Escamilla and Garcia: The Dismantling of Santa Ana’s Housing Opportunity Ordinance is Bad Policy and Bad Politics

COMMUNITY OPINION
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The Santa Ana City Council is abandoning the City’s commitment to affordable housing by gutting the Housing Opportunity Ordinance (HOO) at a time when rent-burdened residents struggle to pay rent. The City Council is granting millions of dollars in unnecessary handouts to developers instead of maximizing the public benefit of the City’s valuable land.