the possibility of homelessness. Rentcontrolled tenants, many of whom are barely getting by, are now facing a 6% rent increase and need your help more than Santa Monica’s rich landowners. I hope you can now try to empathize with renters and those who are facing financial hardships.

Please consider the following.

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%.

3. Support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

Reject the misguided efforts of Phil Brock and others to undermine this.

City Council members claiming to serve the residents should get their priorities straight.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Daniel Westcott
Santa Monica Resident
310-408-6850
Coral K <[email protected]> Thu, Jun 30, 8:28 AM (12 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide Item 11.A
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Carole Phillips <[email protected]> Thu, Jun 30, 6:37 AM (12 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

V Hildebrand <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 11:52 PM (13 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Luke Dowley <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 10:16 PM (13 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Ethan Joffe <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 10:13 PM (13 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Felicia Dolfi <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 9:29 PM (13 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you.

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Santa Monica Council members
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and
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3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Denny Zane
310-570-5870
[email protected]
Eva Good <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 9:11 PM (13 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Ps, I have lived in Santa Monica over 40 years. We are retirees on a fixed income, any Increase on our rent over 3% would be difficult to manage.

Thanks,
Eva Good
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Russell Good <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 9:03 PM (13 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

PS My wife and have lived in Santa Monica over 40 years and as retirees on a fixed income any rent increases over 3% will be onerous.

Thanks for help,
Russ Good
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Ed Arzomand <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 7:04 PM (13 days ago)
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I am writing to you in hopes of you acting now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rentcontrolled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

E: [email protected]
M: 631-805-7757
Nathalie Maullin <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 6:41 PM (13 days ago)
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My husband had a stroke and I have no idea where we would move if our rent went up. Raising the rent will put another family out of their home. Inflation is hitting all of us so we already have less money. Why should landlords who ostensibly have more money than renters get a break? Nathalie
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Gail McManus <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 6:40 PM (13 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Dear City Council Members.

Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

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1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Gail McManus
952 17th St.

Santa Monica CA 90403
Michael Gustafson <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 5:55 PM (13 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Michael Gustafson
2473 Oak St.

Santa Monica
Mars <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 5:49 PM (13 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Lindsay O'Connor <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 5:43 PM (13 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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miles gumabon <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 5:22 PM (13 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%;
and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you.

We been living in Santa Monica for 13 years and growing older and loving the neighborhood.

Santa Monica have changed so much and new building and rental properties being built.

Our building still old and there is no improvement have never been done inside and out! The request of increase of rent from us on rent controlled properties is not quite acceptable and unaffordable, especially our apartment nothing have changed seen we moved here 13 years ago! Except the improvements we made by doing it ourself maintaining the property inside and out .

We did some landscaping on our own.

We lived here and it became our home for all those years and growing old and retiring and changes it will so difficult for us.

We are requesting to keep the rent control properties same as 3percent.

Sincerely,
Mpascarella
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Kaelin Burns <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 5:06 PM (13 days ago)
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Dear City Councilmembers,
Santa Monica is one of the few neighborhoods in Los Angeles that actually feels like a community.

Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you,
Kaelin Burns
Santa Monica resident for 10 years and counting
Mary Meadow <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 5:04 PM (13 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you. noone deserves a increase in rent control at this time
Please put on the ballot in November for our city
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Irene Miracle <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 4:42 PM (13 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you. kerry Thatcher <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 4:41 PM (13 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Nancy Drake <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 4:33 PM (13 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Nancy Drake
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Michael Edwin <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 4:21 PM (13 days ago)
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To Whom It SHOULD Concern:

Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. Pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

An election is always just around the corner.

Thank you.

Michael Edwin Noll
Steven Richard Osborn <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 4:14 PM (13 days ago)
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Dear Phil, Gleam, Oscar, Sue, Kristin, Lana & Christine:

Steven Richard Osborn
(310) 418-9656
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Lawrence Primo <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 4:05 PM (13 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you. robert shapiro Wed, Jun 29, 4:03 PM (13 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Jeffrey Coulter <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 3:45 PM (13 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Dear Council People,
This is a dire moment for many, many renters in Santa Monica! Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1.

Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey Coulter
Renter Santa Monica
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Francis P DellaVecchia <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 3:44 PM (13 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Francis DellaVecchia
[email protected]
Pamela Rivera Wed, Jun 29, 3:39 PM (13 days
ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Maria Lorenzana <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 3:24 PM (13 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Troy Pozirekides <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 3:24 PM (13 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Hello,
I am a Santa Monica renter of 7 years who is dismayed by the upcoming 6% rent increase, writing in support of SMRR's three-step platform for mitigation.

Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%;

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you.

