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  • Date: 07/24/23
    First Name: DyAnna
    Last Name: Grondahl
    Email: dyanna@takeactionminnesota.org
    Organization Type: other
    Organization: TakeAction Minnesota

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    My name is DyAnna and I am a tenant living in Duluth, Minnesota. I am an organizer with TakeAction Minnesota, and I am a member of the Homes Guarantee Campaign.

    I experienced a rent hike this year, and I am so worried that it is going to happen next year (and again and again until I am priced out of my home). I can not sustain rent hikes like this in addition to paying my student loans, insurance, and all the other things. 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,
    DyAnna