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

Danielle Leidner-Peretz
Director, Government Affairs &
External Relations
[email protected]
213.384.4131; Ext. 309
July 8, 2022
Via Electronic Mail
Hon. Mayor Sue Himmelrich and
Members of the Santa Monica City Council
City Hall – Council Chambers
685 Main Street, Room 250
Santa Monica, California 90401
Re: Adoption of Resolutions for Proposed Ballot Measures on the November 8, 2022 Election Amending Articles XVIII and XXIII of the City Charter (Agenda Item 11.B) Dear Hon. Mayor Himmelrich and Members of the Santa Monica City Council:

At its July 12th Santa Monica City Council meeting, the Council will consider advancement of several proposed measures to revise the City Charter Rent Control provisions for placement on the November 2022 ballot. These revisions would modify requirements for owner occupancy evictions, expand rent registry requirements to non-controlled units, and provide the City’s Rent Control Board (RCB) with unilateral authority to suspend or reduce allowable rent increases during any declared state of emergency. The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA or Association) is strongly opposed to all of the proposed ballot measures and strongly urges the City Council to reject their placement on the November 2022 ballot.
• Expansion of Rent Registry to Non-Rent Controlled Units Rental registries infringe on the privacy rights of renters and rental housing providers alike by requiring the disclosure of personal and confidential information. Like anyone who is uncomfortable about disclosing their income or the cost of a recent purchase, renters often do not wish to have the details of how much they are paying for rent to be public knowledge. This is especially true in the absence of a regulatory need for the information to be required.

Small business rental housing providers are operating a business and financial and other information concerning their rental units constitutes sensitive and confidential business records. Rental housing providers have a fundamental liberty and property interest in their rental property records, and a constitutional right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, as protected by the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The City’s “Rental Registry” and disclosure requirements without any pre-compliance review procedure, as is mandated by the Fourth Amendment, is to subject property owners and housing providers to unreasonable searches and seizures in deprivation of their fundamental constitutional rights.

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Founded upon these constitutional protections, the Association currently has litigation pending in Federal Court against the cities of Los Angeles and Beverly Hills and their rent registration programs. It is also important to recognize, that even in circumstances where a City chooses to limit public access to the registry, the information contained therein can be obtained by virtually any third party through a Freedom of Information Act request.

In addition to the clear privacy and constitutional rights implications, rental registries are also expensive for cities to administer and housing providers to comply with. Moreover, what is the legitimate regulatory basis for expanding applicability of the rent registry and a registration fee to non-RSO rental units? Pursuant to Proposition 218, there must be a legitimate regulatory basis for any such fee otherwise the fee would be deemed an illegal tax.

Rental housing providers are already reeling from the financial impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and related governmental mandates of the last several years, and with many small business “mom and pop” property owners already on the verge of selling or losing their property. This adverse financial situation has only been compounded by challenging rent collections during the past 2 plus years, and now runaway inflationary pressures effecting the whole economy that has caused costs for all types of goods and services to rapidly escalate under the current inflation rate which is at 8% or more. The exit of these small business, “mom and pop” housing providers that furnish the bulk of the City’s affordable housing units, would be a tremendous loss to the City and a potentially devastating reduction in much needed affordable housing.

At this juncture, why is the City Council contemplating actions that would serve to impose additional costs upon rental housing providers?
A rent registry, and any expansion thereof, is intrusive, an infringement of Fourth Amendment constitutional rights, extremely costly, and administratively burdensome on small business rental property owners in particular. The Association is strongly opposed to the expansion of the rent registry to non-rentcontrolled units whether it be accomplished through a ballot measure or adoption of an ordinance and strongly urges the City Council to reject any further expansion of the applicability of the City’s rent registry to all rental units.
• Owner Occupancy – Extension of Residency Requirement from One to Three Years As stated herein, due to the pandemic and government mandates over the past more than two years, rental property owners have endured dire financial challenges and have faced loss of full-time employment, loss of rental income, contracted, or cared for a loved one who has been ill with the virus. Some rental housing providers may now be in a situation whereby they must seek housing in their investment property.

The Association is opposed to the extension of the required length of residency from the current oneyear period to three years. While the City’s Staff report notes that “the good faith requirement to intend to live in the unit for a certain period of time serves as evidence of bad faith in an enforcement proceeding if the owner or relative moves out before the requisite time period is up.”, it provides no rationale for extending the current occupancy period or any issues that would warrant contemplation of any change. In fact, the report notes that “more typical is the re-rental around two years or later.” The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us all how truly unpredictable life is. We all make plans for the future based on the knowledge of today. Owners seek to occupy their units for a number of reasons in good Item 11.B
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faith that they will reside in the unit for the next year and potentially longer as demonstrated by the data provided in the Staff report. Over the course of three years, circumstances can significantly change in unexpected ways as we have all witnessed during the pandemic. Accordingly, owners should not be obliged to commit to residing in the unit as their primary residence for three years, a lengthy period of time to which realistically no one can guarantee that their circumstances will not dramatically change and necessitate that they move. Moreover, there is no available data or information provided evidencing a widespread issue to warrant amending the current owner occupancy requirements. We urge the City Council to reject advancement of this proposed ballot measure.
• Board Authority to Deny Rent Increases During States of Emergency The Association is strongly opposed to the proposed ballot measure which would grant the City’s Rent Control Board autonomous discretion to freeze rent increases during any state of emergency without qualification.

The COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented event and one that resulted in government response that many would contend exceeded the scope of local emergency authority. The proposed ballot measure far exceeds the emergency powers that localities have exercised during the pandemic by providing the Board sole discretion to eliminate rent increases during any state of emergency regardless of a direct impact to Santa Monica residents. Accordingly, we strongly urge the City Council to reject advancement of this ballot measure proposal.

The Association has continually advocated for reasonable and equitable solutions. Unbalanced regulations such as those being proposed merely compel housing providers, particularly the small business, independent owners who have been the city’s provider of naturally occurring affordable housing, out of business through sale or foreclosure, and ultimately a further erosion of available rental housing occurs that adds to the city’s housing shortages. After more than four decades of similar regulations, Santa Monica has done little to solve its housing affordability and availability issues – it is time that the City Council puts the City on a new path towards achieving these critical objectives.

Thank you for your time and consideration of these matters. If you have any questions, please call me at (213) 384-4131; Ext. 309 or contact me via electronic mail at [email protected].

Very truly yours,
Danielle Leidner-Peretz
Danielle Leidner-Peretz
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From: Elizabeth Lerer <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 2:16 PM
To: Phil Brock; Gleam Davis; Oscar de la Torre; Sue Himmelrich; Kristin McCowan; Lana Negrete; Christine Parra
Cc: Council Mailbox; [email protected]; Council Mailbox; councilmtgitems Subject: Item #1 & Item # 11-B. Rent Increases - Protect our Tenant Community

EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor and City Council Members,
Many rent control tenants have not yet received notice of their specific rent increase amount and are unaware of what their rent will be increased to and due on September 1st.

Many will be shocked. How many will find a 6% rent increase impossible to budget for? Please act carefully and expeditiously to protect our tenant community now.

1. Limit this year’s increase to no more than 3%.

2. Place a measure on November’s ballot to amend the Rent Control Charter that will give the city the ability to better address tenant protections during extreme or unusual circumstances.

Please figure out a way to use every power you can muster to limit this year’s rent increase for our community members in rent controlled units to no more than 3%. Please do this before the September 1st increase goes into effect. Enact emergency powers, or whatever is at your disposal to protect tenants before it is too late.