Troy Pozirekides
1225 17th St. Apt. E
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Sue Ahearn <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 3:22 PM (13 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Dear City Council Members: Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rentcontrolled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you,
Sue Ahearn
828 4th street #201
Santa Monica, 90403
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Jon Amsden Wed, Jun 29, 3:22 PM (13 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Dr. Jon Amsden, PhD. (London Econ)
Sue Ahearn <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 3:15 PM (13 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Mary Jimenez <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 3:06 PM (13 days ago)
to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], sue.himm [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], christine.parra @smgov.net, [email protected], [email protected]
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Pamela Rivera Wed, Jun 29, 3:03 PM (13 days
ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Pamela Rivera Wed, Jun 29, 3:01 PM (13 days
ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Kurt Gonska <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 3:00 PM (13 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Even with the $140 cap, my rent will increase to ABOVE other comparable apartments in my neighborhood. This is unacceptable.

Thank you.

Kurt Gonska
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Pamela Rivera Wed, Jun 29, 3:00 PM (13 days
ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Alisa Beaton <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 2:50 PM (13 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you!
Alisa Beaton
2306 28th St., #2
Matt B <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 2:39 PM (13 days ago)
to christine.parra, council, gleam.davis, info, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, oscar.delatorre, phil.brock, sue.himmelrich
Dear SM City Council members,
During a time with high inflation, high gas prices, high housing prices, and now high interest rates on mortgages is poor time to increase rent control rent increase to 6%. Landlords have the Item 11.A
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option to lock their mortgages, and many of whom were able to take advantage and refinance their mortgages to lower interest rates. Renters do not have the luxury of locking in and keeping out rent at the same rate.

Warm regards,
Matthew Bassein
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Warm regards,
Matthew Bassein
[email protected]
(818) 635-8521
[email protected] Wed, Jun 29, 2:38 PM (13 days
ago)
to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], sue.himm [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], christine.parra @smgov.net, [email protected], [email protected]
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Michele De La Riva <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 2:25 PM (13 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Rent is outrageous enough without our landlords upping the rate every year! They do nothing to fix the place up and it is impossible to get them to do anything.

Bill Wed, Jun 29, 2:24 PM (13 days
ago)
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Dear council Members,
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3.

Stay safe and be well!
William J. Bracken
1518 Yale St., #4
Santa Monica, CA 90404
vm-310-829-4034
fax-310-449-1013
Thomas Morgan <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 2:23 PM (13 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Carole Phillips <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 2:21 PM (13 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Sasa Blackoff <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 2:18 PM (13 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Richard Tuggle <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 2:16 PM (13 days ago)
to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], sue.himm [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], christine.parra @smgov.net, [email protected], [email protected]
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Marnine Casillas <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 2:15 PM (13 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Meryl Goodwin <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 2:11 PM (13 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Hello,
My name is Meryl Goodwin, and my husband and I currently reside in a rent controlled apartment in Santa Monica at 1952 18th street. As a freelancer working in the film industry (that was heavily impacted by COVID-19), paying for my own gear, health insurance, taxes, and the rising cost of gas, utilities and inflation….it doesn’t feel right to pass this high of a rent increase onto tenants as it stands. We are already dealing with enough of a financial burden.

Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you,
Meryl Goodwin
Larry Leahy <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 2:10 PM (13 days ago)
to christine.parra, council, gleam.davis, info, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, oscar.delatorre, phil.brock, sue.himmelrich
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide Item 11.A
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desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Michael Stratigakis <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 2:04 PM (12 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
As a longtime resident of Santa Monica, 2020 hit me hard financially. To then add larger rent increases than expected makes things pretty rough. Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rentburdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents not just for today but the future.

Dan Boyle <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 2:02 PM (12 days ago)
to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], sue.himm [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], christine.parra @smgov.net, [email protected], [email protected]
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Jeff Perlman <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 1:50 PM (12
days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.m ccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Hi,
I am a retired senior who has been living in Santa Monica and will effected by this increase, hope you can do something about it.

Jeff Perlman
1033 3rd St. #309
Santa Monica, California 90403
[email protected]
310-339-8639
Wed, Jun 29, 1:46
PM (12 days ago)
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Patricia Storms <[email protected]>
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Furthermore, while rents go up, our community is spiraling downhill - higher crime, out of control homeless problem, open drug use, failing retail (the Promenade is sad and an embarrassment).

This is no longer the vibrant community it once was.

Patricia Kelly Storms
10 year renter
Meehna Goldsmith <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 1:45 PM (12 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

We’ve all been hit hard by the pandemic and still struggling to catch up. Increasing the limit by 100% isn’t reasonable or fair.
m
Meehna Goldsmith
Mobile: 310 210 8226
Yash Joshi <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 1:45 PM (12 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Doug Hedlund <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 1:45 PM (12 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Ellen Knight Wed, Jun 29, 1:44 PM (12 days
ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

I am a senior citizen on a fixed income. The 6% rent increase will be very oppressive to me at this time of excessive rising prices on everything.

