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  • Date: 06/11/23
    First Name: Marissa
    Last Name: Campiz
    Email: campiz0140@hsforctea.org
    Organization Type: N/A
    Organization: Youth Alliance for Housing

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    My name is Marissa and I am a tenant living in New York City. I am a member of the Homes Guarantee Campaign.

    My landlord had put up rent prices so high, it had become difficult for my mother to pay an apartment on her own and it has been extremely difficult to keep up with other life expenses.

    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 universally as a requirement 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.

    Sincerely,
    Marissa