The 6% rent increase could very well force residents to move out of Santa Monica. Prudent people know spending more than 50% of your income on housing is not wise. Responsible residents recognizing that this outrageous 6% outlying increase will become a permanent and compounding component of the MARs will leave Santa Monica. The vacated units will then be rented at market rate. Will longtime tenants, who have nowhere to go or cannot afford moving expenses, be forced to forgo healthcare, medications, food and other essential items? City of Los Angeles froze rents during the pandemic. Santa Monica did not. Our neighboring cities of Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Culver City, and Inglewood have decided on increases of no more than 3%. Oakland’s City Council recently enacted an ordinance to limit their rent increase to no more than 3%.

An increase of no more than 3% is what other California jurisdictions have determined to be fair to both the property owners and tenants.

Regarding a proposed ballot measure to amend the Rent Control Charter, staff has recommended "Authorize the Rent Control Board to impose a rent freeze during a declared emergency.” This will not give the city officials the ability to mitigate future rent spikes in extreme conditions that threaten the public good and public health, like sky high inflation.

The City of Santa Monica needs to give itself the ability to respond to situations that may not be an "official declared emergency” such as extreme economic conditions or other unforeseen circumstances or a combination of unforeseeable occurrences.

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2 Please find a path to protect our tenant community and particularly our diminishing longtime rent control tenants.

These are precarious times and we are looking to you dear City Council Members and your direction to save us from the proverbial cliff.

Tenants teeteringly await the tack you take.

Thank you,
Elizabeth Lerer
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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

EXTERNAL
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: NSA <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 10:59 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Item No. 11B -- Expanded Rent Registry

EXTERNAL
Santa Monica has been called the People’s Republic of Santa Monica since 1979. That is because, like the Communist Party in China, the government likes to violate normal American Constitutional Rights. The City uses its massive tax base to finance lawsuits against any individual resident who tries to challenge them. I have seen many good people crushed by the City government. I know that an FBI investigation was close to being opened on what goes on in Santa Monica.

Do we want a system like China or Russia, where the government decides who can live where and who can go out and obtain food or conduct their business? Shanghai has been locked down for months. People are killing themselves in China. I’m personally aware of about 20 businesses that were destroyed during Santa Monica’s Covid lockdowns. Do we want to give Santa Monica more information and arbitrary power over its citizens? Santa Monica has no right to collect information on who rents what place or lives where in Santa Monica. This is particularly true where people are living in buildings built after 1979 and not subject to Santa Monica’s Rent Control Law. Just because Santa Monica wants to social engineer the residents (translation: acquire real estate for organized crime), is not a reason for wasting money collecting all the information the city is already collecting.

I know that many long term homeowners in Santa Monica would create inexpensive rental units on their property, but they don’t do it. This is because they fear losing their property rights to a resident they can never evict, even when the resident is violent or doesn’t pay rent for years. Homeowners that have to be absent, cannot even rent their home out without losing rights and having to pay legal fees and massive potential fines that would cost them their property.

It’s time to stop the power base controlling the City of Santa Monica. We already have a state rent control law. There is no need for a local apparatus. The Rent Control Board should be phased out over the next five years as that will save the city a lot of money. This money can then be used to subsidize elderly and disabled tenants that can no longer afford normal rent raises. For example, why should one wealthy person have a two bedroom apartment that is subsidized by the rent control law? Shouldn’t these people be paying a tax on the difference between what they’re paying in rent and what 80% of the market rate for the apartment would be? This tax could help house the homeless.

There is no way to sustain the current rent control system. I have seen rent control tenants lose their homes and the Rent Control Board do nothing to protect them. Residents that are encouraged to build their lives around their low rent apartments, often find that after they’ve made many compromises in their lives (such as not moving to pursue higher paying jobs) that they are no longer in a position to afford to save themselves when the small landlord must sell out to a large developer. There is also no reason that small landlords should be driven out of business to help support the lifestyle of well off tenants.

The city of Santa Monica has to stop all the red tape that it likes to create. They also have to stop the blackmail under the table. Then we would have a lot more affordable housing in this city, because potential landlords would not have to pay legal fees and fines just to rent out part of their home or garage for a year or two. Without the Rent Control Board, what we lose is simply the right of the well to do tenant to hold unto their unfairly low rent in perpetuity. Again, truly needy tenants cannot hold onto their apartments—but the well to do are able to weather the bumps in the road and continue to profit unfairly at society’s expense.

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June 26, 2022
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.B
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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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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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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 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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Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents From: scott&konni eggers <[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]> Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents

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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]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 4:23 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
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!

EXTERNAL
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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Matt Eads
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Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 2:53 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: Adopt SMRR's to 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%.

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EXTERNAL
I sincerely hope Council adopts this..we need to require all units to be rented or reduced in price until they are ... if not, then to be fined and not a slap on the wrist. Council has failed to stop our town from being a tourist destination and real estate flip for the rich while ignoring the need for affordable units. 10% affordable in new builds is simply not enough, while Below Market units require more minimum income than many have. We must protect our town and stop the control of it by developers and our ill‐run State.

Please support all here. Support the RCB with all they are telling us we need to do to protect RC tenants. Apply and emergency cap now and please change the Charter for the future. We were once known as a tough city that protected renters. Thanks to our Councils past owned by developers who are aided by the Hardings and other land use attorneys ..that has all but disappeared. Please step in to protect what is left.

Thank you,
Danielle Charney
Resident since April Fools 1982

B. Adoption of Resolutions for Proposed Ballot Measures on the November 8, 2022 Election Amending Articles XVIII and XXIII of the City Charter
Recommended Actions
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt the attached resolution (Attachment A) placing a measure on the November 8, 2022 ballot that would amend Article XXIII of the City Charter to establish a rent registry for Non Item 11.B
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2 Rent Controlled Rental Units; or, alternatively, approve the first reading of an ordinance to establish a rent registry for Nonrentcontrolled Rental Units (Attachment B).

2. If the resolution placing an amendment to Article XXIII of the City Charter on the November 8, 2022, ballot (Attachment A) is approved, authorize City Councilmembers to file written arguments for or against the measure and direct the City Attorney to prepare an impartial analysis.

3. Adopt the attached resolution (Attachment C) placing a measure on the November 8, 2022, ballot that would amend Article XVIII of the City Charter to  Revise requirements for owners to evict tenants for owner-occupancy;  Revise election procedures;
 Revise Commissioner term limits; and
 Authorize the Rent Control Board to impose a rent freeze during a declared emergency.

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To: Santa Monica City Council members
Item 11‐B Proposed Ballot Measures – July 12, 2022 Meeting

  I urge City Council to reduce the September 1st rent increase to no more than 3% in concert with neighboring cities, the Cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood.

 I urge City Council to support a November ballot measure to limit rent increases to no more than 3% annually. Give City Council emergency powers to control future increases as needed.  As a retiree and a Santa Monica renter with a fixed income, a 6% rent increase is unfair. My rent has increased $400 during the time I have lived in my current apartment. With inflation as it is, and the increased cost of living,
o A 6% rent increase would negatively impact my life.

Judith Samuel

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Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 3:32 PM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: Item 11‐B Proposed Ballot Measures

EXTERNAL
Hi‐
As a Santa Monica resident for over 15 years, I urge you to:
‐ Reduce the September 1st rent increase to no more than 3%, in alignment with our neighbors. ‐ Support a November ballot measure to limit rent increases to no more than 3% annually and enable City Council emergency powers to control future increases, as needed.

An increase of 6% would impact my residency options and could force me to move out of a city I love so much. Don't make me move to the Valley!
Thanks for your consideration.