Thank you for your attention to this very important issue.

Ellen Knight
Santa Monica renter
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Anabella Tidona <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 1:43 PM (12 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Anabella Tidona
3015 3rd St #2
Santa Monica CA 90405
(310) 460-8211
joyce manson <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 1:42 PM (12 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Jon Beanlands <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 1:41 PM (12 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide Item 11.A
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desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you. *Mobile Transmission*
[email protected] Wed, Jun 29, 1:40 PM (12 days
ago)
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Hello:

Please help avert this dramatic rent increase. This will have the most impact in low income folks but also many others, including us. Inflation is hitting everywhere and 6% would be about double the normal rent control impact. Please keep it at 3% or less.

Thank you!
San Vicente renter
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you. ej lutz <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 1:40 PM (12 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Babak Bina <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 1:37 PM (12 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Seve Woods <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 1:36 PM (12 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Angela Scott Wed, Jun 29, 1:35 PM (12 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Warmest,
Angela
Angela D. Scott
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." - Shirley Chisholm
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Catherine Horrigan <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 1:35 PM (12 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Catherine
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Lisa Cherry <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 1:34 PM (12 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Lisa Cherry
Randy
Walburger <[email protected]>
Wed, Jun 29, 1:15 PM (12 days
ago)
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November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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The oil rich know the gasoline is going to be obsolete and they have jacked up the price of everything oil touches.

The recent rise in a barrel of oil went from $40 to $120 up 300% in one year!! Surely now the poor need to be cared for when their income doesn’t cover food and housing as prices rise!
Rnady Walburger
310-828-9328
Alisha Grauso <[email protected]> Jun 29, 2022, 11:56 AM (12 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

I am a single woman who can only afford to live and work in Santa Monica because of rent control. Like too many others, I lost my job during the pandemic. While I was lucky enough to get another job, it doesn't pay nearly what my former job did. Money is tight, and that's even with having a freelance job on top of my full-time one. If rent goes up much further, I will no longer be able to afford to live here, which would break my heart.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Cheers,
Alisha Grauso
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Jane Pannor Wed, Jun 29, 9:34 AM (12 days
ago)
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My daughter lives in a rent controlled unit and though she has a bachelors degree, she works with children with autism and her work barely pays her $19 per hour and doesn’t give her full time work because of the covid restrictions on the schools where some of her clients go to school.

I have to supplement her income and that’s absurd. I am retired and disabled.

If you allow a $150 rent increase that will mean I have to choose between something else and keeping a safe roof over my family. The landlord is already extremely wealthy, and I worked for years for the city of Santa Monica cleaning toilets on the pier to build up our city. Though I saved all my life I can’t even afford to have a 2 bedroom apartment much less buy something. I am a native of the west side and 30+ year SM resident.

And lastly, I voted for you! Thank you.

Christina Funnell Wed, Jun 29, 9:17 AM (12 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

We are already going hungry due to rising costs, now we are going to be hungry and homeless, why ???
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Nate Merandi <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 9:13 AM (12 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you.

Nate Merandi
Sunset Neighborhood
Jon Amsden Wed, Jun 29, 8:43 AM (12 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1.

Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Dr. Jon Amsden, PhD. (London Econ)
Andrea Harmon <[email protected]> Tue, Jun 28, 9:30 PM (13 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and
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3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

I currently live in a rent-controlled one bedroom apartment with my 19 year old son. I sleep on the fold out couch in our living room. We know how lucky we are to have this rent controlled apartment as the people in other one bedroom apartments in our building pay approx one thousand a month more in rent than we do. Even though I make over $90K a year, there is no way I could afford a two bedroom apartment in Santa Monica as the rent would be half of my monthly income.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you.
~Andrea Harmon
Robert Fleischer Tue, Jun 28, 6:49 PM (13 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Daniel Shear Tue, Jun 28, 6:17 PM (13 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Lily Houston Tue, Jun 28, 5:48 PM (13 days
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

I'm a senior, a citizen for over 40 years. I still love my city tho' it's becoming strange due to the increasing number of trust fund baby neighbors and decreasing number of real type people.

Three percent protects local sanity, six percent... well, which of my medicines am I supposed to stop taking?
Lily
wes hanson <[email protected]> Tue, Jun 28, 4:55 PM (13 days ago)
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Hello
Please note that once rent is jacked up it never goes down… a major increase becomes more and more unaffordable over time as annual percentage increases build on a permanently higher base, regardless of future inflation.

More to the point, landlords do NOT need to raise rent; they simply are being opportunistic and using headline news about inflation to their advantage. Don’t fall for their pity party. It’s tenants who are hurting, not the multimillionaires, billionaires, and REITs that own almost all the buildings.

In fact, landlords have often owned their buildings for many, many years. If their buildings are not paid off by now it’s only because the owners have remortgaged them in order to buy other property…
Please do not give in to greed — reject unreasonable rent increases.

