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  • Date: 10/17/22
    First Name: Shonda
    Last Name: na
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    City: N/A
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    Number: RIN-2590-AB21

  • Comment

    Dear Director Thompson and FHFA team,

    My name is Shonda and I live in Las Vegas, Nevada. I’m writing in response to the FHFA Multifamily Enterprise Housing Goals Proposed Rule Comment Request: ‘Community Support Requirements, (No. 2022–N–11) Multifamily Enterprise Housing Goals Proposed Rule.

    My last apartment rent was $1261 for a year lease, when it came time for lease to renew, it was expected to raise to $1550 for another year lease. If I were to switch month to month it would be $2250 for a two bedroom. There were many times when the water was shut off and sometimes it would be turned on at the expected time for it to be turned back on. I have three kids and Nevada’s childcare is like paying a second rent. With losing my job while trying to findin Nevada has historically been known to have affordable living, however due to inflation it has become harder to maintain. I

    The rent is too damn high and I’m counting on FHFA to take every possible action to regulate rents for all properties with federally backed mortgages. If our public money is financing the business of making money on our homes, the least that you can do as a regulator is attach conditions to these resources that benefit the people. FHFA has successfully taken bold action in the past to help protect tenants during COVID-19 and to look out for residents of manufactured housing, and I am counting on FHFA to take similar action to help tenants like me during this time of intense economic hardship.

    I am a member of PLAN and a leader with the Homes Guarantee campaign. The Homes Guarantee campaign is led by over 52 tenant-led organizations from all corners of the country. We have a long term vision for a world where everyone has access to safe, sustainable and TRULY affordable housing. In the short term we are organizing to win an executive order on rent regulation from the President— see more here: https://damnhighrent.com

    Thank you for your attention to this matter. If you would like to get in touch with me, please contact Grace White, the Homes Guarantee Organizer at g.white@peoplesaction.org.
    Sincerely,
    Shonda