Best,
Ashley
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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-B (Adoption of Resolutions for Proposed Ballot Measures on the November 8, 2022 Election Amending Articles XVIII and XXIII of the City Charter) Dear Hon. Councilmembers,
Yesterday, I sent you a letter regarding Agenda Item 11-A, which highlighted the ongoing eviction and gentrification crisis in the Pico Neighborhood. I called attention to the fact that many of my neighbors are barely hanging on, and some are paying as much as 60-75% of their income on rent. In that letter, I urged you all to vote against placing the proposed Comprehensive Real Property Transfer Tax Measure on the ballot, as it will risk blocking crucial antigentrification and anti-displacement 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).

Today, I urge you to support the Charter amendments that have been proposed under Agenda Item 11-B and place those matters on the ballot.1 These Charter amendments will provide critical legal pathways for protecting vulnerable renters, and they will help ensure that the Rent Control Board is given the tools it needs to enforce tenant protection measures that stop gentrification and displacement.

Many Pico Neighborhood residents (and residents of other neighborhoods) simply cannot afford the 6% adjustment for rent-controlled units. I applaud the efforts of the Rent Control Board to advocate for all options to lower the annual adjustment, and I hope that this City Council will use all available legal powers to lower the annual adjustment to 3%. I hope you will support the growing chorus of resident voices who are calling for a Charter amendment that will give the Rent Board greater flexibility in adopting annual adjustments.

I have spoken to many community members who have often had to sacrifice meals, healthcare, or other essentials to pay for their rent. This year’s 6% adjustment will force residents to make even more sacrifices, and for some it will simply make their rents completely unaffordable.

Please take action now before any more City residents are pushed out of their homes.

Best,
Ellis Raskin
1 Alternatively, the City Council can approve the first reading of an ordinance to establish a rent registry for Non-rent-controlled Rental Units. I urge you to approve that ordinance now to save the public expense of placing the item on the ballot.

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Subject: FW: 7/12 MEETING ITEMS 1 & 11-B
From: phillis dudick <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 10:43 PM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: 7/12 MEETING ITEMS 1 & 11‐B

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Honorable Mayor Himmelrich and City Council Members:

We are currently seeing the effects of our Draconian Rent Control Charter, which does not permit the Rent Control Board authority to mitigate, discuss or confer with regard to rent increases under "any" circumstances, regardless how urgent or dire the situation.

The amendment placed on the ballot in 2012 to cap rent increases at 6% has now been tested for the first time and we see the coming disastrous results for many in our Santa Monica renter community. While neighboring cities, as well as the City of Los Angeles, froze rents for 2 years during the pandemic our Rent Control Board's hands were tied to make any adjustments whatsoever.

The mechanism in our Rent Control Charter that triggered a 6% rent increase at 8% inflation was unknown, untested and has taken our renter community by surprise during a period of highest inflation in some 40 years following a once in a hundred year worldwide Pandemic no less.

We come to our City Councilmembers to ask you to use emergency powers to bring this 6% increase to a level of no more than 3% for this year, in concert with neighboring cities, to protect renters from undue financial stress and in some cases even homelessness.

Secondly, to protect our renters in the future, it is important to make some changes to the Rent Control Charter by giving flexibility to respond to events, as yet unknown, and beyond our control, It is also important for the Rent Control Board to have the authority to freeze rents in a declared emergency. And it is important for City Council to consider lowering the 6% cap in an effort to do everything possible to prevent an economic emergency in the future.

The time to act is NOW. The time to prevent housing insecurity is NOW. The time to reevaluate the current Rent Control Charter and make amendments that meet the moment in today's changing world is NOW. And the time is NOW to protect our renter community from the hardships of a 6% rent increase September 1st.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Phillis Dudick
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Cc: councilmtgitems
Subject: Items 11-A and 11-B

EXTERNAL
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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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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From: CARRIE WEIL <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 10:06 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: 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 10:20 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!

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]>
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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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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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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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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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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 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 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
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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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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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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.B
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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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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.B
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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
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.

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.B
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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
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.

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.B
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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)
to gleam.davis, phil.brock, info, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negr ete, christine.parra, council
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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Pamela Rivera Fri, Jul 8, 8:03 PM (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.

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Katherine Goethel <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 5:51 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.

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)
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.

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)
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.

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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Suzanne Joffe <[email protected]>
Fri, Jul 8, 3:11 PM
(4 days ago)
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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.B
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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)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
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.B
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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)
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 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.B
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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)
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.

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)
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.

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

Santa Monica, CA 90403
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ashley farrell <[email protected]> Fri, Jul 8, 11:48 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.

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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)
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.

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)
to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], sue.himm [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], christine.parra @smgov.net, [email protected], [email protected]
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.B
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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
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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.B
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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.B
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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.

I love to understand how and who determined the 6% increase. In my 15+ years as a Santa Monican renter, I've never had an increase close to 6% and during a pandemic and recession? Item 11.B
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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
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.

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.B
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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
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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.B
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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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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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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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funding for ongoing and emergency rent subsidy programs. Please help protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

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
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.B
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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.B
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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)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, 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.

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
ago)
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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.B
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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.B
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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.B
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Carole Phillips <[email protected]> Thu, Jun 30, 6:37 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.

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)
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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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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)
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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, 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)
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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:

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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)
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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 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
[email protected]
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)
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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.

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)
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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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Troy Pozirekides <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 3:24 PM (13 days ago)
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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)
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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 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)
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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.B
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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)
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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.

Michele De La Riva <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 29, 2:25 PM (13 days ago)
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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)
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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.

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)
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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.B
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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)
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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)
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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 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)
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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’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)
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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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Ellen Knight Wed, Jun 29, 1:44 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 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.B
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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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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.B
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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)
to phil.brock, gleam.davis, oscar.delatorre, sue.himmelrich, kristin.mccowan, lana.negrete, christine.parra, council, info
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)
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.

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)
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.

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)
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.

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.B
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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.

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)
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
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)
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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.

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.B
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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.B
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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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From: Council Mailbox
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:40 AM
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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Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:40 AM
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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Santa Monica City Council,
We, the tenants of Santa Monica urge you to reduce the September 1 rent increase to no more than 3% in concert with neighboring cities.

We also urge you to support a November ballot measure to limit rent increases to no more than 3% annually and to give City Council emergency powers to control future increases.

A 6% rent increase would have a negative impact on my personal circumstances. It would make it harder for myself and many tenants in the neighborhood to continue living here. If we care about preserving our community we should keep it affordable for the people who live here.

Thank you,
Terrence Rutledge
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Hello,
I would like to:
‐ urge City Council to reduce the September 1 rent increase to no more than 3% in concert with neighboring cities. ‐ urge City Council to support a November ballot measure to limit rent increases to no more than 3% annually.

A 6% rent increase would personally impact me as I also need to support older members of my family impacted by COVID and the current economic turmoil.

Thank you for your consideration,
Sebastien Ballesteros
132 San Vicente Blvd, Apt.C, Santa Monica, CA 90402
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Hello,
As a renter in Santa Monica, I, along with my neighbors, would like to express the following:

1. We URGE City Council to reduce the September 1 rent increase to NO MORE than 3% in concert with neighboring cities. The surrounding cities, such as Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Culver City, and Inglewood have limited their rent increases to a 3%. Oakland City Council recently put in place an ordinance to limit increases to 3%.

2. We URGE City Council to support the November ballot measure to limit rent increases to no more than 3% annually. We want to give City Council emergency powers to control future measures as needed.