Thank you kindly
Cara Garfield <[email protected]> Tue, Jun 28, 4:34 PM (13 days ago)
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Hello!
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors. My rent has been going up significantly year over year, even during the pandemic, and the current economic climate is very scary.

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you for your time and consideration,
Cara
Maralee Grant Tue, Jun 28, 4:34 PM (13 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

SANDRA BRUMER <[email protected]> Tue, Jun 28, 4:09 PM (13 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Sandra Brumer
I am now living on a pension. The yearly rent increase of 6% will make it difficult for me to continue paying all my bills. It will also be a challenge to save for my later years.I have lived here for over 34 years. I taught at Edison Elementary for 30 years. Please consider those of us who have given so much to the community, but cannot afford a higher rent.

Thank you so very much
Sandra Brumer
Retired SMMUSD Teacher
RODNEY LEE <[email protected]> Tue, Jun 28, 3:27 PM (13 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Rodney Lee
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David Glück <[email protected]> Tue, Jun 28, 3:06 PM (13 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

As it is, I'm on the POD program due to my low fixed income and an inability to work due to some chronic health conditions. A 6% increase at this time would devastate me.

Thank you.

David Gluck
1937 12th St. Apt A
Santa Monica 90404
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Joanna Fancy Tue, Jun 28, 2:49 PM (13 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Michael Everding <[email protected]> Tue, Jun 28, 2:26 PM (13 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Thank you and best regards,
Michael Everding
401 Washington Ave. Apt. 204
Santa Monica CA 90403
(310)405-1472
Joan Sekler <[email protected]> Tue, Jun 28, 2:09 PM (13 days ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide Item 11.A
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Michelle Naden Tue, Jun 28, 1:30 PM (13 days
ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Sarah DeFrance Tue, Jun 28, 1:06 PM (13 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you,
Sarah DeFrance
Larry Lawson <[email protected]> Tue, Jun 28, 12:45 PM (13 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

As you know, Santa Monica’s rents already stress personal budgets. Allowing them to escalate quickly will harm many households including mine. I am a retiree whose income will not keep pace.

Thank you.

Larry Lawson
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Geoff Keith <[email protected]>
Tue, Jun 28, 12:43 PM (13 days
ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you,
Geoff Keith
The Lawsons <[email protected]>
Tue, Jun 28, 12:36 PM (13 days
ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. I moved here because of those values. And as a retiree, I fear my modest pension will not keep up with even moderate inflation, let alone a rent increase of this magnitude. Thank you.

Catherine Lawson
[email protected]
Tue, Jun 28, 12:23 PM (13 days
ago)
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Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

Please do this, dear City Council!! Or I won’t be able to afford to live in my fair city anymore, and I’ve been here almost 20 years! It’s my home, I have no other. We cannot just become a city of and for the very wealthy, as other cities have become.

Please:

1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%

2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3% and

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today! Thank you.

Best,
Elizabeth Segal
Santa Monica, CA
(310)393-7068 (home and for v.m.)
(310)729-1267 (cell and for texts)
Nita <[email protected]> Tue, Jun 28, 12:14 PM (13 days ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Please add my name to those who support the above Charter Amendment. As a long-time, happy renter of my beloved apartment in Santa Monica, I want to be able to stay here! I feel so fortunate to be able to live here. My heart goes out to those unlucky souls who live elsewhere and must struggle to make ends meet. Keep Santa Monica a place for income diversity.

Thanks to you for the good work you do!
Nita Heimbaugh
833 20th St. #205
Santa Monica, 90403
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[email protected]
Tue, Jun 28, 12:02 PM (13 days
ago)
to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], sue.himm [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], christine.parra @smgov.net, [email protected], [email protected]
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

HELENA BUSCEMA <[email protected]>
Tue, Jun 28, 11:38 AM (13 days
ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to AVERT the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors:

3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Helena Buscema
Pamela Maloney
Tue, Jun 28, 11:26 AM (13 days
ago)
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I have lived in my Rent Controlled Apartment for 40+ years and need to continue. I am 74 years old, do still teach part time out of necessity and love of students, but the pay is low. I also am now disabled due to a broadside by a large truck running a red light in February. I am healing slowly (as is the reality of this age) but will not be able to tolerate a large rent increase. I would have to absorb the anxiety and work load of moving out of the area if you determine to raise Item 11.A
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rents so much in the future. Please cap the rents increases so I can remain undisturbed for this time.

