Santa Ana is on track to pass a rent control ordinance that will restrict landlords from raising their rent more than 3 percent annually.
The 4–3 vote in the midnight hours of Sept. 21–22 wasn’t enough to pass the urgency ordinance—which would have taken effect prior to the end of the state’s eviction moratorium on Sept. 30—as more than a simple council majority would have been needed to pass it on the first reading.