3. A 6% City rent increase would personally impact many of our renters. I personally am a young adult in the early stages of my career, trying to make a living and home for myself in Santa Monica. My peers and I would hate to be priced out of this great city where we work and live. During the pandemic Los Angeles froze rents (no increases). Santa Monica did not freeze rents during the pandemic. Now this year’s rent increase is three times last year’s increase! Kind Regards,
Ed (Wilmont)
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To the Santa Monica City Council
I am currently a Santa Monica Renter. As a person with a disability, I greatly enjoy living in an accepting, pleasant community like Santa Monica and wish to continue to do so. I urge the City Council to reduce the September 12 rent increase to no more than 3% in concert with neighboring cities. I also urge the City Council to support a November ballot measure to limit rent increases to no more than 3% annually with emergency power to control future increases as needed.

Very best,
Ben Anderson
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Please reject these proposed items.

There was limited public input at the RCB on these items because so many issues were lumped together with one 3 minute opportunity to speak. I know many, myself included, who figured adequate input would be at City Council. Now all of the issues are lumped together again, and in an Administrative Item instead of one which would allow the opportunity for public input.

This is not good governance. It’s a tactic that has historically been used to push through measures at the last minute. There is little time to evaluate the proposals in order to meet a county deadline for the November election. Issues that require amendments to City Charters are significant, and significant issues should be on the ballot in presidential election years where there is high voter turn out, not in mid‐term elections, which are low voter turn out years.

I am a retired real estate consultant, having worked 20 years in both the public and private sectors. I have surveyed all of the multi‐tenant apartment buildings built in Santa Monica between 1980 and 2008. I reside in an owner‐occupied triplex and I am knowledgeable about the stock of duplexes and triplexes in the city.

Regarding the proposed rental registry of non‐rent controlled units:

The RCB staff report for non‐controlled rental units presents incomplete information which does not offer a full picture of what their proposal would entail.

The proposed rental registry recreates information already readily accessible at the city. They want landlords and tenants to pay to create a database of information most of which they already have.

The staff report neglects to report a range of likely registration fees. It is disingenuous at best to say the RCB has not evaluated this. Their staff report lists cities with rent registries so they certainly know what the fees are and what would be likely at our city.

Voters in non‐rent controlled buildings are entitled to know what it will cost them to have their units covered in a rent registry. They will be required to pay 50% of the annual fee, and they should be advised of a likely range of fees before they are asked to vote on this.

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 The RCB staff report makes no reference to the number of non‐rent controlled units in the city to be covered under the registry.  Why?  At an RCB meeting following the presentation of the initial staff report, Ms. Foster said the number is about 11,000.  So they knew the number but neglected to include it in the staff report. (The 11,000 number is available from the Housing Department in their Annual Consolidated Report.  I have heard Andy Angle present housing data for post 1980s units by year constructed with the number of units, etc.)  Of the 11,000 non‐rent controlled units in the city, approximately 1,100 are in owner‐occupied duplexes and triplexes and approximately 10,000 are in apartments built subsequent to 1980.  I believe the number of units built 2000 to 2020 in downtown buildings is around 5,000.  The remaining 5,000 would be in buildings built between 1980 and 2000.  Again, all of this information is available from the Housing Department and the Planning Department.
 The RCB is proposing a rental registry that recreates information already readily accessible at the city.  They want landlords and tenants to pay to create a database of information most of which they already have. This information includes address, owner of record, year built, number of units, and unit mix, i.e. number of 1 bedroom and 2 bedroom units, number of designated affordable units, and on‐site parking.  The RCB says the registration needs to provide amenities and Ms. Foster stated in a meeting the RCB recognizes the importance of regulating amenities. These amenities are public information already.  I can tell you from surveying all of the Santa Monica buildings that amenities are uniform by the era of construction.  Buildings built in the 1980s all have the same amenities.  Same for buildings built in the 1990s, 2000s and beyond.  These newer units have microwaves, dishwashers, stove and refrigerator, carpet and window coverings.  Some property owners don’t provide a refrigerator.  So what amenities do they need to know about to regulate?  In a non‐rent controlled unit, if a property owner neglects to replace carpet or window coverings, or has old run down appliances, a prospective tenant will simply go elsewhere.  During the 2018 discussion for Proposition 10 (Statewide Rent Control that failed), there was a public hearing where rent control was proposed for units built pre‐1995.  Tenants in non‐rent controlled buildings spoke in opposition, saying they did not want to be rent controlled.
 The staff report says that it would also provide utility meter readings which would help them evaluate housing needs.  This makes no sense since buildings built 1990 and later are separately metered for water, and gas and electricity have been separately meeting pre‐and post 1980.  The owner‐occupied duplexes and triplexes have commonly metered water but nearly all are separately metered for gas and electricity. So their utility reporting request would appear to apply only to water meter readings in owner occupied duplexes and triplexes.  In 2008, I surveyed all of the new downtown apartment buildings pertinent to a law suit.  I don’t recall the exact number, and it was significantly less than today but it took one day to walk in and out of buildings, see a typical unit, and verify the public information with the on‐site manager.  In addition to the public information of record, I obtained rental rates, vacancy information, turnover information and characteristics of renters, I.e. who they are, where they work, why they chose downtown Santa Monica.  That type of primary research from survey is what is useful for evaluating housing characteristics and needs.  It is routine during a rental rate survey to obtain rental incentives offered, i.e. one month free with a one year lease.  Rental incentives are typical in the new buildings but they are not reflected in the listings.  If a new one bedroom unit has a contract rent of $3,000 but the tenant gets one month free, then the “effective” rental rate is $2,750 ($3000 x 11 months paid divided by 12 months occupied = $2,750).  This information gives you a much more accurate picture of the market.  The proposed rental registry will incorporate a vacancy rate.  Property owners have historically asked the RCB to calculate a vacancy rate in the rent controlled neighborhoods which they have declined to do or to specify why.  The assumption was because the city prohibits apartment buildings from subdividing into condos unless the city’s vacancy rate exceeds 5% for a period of 90 days or more.  SMRR opposes apartment buildings Item 11.B
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 At a Planning Commission meeting pre‐Covid, Shawn Landress reported the vacancy rate in the residential neighborhoods was 2%.  The source of this information is not known.  On the subject of vacancy rates, the city neglects to publish the number of vacant and “off market” units, i.e units that have been held off market for several years.  At a SMRR convention pre‐Covid, it was acknowledged to be around 1,000 units; 1,000 units is 3.7% of the city’s 27,000 rent controlled units.  When added to the 2% reported vacancy rate, the accurate vacancy rate is 5.7%, exceeding the 5% required to apply for a condo conversion, Add to this the vacancy rate in the new downtown buildings, reported over the years to be between 8% and 12%, the blended vacancy rate is far in excess of the 5% that qualifies under the city rules to subdivide into condos.
 The city has selectively applied the vacancy rate to meet the desired result.  The State has required for many years that city maintain a vacancy rate of 5% which is the minimum required to create a competitive market for rental rates.  So the city has chosen to use a blended vacancy rate that includes downtown even though the markets are entirely different from one another, i.e. a tenant who wishes to rent downtown is entirely different than a tenant who wishes to rent in an older residential neighborhood. The Housing Element states the city generally maintains a vacancy rate of 5% because it suits the needs of the State, but the city chooses not to present the accurate vacancy rate that exceeds the 5% because they don’t want subdivisions into condos.  The proposed rental registry changes none of this.  Accurate information is what will help with assessing our housing needs.  There is no competitive market in the rent controlled residential neighborhoods and it is most certainly a huge factor in ever increasing rental rates.  Using an example of a 1 bedroom unit, a tenant can choose to live in an older older building in Wilmont for $2500 or they can pay $3000 or more in a new downtown building.   The $2500 unit isn’t worth it, but there are so few of them and the only other choice is to pay significantly more downtown, so the tenant pays it.  It’s an either/or because the city’s housing policies have created a bifurcated housing market.
 The RCB frequently compares Santa Monica to Culver City.  Culver City’s rent registry is an ordinance that sunsets in 10 years and it applies to only rent controlled units.  Rent controlled units exclude units built after 1995.