Pamela Maloney,
PhD, DHM, LAc,, Dipl OM
www.pamelamaloney.com
[email protected]
phone 310-399-5253
~That which I seek is seeking me
Robin Sherry
Tue, Jun 28, 11:24 AM (13 days
ago)
to Phil, Gleam, oscar.delatorre, Sue, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, Christine, council, SMRR Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Robin Sherry
The Shores
39 Year Resident
Rev. Jim Conn
Tue, Jun 28, 11:22 AM (13 days
ago)
to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], sue.himm [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], christine.parra @smgov.net, [email protected], [email protected]
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Rev. Jim Conn
230 Pacific St #108
Santa Monica, CA 90405
310/392-5056
Associations:

CLUE - A Founding Member: www.cluejustice.org
Climate Action Santa Monica - Advisory Board
Asset Based Community Development: www.abcdinstitute.org/ United Methodist Minister - Retired: www.calpacUMC.org
Former Council Member and Mayor of Santa Monica
Jeff Cummings <[email protected]>
Tue, Jun 28, 11:18 AM (13 days
ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Jeff Cummings
310-428-1789
robert shapiro
Tue, Jun 28, 11:14 AM (13 days
ago)
to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], sue.himm [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], christine.parra @smgov.net, [email protected], [email protected]
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Adrian Stepien <[email protected]>
Tue, Jun 28, 11:12 AM (13 days
ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
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As a renter who has lived in Santa Monica for 30 years, it is becoming increasingly difficult to afford to live in the city that I grew up in and love so much. We must do everything we can to protect the citizens and keep housing affordable. Please take my request into consideration.

Done.

Will do.

Signed.

ReplyReply allForward
Tim Hanson <[email protected]>
Tue, Jun 28, 11:11 AM (13 days
ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

I have been in my apartment for 29 years.I was shocked to receive the 6% rent increase notice yesterday. That's a two-year rent increase in one year. I have recently retired from substitute teaching and will be living on a Calstrs pension that will now cover nothing more than my rent and utilities. I have some savings, but with these kinds of rent increases along with all the other inflated costs of living, I don't see how I'll be able to continue living where I am for much longer. I urge you to take whatever measures possible to limit rent increases in Santa Monica.

Thank you,
Tim Hanson
223 Strand St. Apt. F
Santa Monica
wes hanson <[email protected]>
Tue, Jun 28, 11:07 AM (13 days
ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the Item 11.A
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citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Janet Carter
Tue, Jun 28, 11:06 AM (13 days
ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Janet D Carter
2803 Kansas Ave
Santa Monica CA 90404
320-467-4494
Edward Blackoff
Tue, Jun 28, 11:04 AM (13 days
ago)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent-burdened lower-income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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From: Council Mailbox
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:39 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: NO on 11A, YES on 11B-Plus, YES on 11D, Pass an Emergency Rent-Relief Ordinance From: Sonya Sultan <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 3:06 AM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: NO on 11A, YES on 11B‐Plus, YES on 11D, Pass an Emergency Rent‐Relief Ordinance

EXTERNAL
Dear Santa Monica City Council Members:

I strongly urge the City Council to vote NO on Item 11A, a cynical and disingenuous attempt to undermine the residents’ “Homelessness Prevention, Affordable Housing and Schools” initiative which qualified for the ballot based on signatures of over 10,000 Santa Monica voters. The residents’ measure would raise over $50,000,000 per year by increasing transfer taxes on the sale of extremely high-value real estate. That’s why real estate investors and developers have been waging a misinformation campaign to sow confusion among voters, and why they are so eager to see Councilmember Brock’s poison-pill counter measure placed on the ballot. Hopefully,other Councilmembers have resisted drinking the Kool-Aid and will vote NO tonight on Item 11A, as well as YES on Item 11D, the residents’ initiative, which will enable us to, among other things, greatly expand the POD program to help families as well as many more seniors.

I also strongly urge the Council to take the following steps to help protect our neighbors in rentcontrolled units who are facing an unprecedented 6% rent increase due to historically high inflation coupled with a City Charter provision which leaves the Rent Control Board without power to provide rent increase relief:

1. Place on the November 2022 ballot an amendment to the City Charter capping the annual rent increase at 3% (rather than the current 6%). This is in addition to the other Charter amendments in Item 11B which I also support, including giving the Rent Control Board emergency power to impose an emergency rent freeze, as has been done in neighboring jurisdictions.

2. Pass an emergency ordinance reducing this year’s allowable rent increase to 3%.

This reduction is critical because, unless reversed by the Council, the 6% increase will become part of the maximum allowable rent (MAR) upon which future increases are calculated. A 3% increase will also be consistent with action being taken by other California cities.

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2 A great many of our lower and moderate income neighbors are already struggling to cover basic living expenses in these inflationary times. It would be unconscionable to allow the current 6% rent increase to come into effect on September 1, thereby forcing seniors and families into greater housing insecurity.

I urge you to act swiftly and decisively to protect our neighbors, our City, and the values we hold dear.

