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  • Date: 07/25/23
    First Name: Rickert
    Last Name: Tuck
    Email: rickertt@tampabay.rr.com
    Organization Type: N/A
    Organization: My Home

  • Comment

    My name is Rickert and I am a tenant living in Oldsmar. I am a member of the Homes Guarantee Campaign.

    [[SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE— Has your rent been hiked? If so, how much? How did this impact you? Did you have to start working additional hours or jobs? What are the main challenges to finding and keeping affordable housing for you? Has your landlord filed an eviction? If so, how did they notify you? How did the eviction impact you?]

    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,
    [INERT FIRST NAME]