Please reject the proposal for a rent registry. The staff report asks you to approve one of two choices: placing a charter amendment on the ballot or approving an ordinance for a first reading. Neither is appropriate. The RCB presented incomplete information. You cannot expect complete public input on a proposed ordinance where the public has been presented with incomplete information regarding the proposal, and there is insufficient time for public input on an ordinance.

During the most recent RCB meeting regarding the proposed rent registry, a caller stated literally: “No one cares about rent control anymore. The dirty little secret is the city is not enforcing AirBnB restrictions in residential neighborhoods.” She then went on to cite the revolving door in her own neighborhood. The residents of Santa Monica would be better served by the City enforcing the regulations they already have before forcing residents to pay to make new ones.

Regarding Expanding Term Limits for RCB commissioners. Please reject. When the Rent Control Charter was adopted, there was a specific reason why the RCB members were term limited while the City Council was not. I don’t recall the exact reason and I was unable to research it at the library because services are still limited. The RCB attorney knows the reason and it should be made public.

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Sincerely,
Laurel Overman
953 7th Street ‐90403
(310) 451‐1181
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EXTERNAL
Hi ‐ we're renters, and we've been pamphleted to ask us to ask you to override the 6% rent increase.

We're fine with it ‐ it's less than the current 8%+ rate of inflation. Increases have been less than inflation for decades. Rent Control means we still pay less than market rate ‐ which affords us the chance be able to contribute to the community.

Also, we much prefer the "Sue" ballot measure to the much weaker and less helpful "Phil" version. The "Phil" version is a distraction at best, and not it the city's long‐term best interest.

Thank You for reading this far, and Thank You for your Service ‐ Ben Swett
Amy Anderson
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Hello,
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%.

This would be an extreme hardship on me because it will double the increase I receive. My rent goes up so much because of all the taxes that go along with the 3%. I can’t even fathom what it will be with 6%. Already I’m having difficulty because prices have inflated with food and gas. I’m very distressed about this Please help me and stop this from happening.

Please protect Santa Monica residents and Santa Monica values today.

Thank you,
Diane Brand
220 San Vicente Blvd #502
Santa Monica, CA 90402
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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]> Cc: Caroline Torosis <[email protected]>
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Council:

It’s been a wild time of record inflation and much terror in the community at the prospect of a 6% rent increase. While no one wishes to begrudge the general returns of property owners, the city in which they own a building has rent control. The courts have long upheld both rent control and the notion of a “fair return”. After 23 years of Costa Hawkins, the new cap should be at 3%, not 6%. We would still use the GA to calculate rents, which in the last 20+ years has averaged 1.9%, but now would have a total cap of 3% maximum. It’s high time for a GA change, and this crisis has brought it to the forefront. I wish I’d had a more firm handle on the solutions from the beginning of May when we got the numbers, but we’ve all arrived at this conclusion now. 3% GA cap as part and parcel of our RCB measure.

Regarding item 11B, please support the Charter Amendment requests of the Rent Control Board. These are common sense and good government changes. Regarding the term limits change, it’s only natural for the terms to be of equal length to your own and our state legislature. The very glamorous position of rent board commissioner at a $75 per month stipend is not a powerful position. It’s a position of caring and of stewardship of the homes of our friends, neighbors, customers and students. The exact same reasons you will all serve for 3 terms is the same reason we feel that this change is necessary and reasonable.

Regarding the competing ballot measures, I fear that the public safety measure could have an unintended consequence of even more unfettered development. If we don’t reasonably meet our RHNA goals, developers will have carte blanche for density in our city. The citizen‐signed measure would provide much needed funds for meeting those goals and for rental assistance for our most vulnerable.

I know this will be a long night for you all. Thank you for your service. > Anastasia Foster
> Commissioner, Santa Monica Rent Control Board Meals on Wheels West > Board of Directors CADEM Credentials Committee Co‐Chair Item 11.B
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Hello City Councilmembers,
I am urging you to please reverse the inflationary 6% rent increase on rent‐controlled units.

I have lived in a rent controlled unit at 153 San Vicente Blvd since July 2016 and wish to make this my forever home.

Choosing this apartment was largely based on its affordability and the knowledge that the City of Santa Monica has such a strong track record of protecting tenant rights.

Despite the fact that this is considered an "inflationary" rent increase, it is unreasonable to suddenly impose this burden on renters when inflationary wage increases are not posed on employers. I, for one, have never received a 6% wage increase in the 6 years that I have lived in my unit, however I have been laid off by 3 separate companies during the same period. I am budgeting for a wedding in February 2023 and have already had to make sharp adjustments due to covid related financial hardships. A 6% rent increase would be far too much for me. I am confident that I am not the only tenant who has faced financial hardship in recent years, and many of us will be unfairly forced out of our homes due to this sharp increase in MAR.

Please repeal this rent increase so I can afford to live in the home that I love. Thank you so much for the consideration.

Best Regards,
Dylan Harris
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To City Council Members,
I am writing to urge you most wholeheartedly to reduce the September 1, 2022 rent increase to remain at 2% (Maximum Allowable Rent) and in no way surpass 3% as the neighboring cities are doing.

These past years have been brutal on me. I have lived in Santa Monica since 2012 and have rented all this time. My apartment is my home, not just a stop‐over on the way to something bigger. I am priced out of the housing market here.

It’s been a hard few years: losing my business, dealing with the devastating ongoing impact of having long COVID, dealing with harassment by my landlord, and just trying to make it through. Rent is already incredibly high and a huge stress.

Every year possible the maximum amount of rent increase has been applied by my landlord. Opening up the door to 6% will undoubtedly mean we’ll be outpaced within a couple years. Having 6% rent increase on the books will make it impossible for me to continue living in Santa Monica. In fact I don’t know anyone who can absorb that.

I am baffled by the constant commitment to end homelessness and the contradictory constant increase in rents making housing more and more out of reach.

Please support a ballot measure to limit increases to 2% but definitely no more than 3% annually and have City Council emergency powers to control future increase as needed in the future.

Please protect the families and residents of this town, our residents, our tenant community.

Thank you for your time and community service,
Laura Kowalski
153 San Vicente Blvd
4G
Santa Monica, CA 90402
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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: 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%

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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
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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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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!

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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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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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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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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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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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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!

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Item 11-B Proposed Ballot Measures
From: Margo Epstein <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 1:11 PM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: Item 11‐B Proposed Ballot Measures

EXTERNAL
I am writing to Urge City Council to

1. Reduce the September 1 2022 rent increase to a maximum of 3%.

2. Support the November ballot measure to limit rent increases to no more than 3% annually.

3. Retain City Council emergency powers to control future increases as needed WHY ?
A. This will keep us at parity with other neighboring cities.

B. Honor the will of the residents of Santa Monica who voted for and received status as a rent controlled city.

C. Recognizes the burden of the extreme increases currently being forced on consumers everywhere. The Market Economy is enabling corporations to increase costs far beyond the fair increases caused by constraint in supply.