Sincerely,
Sonya Fox Sultan
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From: Council Mailbox
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:40 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐
From: Joan Grossman <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 10:14 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

Regarding item 11B, please support the Charter Amendment requests of the Rent Control Board AND ALSO ACT NOW to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent‐controlled tenants by supporting a further Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%;AND if legally permissible, support passing an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%.
**We are all paying more at the supermarkets and other places due to inflation. It is adding insult to injury to also base our rent increase on that same inflation.In other words we ARE BEING AFFECTED TWICE BY INFLATION…when we buy goods and services and then a second time using inflation to increase our rent. We are on fixed incomes. Some of us supported by our children.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Joan Grossman
[email protected]
424‐268‐4498
1117 6 Street Apt 302
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To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐
From: Natalia Peláez <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 10:24 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

EXTERNAL
Please advert the 6% rent increase.

This increase will make it very hard to survive in SM. Everything is going up as it is, renters like me will struggle to pay rent.

Please think of all the people that this increase will affect.

Thanks.

Sent from my iPad
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From: Council Mailbox
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:41 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! From: Jane Monteagle <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 8:39 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

AND if legally permissible, support passing an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐
From: neal wilde <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 8:34 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Neal Wilde
Sent from my iPhone
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From: Council Mailbox
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:41 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! From: Deborah <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 8:14 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

Thank you,
D. Tuckman
A. Mayis
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From: Council Mailbox
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:42 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! From: Rebecca Nunnelee <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 7:01 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

Since most Santa Monica rents are quite high as a result of the rent control limits enacted many years ago at the State level, most landlords are receiving adequate rent (especially since many do not keep up their properties). The current sources of high inflation hit the middle and low income citizens much harder than they do landlords (who tend to have a higher income stream). A 6% rent increase will directly, negatively impact the renters. It makes little logical cite inflation as a reason to give the landlords an increase in the rents collected. Their costs for upkeep of a building are not significantly impacted by the current inflation factors, which affect areas of food consumption, gasoline, restaurants, and daily purchases. Purchase of new housing will be influenced by higher interest rates, but a current property owner will presumably not be taking out a new loan on an existing property (which would be foolish at current interest rates). If they choose to spend their money on new properties, the cost should not be on the backs of renters.

Further, please consider the severe lack of housing in the LACounty area, including Santa Monica. Your average citizen cannot afford to purchase a home, especially in Santa Monica. Increases in interest rates (as noted above) will definitely make it harder for an average citizen to even consider purchasing a home. Plus there are fewer homes to purchase overall. This means people must rent. Increasing the rents 6% is bound to result in an exodus of current renters who cannot afford the increased rent. When they leave, the owner/landlord is allowed to increase the rent to market value (i.e., there is not 6% limit). Therefore, driving renters out of their dwellings by increasing rents is really a gift to the owners, in my view.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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From: Council Mailbox
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:41 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: [email protected];
From: Vincent Gibert <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 7:15 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]> Subject: [email protected];

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From: Joanne Berlin <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:22 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: input for 11A & 11D on the 7/12 City council agenda

EXTERNAL
Dear City Council Members,
I’m writing to you on behalf of the steering committee of Committee For Racial Justice (CRJ) about tonight’s Council agenda items 11A and 11D.

We see 11A as a “copy cat” effort, that some people call the developers’ initiative, as an attempt to thwart and replace the citizens’ initiative referenced in 11D (which provides housing support to keep people from being forced out of Santa Monica – many of whom are people of color ‐ and provides funds for building housing that more people can afford, as well as support for our schools).

We oppose, not only the lack of specificity in the “laundry list” (designed to sound appealing) of things that might be funded by 11A, but also the fact that all funds go into the City's general fund for the council to direct how they are spent. In addition, not only is 11A designed to raise less money than 11D, the exemptions are designed to protect numerous large money transactions that benefit the wealthy (who will still do very well in those transactions).

CRJ and many other people in Santa Monica have long held concerns about the lack of affordable housing in our city. We know that what is called “affordable” is not a real possibility for a number of our community members at the moment. We want to maintain and improve the rich diversity of people who call Santa Monica home. We urge you to vote NO on the cynical attempt embedded in 11A to tailor the transfer tax concept to protect wealth interests. This transfer tax is a concept first introduced by the petitions, signed by thousands of our neighbors, that are now represented in item 11D tonight .

We urge you to certify the Qualified Initiative of a well thought out and comprehensive plan to help more people in our community to stay housed by voting YES on 11D.

These discussions tonight will reflect the priorities and justice & inclusion concerns of our city and we hope that its citizens will be well served by your decisions.

On behalf of Committee For Racial Justice Steering Committee, Joanne Berlin, Coordinator
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Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐
From: Yvonne Horrigan <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 5:32 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

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I have lived in Santa Monica since the 60s. My late husband has owned businesses here, volunteered his services over the years. All five of my children and two grandchildren have gone to school in Santa Monica. I will be 88 in December and three daughters are helping pay my rent. Raising my rent would mean that I have nowhere to live, as my daughters would have increased rent as well and would have to lose the town that I hold so dear to my heart.

