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  • Date: 06/11/23
    First Name: Sedonami
    Last Name: Agosa
    Email: sedagosa@gmail.com
    Organization Type: other
    Organization: Youth Alliance for Housing

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    Hi My name is Sed and I am a tenant living in Brooklyn, New York. I am a member of the Homes Guarantee Campaign.

    The rent is being hiked for many of the people in my building, many of which are families that have lived here for a very long time and creating space for people who have never lived here.

    The rent is too damn high. The Federal Housing Finance Agency should protect tenants by limiting annual rent hikes to 1.5 times the Consumer Price Index or 3%, whichever is lower, in properties with federally backed mortgages. These limits should be applied to all federally backed mortgage programs.

    In addition to limits on rent hikes, the FHFA should prohibit evictions without good cause, ban source of income discrimination, enforce and expand existing protections against discrimination, require safe and accessible housing conditions, create a landlord registry, require fair and standardized leases, ensure tenants have the right to organize, and create an Office of Tenant Protections to enforce these rights in all properties with federally backed mortgages.