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  • Comment Detail

  • Date: 10/17/22
    First Name: Ann
    Last Name: Birdseye
    Organization: N/A
    City: N/A
    State: N/A
    Attachment: N/A
    Number: RIN-2590-AB21

  • Comment

    Dear Director Thompson and FHFA team,

    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.

    Housing prices in Charleston have gone through the roof. So many in our community are losing their housing as their leases expire and the rents increase immediately and exponentially. While some are able to find less costly housing (often also less safe or further from work) or move in with family, others are suddenly homeless

    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 during this time of intense economic hardship.