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Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:43 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! From: Colleen Carty <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 2:44 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

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Hello City Council,
My name is Colleen Carty and I am a resident in a rent controlled unit in Santa Monica. I am a grad student working towards a Masters degree in Social Work. The 6% rent increase that is being proposed for all rent controlled units in Santa Monica will adversely affect my wellbeing and livelihood. As a student, I am already working full time and going to school full time to make it by in the current climate. This large rent increase would make it extremely difficult for me to keep my housing and continue with my schooling. As someone who hopes to work professionally serving the community, I please ask you to consider the below to keep us in our homes. Thank you for your time.

Regarding item 11A, please reject this effort to compete with and undermine the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs, as well as for affordable housing and our public schools. Regarding item 11B, please support the Charter Amendment requests of the Rent Control Board AND ALSO ACT NOW to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants by supporting a further Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; AND if legally permissible, support passing an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.
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Colleen Carty
[email protected]
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Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:43 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Santa Monica Rent Control Raise
From: Krystal Chang <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 2:31 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Santa Monica Rent Control Raise

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I have been a renter living in Santa Monica since 2007. I am a free-lance designer and work was hit hard during the pandemic. Things are better now but with prices for everything going up due to inflation or increased transport and energy costs I am not able to spend more on rent. I am lucky to have rent control or else I would be in much worse shape. Cities should be run for the people who actually live here, work here, shop here. If Santa Monica wants to be a place for all people, not just the wealthy, we need rent relief!
Regarding item 11A, please reject this effort to compete with and undermine the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs, as well as for affordable housing and our public schools. Regarding item 11B, please support the Charter Amendment requests of the Rent Control Board AND ALSO ACT NOW to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants by supporting a further Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; AND if legally permissible, support passing an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you.

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To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Item 11-A on July 12, 2022 City Council Agenda From: Linda Sullivan <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 12:22 AM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: Item 11‐A on July 12, 2022 City Council Agenda

EXTERNAL
Mayor and Council Members:

What residents of Santa Monica need and want most is to see less homeless people on the streets. Council Member Phil Brock's tax proposal does nothing to address this priority. Nothing will do more good for the City than to address homelessness in a direct and meaningful way by providing more new affordable housing. More parks, more landscaped mediums, more trees would be nice, but not as nice as a far more livable environment where more people are adequately housed, and fewer people live on our streets.

Please reject tonights poison pill ballot measure and reinforce the city's commitment and the commitment of more than 10,000 Santa Monica residents who signed petitions to successfully qualify a November ballot measure that will actually move us toward our goal of getting more homeless people into homes. Please vote no on item11-A.

Linda Sullivan
[email protected]
[email protected]

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Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐
From: Natasha Berokoff <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 2:50 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

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Dear City Council Members,
Regarding item 11A, please reject this effort to compete with and undermine the citizens’ transfer‐tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs, as well as for affordable housing and our public schools.

I have lived/rented in Santa Monica for 10 years. It’s been a pleasure both living and working in this city. I work for an art gallery, it’s a labor of love, but the arts are so important, the small salary is acceptable. Especially knowing that I do not have to worry about inflated rent increases. But in order to live in Santa Monica, I still must have a roommate, who actually earns less than I. He moved to Santa Monica from Germany, also because he fell in love with Santa Monica, it’s culture and kind people, after visiting me multiple times over the years. We both live paycheck‐to‐paycheck, so an increase would hit our pockets badly. If the 6% is passed, we may have to move, it’s far from what we want.

Thank you for listening to our story.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Kind regards,
Natasha Berokoff & Tom Sieberns
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To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Please cap rent increases to 3%
From: Schleimer, Robin <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 2:36 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Please cap rent increases to 3%

EXTERNAL
Dear Councilmembers,
Regarding item 11A, please reject this effort to compete with and undermine the citizens’ transfer‐tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs, as well as for affordable housing and our public schools.

Thank you!
Kind regards,
Robin Schleimer
Veteran teacher, Santa Monica renter, and your voting constituent Item 11.A
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Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐
From: bano965 <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 2:41 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

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Dear Phil Brock and City of Santa Monica:

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Shahbano Rauf
2326 28th street, unit A
Santa Monica, CA 90405
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To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! From: Jaime Kalman Chipko <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 1:46 PM
To: Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]> Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

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Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐
From: Family Volmert‐Underbrink <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 2:01 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

EXTERNAL
Dear Santa Monica City Council Members,
Regarding item 11A, please reject this effort to compete with and undermine the citizens’ transfer‐tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs, as well as for affordable housing and our public schools.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Carolyn Underbrink
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To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! From: nora bachman <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 2:09 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]> Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

EXTERNAL
Dear Councilmembers,
Regarding item 11A, please reject this effort to compete with and undermine the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs, as well as for affordable housing and our public schools.