D. Landlords who have owned multifamily units for decades have not seen increases in the interest rate on their loan unless they have refinanced to a les favorable rate. They deserve a fair price for their units, but they should not be entitled to raise rates just because the market economy allows.

Finally, we have 19 units in our building, 415 San Vicente Blvd. Santa Monica 90402. Five units (26%) are rented to people who have been here 20+ years. The Rent control has protected them, as it was designed to do. Most units, (mine included) are at market price and climbing. This building was built in the late 1950’s. I assume that the owners have experienced consistent interest rates throughout the term of the loan. Over the term, I doubt the owners have experienced an increase of 100% on interest rates which is equivalent to a 6% rent increase for renters.

Maintaining the cap of 3% in a rent controlled city is the right thing to do. I hope our city council members will do what they were elected to do. Listen to their constituency, find solutions and fight hard to create a community that is inclusive and financially viable for its residents.

Thank you for your consideration.

Margo Epstein
Director of Sales and Marketing
[email protected]
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Subject: FW: Item 11-B
From: Arlene Hopkins <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 1:12 PM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: Item 11‐B

EXTERNAL
Honorable Council Members:

After conversing with dozens of my neighbors, most of whom are renters, I write to let you know that almost all have expressed support for our City Council to take the following actions.  To reduce the September 1 rent increase to no more than 3%.  To support a November ballot measure to limit rent increases to maximum 3% annually.  To support resident initiatives to purchase our rental homes and convert them to permanently affordable, resident controlled limited equity cooperatives.

Thank you for your consideration.

Arlene Hopkins
Renter
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Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! From: zachary chamberlin <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 1:21 PM
To: Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Council Mailbox <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Smrr Info <[email protected]> Subject: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents!

EXTERNAL
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.

Best,
Zachary Chamberlin
C: (310) 402-7316
[email protected]
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Subject: FW: subject line 11-B
From: janet westad <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 12:15 PM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: subject line 11‐B

EXTERNAL
Regarding item 11-B, proposed ballot measure..

I contest the proposed Rent Control Increase of 6% in Santa Monica. I have been a long tome loyal tenant, 48 years.

I have never demanded renovations in or around my apartment. I have paid for any upgrades, out of pocket.

I will be 69 yrs and retired. I live off 2 income checks. I have never missed a rent check..in full payment. I do not bother anyone.

I actually help my neighbors, that cannot. Trash, mail; groceries. I am a model tenant. A for sure rent.

I have had to downsize on all utilities. I am not wasteful. I am your BEST tenant.

Please don't increase my rent. If you have to.. please 3%. Not 6%.

I also help my handicapped sister.

My address..156 San Vicente #30, Overcliff Manor Apts.

I need your help now. Thank You
Janet Westad
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Subject: FW: Protect Renters Against Unreasonable Rents! From: Jan Libby <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 12:13 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
This increase is insane. At a time of incredible inflation, you've decided to increase the rent on people who are already just getting by in favor of helping landlords. Seriously, wtf? 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 the elderly and hard‐working lower‐income Santa Monica residents today! Thank you.

Jan Libby
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Subject: FW: 11-B Proposed Ballot Measure
From: Bicky <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 11:35 AM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: 11‐B Proposed Ballot Measure

EXTERNAL

Oakland City Council recently put in place an ordinance to limit increases to 3%.

2. We URGE City Council to support November ballot measure to limit rent increases to no more than 3% annually. We want to give City Council emergency powers to control future measures as needed.

3. 6% City rent increase would personally impact many of our renters, since most of us are retired and living on a fixed income. During the pandemic Los Angeles froze rents (no increases). Santa
Monica did not freeze rents during the pandemic. Now this year’s rent increase is three times last year’s increase! Kind Regards,
B. Zivkovic
'Your Santa Monica Neighbors"
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Subject: FW: 11-B Prpposed Ballot Measure
From: Dijana Marjanovic <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 11:40 AM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: 11‐B Prpposed Ballot Measure

EXTERNAL

1. We URGE City Council to reduce the September 1 rent
increase to NO MORE than 3% in concert with neighboring cities. The surrounding cities, such as Beverly
Hills, West Hollywood, Culver City, and
Inglewood have limited their rent increases to a
3%. Oakland City Council recently put in place an
ordinance to limit increases to 3%.

2. We URGE City Council to support November ballot measure to limit rent increases to no more than 3% annually. We want to give City Council emergency powers to control future measures as needed.

3. 6% City rent increase would personally impact many of our renters, since most of us are retired and living on a fixed income. During the pandemic Los Angeles froze
rents (no increases). Santa Monica did not freeze
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3 rents during the pandemic. Now this year’s rent
increase is three times last year’s increase!
Kind Regards, Dijana and Jovan Marjanovic
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Subject: FW: 11-B Proposed Ballot Measure - My Thoughts From: Eric N <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 11:55 AM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: 11‐B Proposed Ballot Measure ‐ My Thoughts

EXTERNAL
I am so concerned about the upcoming increase & how it is going to effect our wonderful community. I am the nephew of Warren Malfer, who several of you may know, and I want to stay in Santa Monica to help keep his legacy alive. Please see my points below:

1. I URGE City Council to reduce the September 1 rent increase to NO MORE than 3% in concert with neighboring cities. The surrounding cities, such as Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Culver City, and Inglewood have limited their rent increases to a 3%. Oakland City Council recently put in place an ordinance to limit increases to 3%.

2. I URGE City Council to support November ballot measure to limit rent increases to no more than 3% annually. We want to give City Council emergency powers to control future measures as needed.

Now this year’s rent increase is three times last year’s increase! Call me direct at 913-704-9241 to speak further about these points. A 6% increase CAN NOT HAPPEN TO THIS CITY.

All the best,
Eric Novelli
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Subject: FW: 11-B Proposed Ballot Measure
From: Carol Trussell <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 11:22 AM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: 11‐B Proposed Ballot Measure

EXTERNAL
Dear Council Members
I am a long time renter in Santa Monica and I oppose Ballot Measure 11‐B.

I live in an historic property but one where the owners refuse to make improvements. Over the years, I have replaced broken windows, replaced appliances to name a few things. I believe that a 6% increase is unreasonable.

I implore you to reverse the six percent increase to annual rent. This figure is significantly higher than the cap imposed by surrounding municipalities
Thank you.

Carol Trussell
302 San Vicente, Santa Monica, CA 90402
Cell: 323/707‐2204

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From: Council Mailbox
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:47 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Item 11-B Proposed Ballot Measures
From: Lisa F Frantz <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 10:29 AM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: Item 11‐B Proposed Ballot Measures

EXTERNAL
I urge the City Council to reduce the September 1 rent increase to NO MORE than 3% in concert with neighboring cities.

I also urge the City Council to support a November ballot measure to limit rent increases to no more than 3% annually. And to give the City Council emergency powers to control future increases as needed.

I personally live on a fixed income and have a chronic health issue.

This is very difficult for me to afford moving forward as this now would be built into my MAR.

It's just too much along with the cost of living that we're living with and can do nothing about.

Thank you,
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Lisa F. Frantz
310.880.5575
[email protected]
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Subject: FW: Item 11-b Proposed Ballot Measures
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 10:50 AM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: Item 11‐b Proposed Ballot Measures

EXTERNAL
This increase will stop me from getting meds. Or food I’m retired and live on a fixed income Please reconciter this rent increase!
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From: Council Mailbox
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:48 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Item 11-B Proposed Ballot Measures
From: John O'Connor <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 12:25 AM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: Item 11‐B Proposed Ballot Measures

EXTERNAL
Hi there,
Please reduce the September 1st rent increase to no more than 3%.

