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  • Date: 07/19/23
    First Name: Sanya
    Last Name: Bhartiya
    Email: lovger07@gmail.com
    Organization Type: other
    Organization: Not Me We

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    My name is Sanya and I am a resident living in Centennial, Colorado. I am a member of the Homes Guarantee Campaign.

    Affordable housing has been discussed as a crisis in every place I've lived in the United States. Landlords are raising rents at the highest rates in over 40 years. Median rents in the U.S. have risen nearly 20% in the last two years alone.

    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.

    Thank you for your consideration.

    Sincerely,
    Sanya