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  • Date: 07/11/23
    First Name: Sagi
    Last Name: Rudnick
    Email: sagirudn@gmail.com
    Organization Type: other
    Organization: KC Tenants

  • Comment

    My name is Sagi and I am a tenant living in Kansas City Missouri. I support the Homes Guarantee Campaign.
    The rent is too damn high; my fiancée and I are dealing with an over 10% increase in rent with no property improvements. 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 with teeth to enforce these rights in all properties with federally backed mortgages. The abuses of landlord power ain’t right.