Please be sure to limit rent increases to 3% per year.

A rent increase of 6% would have a big impact (negative impact) at a time when there are so many other increasing costs, like gasoline and I am expecting power.

Thank you for your time, attention and service!
John O’Connor
415 San Vicente Blvd. #2
Santa Monica, CA 90402
310‐612‐4118
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From: Council Mailbox
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:48 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Item 22-B Proposed Ballot Measures
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From: naomi blum <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 12:39 AM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: Item 22‐B Proposed Ballot Measures

EXTERNAL
I am writing this for my neighbor, Harriet Radner, age 82, in Apt. 205, 938 4th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90403. “A 6% Rent Increase” would personally impact her economic circumstances.” She is Disabled, & paying for a weekly Caregiver.

Naomi Blum, LCSW
938 4th Street, #306
Santa Monica, CA. 90403
213‐448‐3820
7/10/22
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From: Council Mailbox
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:48 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Item 12-B Proposed Ballot Measures
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From: naomi blum <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 1:27 AM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: Item 12‐B Proposed Ballot Measures

EXTERNAL
A 6% rent increase would personally impact my economic circumstances. At 78 years old, I live on Social Security, & work 1‐3 hours weekly, as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker/Psychotherapist. I have No Retirement.

I would like to see, in these financially pressing times, a Rental Fee, no more than 3%.

Thank you for “Considering this proposal.”
Naomi Blum, LCSW
938 4th Street, #306
Santa Monica, CA. 90403
213‐448‐3720
[email protected]
7/11/22
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Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:48 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Item 11-B Proposed Ballot Measure
From: rlshipp <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 8:34 AM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: Item 11‐B Proposed Ballot Measure

EXTERNAL
Dear Council:

As a long‐time tenant in Santa Monica, I implore you to reverse the six percent increase to annual rent. This figure is significantly higher than the cap imposed by surrounding municipalities and fifty percent higher than the COLA I received recently from my employer.

Furthermore, this adjustment made to accommodate current economics will be borne by tenants long after the present set of circumstances.

Very truly yours,
Robert Shipp
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Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:48 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: 11-B proposed Ballot Measures
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From: Lisa Belzer <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2022 10:45 PM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: 11‐B proposed Ballot Measures

EXTERNAL
Hello,
I reside at 415 San Vicente Blvd Santa Monica. I am asking that the City Council reduce the September 1 increase to 3% and no more.

I am requesting the City Council to support the November ballot measure that would limit rent increases to no more than 3% annually. I also want to give the City Council emergency powers to control future increases.

I am a senior citizen and this 6% increase would cause a great financial hardship to me and to my family. I would be pushed out of my home by the high cost of housing.

Respectfully,
Lisa Rein Belzer
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From: Council Mailbox
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:49 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Item 11-B Proposed Ballot Measures
From: Judy Branfman <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2022 7:21 PM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]; Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]> Subject: Item 11‐B Proposed Ballot Measures

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To Santa Monica City Council,
I am writing about the unbelievable rent increase you are allowing – and to request that you:

1. Reduce the allowed September 1 rent increase to NO MORE than 3% as Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Culver City, and Inglewood have done.

2. Support a November 2022 ballot measure to limit rent increases to no more than 3% annually.

While Los Angeles froze rent increases during the pandemic, Santa Monica did not. To continue to allow rents to go up and up while people are still getting covid and struggling to make a living, seems to indicate you don’t really care about the many tenants living in Santa Monica.

I urge you to consider all the residents of Santa Monica – and do everything in your power to limit the allowed rent increases to no more than 3%.

Thanks,
Judy Branfman
Santa Monica, CA
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From: Council Mailbox
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:51 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Iten 11-B Proposed Ballot Measures
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From: Douglas Brian Martin <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2022 11:12 AM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Cc: Sue Himmelrich <[email protected]>; Christine Parra <[email protected]>; Phil Brock <[email protected]>; Oscar de la Torre <[email protected]>; Kristin McCowan <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Gleam Davis <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Subject: Iten 11‐B Proposed Ballot Measures

EXTERNAL
Dear Councilmembers,
The 6% rent increase proposed is unreasonable and wrong morally and ethically. Double the increases approved by other similar cities is not protecting citizens from greed and avarice ‐ it is encouragement to do so VIA THE CITY COUNCIL. This 6% increase is a handout to landlords at the expense of common decency.

You have the power and ability to stop this nonsense and protect renters ‐ please use both for good and please do so at once ‐ any more hesitation on your part will cause pain and suffering for seniors on fixed incomes as well as all renters who depend upon rent control to exist.

The flash inflation created by manipulated oil prices is evanescent and will collapse. Renters will be left paying the unreasonable increases in perpituity.

A 3% increase is less unreasonable and barely warranted as is yet would be better than 6%.

I am a senior citizen on a fixed income and making ends meet now is just manageable. With the 6% increase my living budget will be reduced inducing hardship.

Sincerely
Douglas Brian Martin
Santa Monica, CA 90402
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From: Council Mailbox
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:53 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: ITEM 11-B 7/12/22 COUNCIL MEETING
From: phillis dudick <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 9, 2022 9:58 PM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: ITEM 11‐B 7/12/22 COUNCIL MEETING

EXTERNAL

NOTE: This letter is from Mr. Bill Davids, Santa Monica Resident 7/10/22 __________________________________________________________ To: Mayor Sue Himmelrich and All City Councilmembers:

The 6% GA brings Santa Monica's rent regulated units to a socio-economic inflection point; a socioeconomic moment of truth: those who are fortunate enough to absorb the shock of the increase and those who cannot, ultimately being forced from their apartments.

The 6% increase will cause the City to, inevitably, careen into the proverbial "Tale of Two Cities". On the one hand, a city of the economically privileged and on the other, a city of the very low income aided by government programs.

The demographic damage will be inflicted upon long-term senior renters who are penalized by the POD Program for creating an economic cushion for themselves in retirement.

Unlike other nearby rent regulated jurisdictions that protects its renters in a "common sense" and "collaborative approach" in troubled times, our Rent Control Charter's current "flawed" and "inflexible" formula for General Adjustments puts far too many renters at economic risk and hardship.

City Council must take the following steps and measures to prevent the upending of its rent regulated population:

1. Declare an "economic emergency" giving "emergency powers" to "override" and "downgrade" the September 6% rent increase to no more than 3%.

Councilmembers must be mindful that rent is only one among many other rapidly accelerating costs faced by Santa Monica renters. Any "rent over payments" during this period must be returned to renters.

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2 2. Amend the Rent Control Charter to provide the tools and latitude to better reflect distressed times and "realities". The GA cap should never be allowed to rise above 3% and should be kept below that whenever feasible.

3. Revise the POD Program making it more expansive. Long-term seniors are currently penalized for having any kind of emergency cushion.

Unlike Federal and California tax code that "does not" treat held assets as "income", unless they "produce" income, the POD Program treats held assets as income -- even in instances when they produce little or no appreciable income. THIS MUST CHANGE.

Thank you, in advance, for your attention and action.

Sincerely,
Bill Davids
San Vicente Resident
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From: phillis dudick <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 4:01 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Fwd: 7/12 MEETING ITEMS 1 & 11-B

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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Forwarded message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
From: phillis dudick <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 10:43 PM
Subject: 7/12 MEETING ITEMS 1 & 11‐B
To: <[email protected]>
Honorable Mayor Himmelrich and City Council Members:

Thank you.

