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  • Date: 07/27/23
    First Name: Tricia
    Last Name: Keffer
    Email: destinimages@gmail.com
    Organization Type: fannie mae
    Organization: Homes Guarantee Campaign.

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    To whom it concerns,

    The bankers stole my $26,500 plus my time to build my home and join the professional class in the 2000s. They committed appraisal fraud and liar's loans which have now resulted in sky high houses prices and mortgages. How do I ever get a place to live again? The average rent anywhere in Florida starts at $2000. That's $24,000 a rent just for rent. I can assure you. No one in Florida pays people enough for rent, car, insurance, food, gas, etc. Due to age discrimination, from Landscape Architecture. I have start my own business again. I have student loan payments starting. I'm denied a state license which limits my scope of business practice.

    Enact the policy ideas from Mr. Reisch. Enact policy for the working classes. Otherwise, I predict Biden will have a very hard time getting elected. I'm tired of the vote for me because Trump is the bad guy. I'll write in another candidate if I have too.

    Give me my house back. Give me me my life back that I worked 4x harder for than anyone else. Florida isn't happy at the moment. The Dems need to step it up and enact policy to get the prices back to affordable rates.

    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,
    Ms. Tricia Keffer

    PS)
    A few more stats for your consideration -
    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.
    Nationally, median rent has surpassed $2,000 for the first time ever.
    In 2023, there is not a single state where a worker employed full-time at the federal minimum wage can afford a modest two-bedroom apartment.