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  • Date: 07/22/23
    First Name: Evan
    Last Name: Smith
    Email: erwalter39@gmail.com
    Organization Type: other
    Organization: Homes Guarantee Campaign

  • Comment

    My name is Evan and I am a tenant living in Kanas City, Missouri.  I am a member of the Homes Guarantee Campaign.

    My rent is too damn high. Sometimes I go without necessities like groceries and medicine in order to make rent. People are dying because of unaffordable and unjust rent.

    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,