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2 Sincerely,
Phillis Dudick
San Vicente Resident
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From: Evelina Curtis <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 4:57 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Item 11B

EXTERNAL
Please consider capping rent control unit rent increases to 3% rather than the recently approved rate of 6%. Employers are not giving out a 6% cost of living adjustment to salaries so where will people get the money to pay for this rent increase?
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From: Council Mailbox
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Item 11-B Proposed Ballot Measures
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 12:04:26 PM
From: Jennifer Ballesteros <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:52 AM
To: Council Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: Item 11-B Proposed Ballot Measures

EXTERNAL
Hello,
I am writing to urge City Council to:
- reduce the September 1 rent increase to no more than 3%, in concert with neighboring cities - support a November ballot measure to limit rent increases to no more than 3% annually My husband and I are fortunate to both make a good living in the tech industry, and even for us a 6% increase each year is very likely to push us out of the neighborhood. We have parents out of work after COVID who we are helping to support, and cost of living post-COVID, as you know, is higher than we've experienced in the past. We are looking to start a family in Santa Monica and would like for that to continue to be a viable option.

Thank you for your consideration,
Jennifer Ballesteros
132 San Vicente Blvd, Apt.C, Santa Monica, CA 90402
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From: Black Agenda-SM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: 11A
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 12:19:25 PM

EXTERNAL
Dear City Council,
We, The Santa Monica Black Agenda are in support of The Citizen's Tax Initiative. As stated, in multiple previous city council meetings regarding the housing element, the question has ALWAYS been, "Where do we get the funding from to build the units?". The Citizen's Tax Initiative is a viable solution. The initiative will provide desperately needed rental assistance, homelessness prevention and school funding, As our communities tighten their belts in an oncoming economic recession this initiative will serve as a ray of hope. Please uphold the commitment made on the May 24th city council meeting to affordable housing.Honor the voices of 10,000 Santa Monica Community members and support the Citizens Tax Initiative.

Remove the opposing measure benefiting developers and not supporting the needs of our community.

Thank you,
The Santa Monica Black Agenda
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From: Minh K. Luu
To: councilmtgitems; councilmtgitems
Subject: 3% Cap on rent increases. Voting Yes on item 11B Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 1:51:06 PM

EXTERNAL
Hello Commissioner on the Rent Control Board
Good Afternoon, my name is Minh Luu, I reside in 2627 5th street, Santa Monica Ca. 90405.

I am writing to express my concern with the inflation and how 6% increase is a lot with everything going up. I understand that currently the CPI is about 8%. I have not got a raise during this pandemic. I live in SM because it's beautiful and the rent control in place. As a renter, I impose a 3% cap on rent increase. I am a hard working registered nurse for the county of Los Angeles. We are underpaid despite what people think. This inflation is hurting us all. I would vote Yes on Item 11B to impose a 3% cap on Rent increases.

Minh K. Luu
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To: Santa Monica City Council
Re: Santa Monica City Council July 12, 2022 Agenda Item 11.B - SUPPORT Dear Mayor Himmelrich and City Council Members,
Inclusive Santa Monica (ISM) is a coalition of organizations and individuals committed to an inclusive and equitable Santa Monica. Our principles include support for equitable access to the resources and opportunities that our City has to offer. We also support affirmatively furthering fair housing, including addressing segregation and undoing the current effects of historic redlining.

We urge you to support the Charter Amendment requested by the Rent Control Board and also to take immediate action to avert a 6% rent increase to all rent-controlled tenants by supporting a further Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%.

With CPI rising above 8% – the largest annual increase for 40 years – tenants in rent-controlled units are about to face the maximum allowable rent increase of 6%. For our city’s low-income tenants, who have already faced high gas and grocery prices without enjoying a commensurate increase in wages, a rent hike like this would be devastating.

It’s well documented that when rents in cities surpass 32% of people's paychecks, homelessness begins to skyrocket. Three out of ten renter households in Santa Monica already pay more than 30% of their income on housing. Two in ten pay more than 50%.

For this reason, we support placing an amendment to the City Charter that lowers the maximum allowable rent adjustment from 6% to 3%. And we urge you to do everything within your power to limit rent increases on rent-controlled units to 3% in the intervening time before such an amendment can be voted on in November.

Santa Monica has long been a leader in protecting the welfare of renters and taking steps to maintain the diversity of its community. But other cities, like Oakland, have already acted, enacting a 3% permanent cap on rent increases for rent-controlled units this year.

We appreciate your careful consideration and once again urge you to support Agenda Item

11.B, as well as a further Charter Amendment to lower the General Adjustment cap to 3%.

Sincerely,
Inclusive Santa Monica Steering Committee
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From: K Cass <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 5:19 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Rent Control vote

EXTERNAL
PLEASE Vote Yes on item 11B to impose 3% Cap on Rent increases.

Thank you!
Kathy, Phil and Bailey Cass
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Kathy Cass MA, BC-DMT, C-IAYT, C-AHC
Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy
Ayurvedic Health Counseling
Dance/Movement Therapy
www.kathycass.com
424-291-1803
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From: Linda Call <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 4:43 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Vote 11B

EXTERNAL
Please vote YES on item 11B to impose 3% Cap on Rent increases. Recent increase is too high especially for those of us on fixed low income! Thank you.

Linda Call
511 Hill St
SM 90405
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From: Clerk Mailbox
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 4:06 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: Tonight meeting - 911 protect Renters and reduce the control increase !!! From: ALEX MADDALOSSO <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 3:52 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: Clerk Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: Fwd: Tonight meeting ‐ 911 protect Renters and reduce the control increase !!!

EXTERNAL
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From: ALEX MADDALOSSO <[email protected]>
Date: July 12, 2022 at 3:51:15 PM PDT
To: [email protected], Gleam Davis <[email protected]>, [email protected], "sue.himmelrich" <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Tonight meeting ‐ 911 protect Renters and reduce the control increase !!! Dear City Council Members,
I'm a single mom of 2 children with 100% legal and physical custody, they are headed to Santa Monica High School, I am a long‐time resident of Santa Monica most recently living in a rent controlled apartment. I have suffered financially since the pandemic and have taken decreases in income. My company is suffering has laid off over 100 employees over the last year due to the pandemic and loss of access to accounts.

Combined with current inflation and upcoming expenses if having 2 children in high school, I am unable to afford a 6% increase in my rent. Part of the reason k loved to rent control was to try to stabilize my expenses since I am raising two children alone. I'm extremely 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!
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2 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 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%.

I appreciate your consideration of this matter.

Sincerely,
Alex
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From: Clerk Mailbox
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 4:06 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: FW: For tonight’s meeting - protect renters from 6% increase please From: Jennifer Kashdan <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 3:55 PM
To: Clerk Mailbox <[email protected]>
Subject: For tonight’s meeting ‐ protect renters from 6% increase please

EXTERNAL
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 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%.

I appreciate your consideration of this matter.

Sincerely,
‐‐
Jennifer Kashdan
1044 12th Street, 90403
323‐314‐0805
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From: Sovanchan Sorn <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 2:36 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: YES VOTE - ITEM 11B: Cap on Rent Increase

EXTERNAL
Dear Council Members,
Please accept this email as my YES vote count for ITEM 11B to impose a 3% cap on rent increase.

My husband and I both live and work in Santa Monica for the past 10 years. We recently got married and planned on growing our family but are now worried we’d have to put that dream on hold. The 8% increase would drive us out of our beautiful and diverse community in Santa Monica.

Warmly,
Sovanchan Sorn
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