Regarding item 11B, please support the Charter Amendment requests of the Rent Control Board AND ALSO ACT NOW to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants by supporting a further Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; AND if legally permissible, support passing an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you.

Nora Bachman
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Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐
From: Lynn Sullivan Goss <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 2:15 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Lynn Sullivan Goss
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Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:44 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! From: Garret Reynolds <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 1:33 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

AND if legally permissible, support passing an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐
From: SUSAN GOLD <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 1:38 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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From: Council Mailbox
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:46 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Reject the 6% rent increase
From: Meghan Walsh <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 12:16 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]> Subject: Reject the 6% rent increase

EXTERNAL
Hello Council Members,
Regarding item 11A, please reject this effort to compete with and undermine the citizens’ transfer-tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs, as well as for affordable housing and our public schools.

AND if legally permissible, support passing an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you. ‐‐
Meghan Walsh
Producer
Cell: +1 215 380 2415
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Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:45 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! From: Jill Tenney <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 12:28 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; SMRR ‐ Santa Monicans for Renters' Rights <[email protected]>
Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

AND if legally permissible, support passing an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! From: Sam Weller <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 12:29 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

EXTERNAL
Hi SM Council,
Regarding item 11A, please reject this effort to compete with and undermine the citizens’ transfer‐tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs, as well as for affordable housing and our public schools.

AND if legally permissible, support passing an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you,
Sam
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To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 12:32 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

PLEASE DO NOT CREATE EVEN MORE HOMELESSNESS! I am a senior woman who has lived in my rent controlled apartment for the past 32 years. Being on a fixed income, there is no way that I can afford to pay market value. I'd end up homeless or having to leave CA after a total of 46 years in SM. Prior to retiring in June, I worked for the SMMUSD for 21 years. I love Santa Monica, but the crazy increases in rent over the years makes it impossible to feel secure. When I moved here in 1979, I was in my early 20's, and paid only $300 a month for a very large one bedroom apartment North of Wilshire. Now, it is rare that anyone in their 20's can even afford to rent an apartment without a roommate.

Please give tenants a break, and decrease the percentage of the increase. Dealing with a pandemic, (I've had Covid twice), and between the cost of gas/groceries and everything else due to excessive inflation, we need more help, not more hurt!
Thank you,
Debra Gerhardt
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Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! From: Christine S. <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 12:45 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Christine Schoppe
Santa Monica resident
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To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐
From: VALERIE PLAZA <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 12:45 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

EXTERNAL
To Whom It May Concern,
I am a renter in Santa Monica. This is my 14th year.

In 2011 when I was teaching at a private school here in Santa Monica, I sustained a head injury on recess duty that was so severe that I have lived with a traumatic brain injury to this day. A big and very strong 6th grade boy kicked a ball into my face while running. My eyes were affected as well. It’s been quite a struggle.

I have not been able to teach at the same capacity again nor make the kind of money I used to make then. I am a private tutor now. 6% of an increase in my rent would be devastating. Please reconsider staying with the 3% increase.

Sincerely,
Valerie Plaza
629 Idaho Avenue
Unit 3
Santa Monica 90403
Please act now to avert the looming 6% rent increase to all rent‐controlled tenants, and to provide support to our already struggling rent‐burdened lower‐income neighbors: 1. Place on the November ballot a Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%; 2. If legally permissible, pass an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%; and 3. Cease or reject efforts to undermine, and instead support, the citizens’ transfer‐tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:45 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐
From: VALERIE PLAZA <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 12:46 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

EXTERNAL
PS Valerie Plaza
My phone number is 805‐558‐4351
Regarding item 11A, please reject this effort to compete with and undermine the citizens’ transfer‐tax initiative signed by over 10,000 Santa Monica residents that will provide desperately needed funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs, as well as for affordable housing and our public schools.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐
From: Shawn Saunders <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 12:54 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

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Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:45 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: I can't afford to own in this city, please protect me - Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!
From: Matt Tolerico <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 1:08 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: I can't afford to own in this city, please protect me ‐ Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

EXTERNAL
As a 10 year resident of Santa Monica, I elected you to protect me. I love this city, but a 6% rent increase is outlandish and inconsiderate during these times. I understand inflation has raised some prices for owners, but with an average rent of $3,891, I think Santa Monica rental owners are still profiting. The concern should not be on the person who has the financial privilege of owning a property, it's humane to worry for someone who has no choice but to rent because it's unattainable to buy in this city. Please protect citizens like me who are just trying to live a happy life in this town:

AND if legally permissible, support passing an ordinance limiting rent increases from September 1 through the November election to 3%.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Matt Tolerico
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Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:46 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐
From: Jezebel corpuz‐Todd <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 12:11 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Jezebel Todd
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Santa Monica City CouncilJuly 12, 2022

Santa Monica City Council
July 12, 2022