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  • Date: 07/04/23
    First Name: Blake
    Last Name: Nemec
    Email: claritycort@gmail.com
    Organization Type: N/A
    Organization: Independent

  • Comment

    My name is Blake Nemec and I am a City Colleges of ChicGo adjunct and tenant living in Chicago, Illinois. I am a member of the Homes Guarantee Campaign.
    Chicago rent prices increase more than 5% annually. My City Colleges wage increase is only 2% annually. Even though I work for a government agency, the government offers me no housing protection.
    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,
    Blake Nemec