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  • Comment Detail

  • Date: 07/30/23
    First Name: Sophia66
    Last Name: Keller
    Email: keltiawind@gmail.com
    Organization Type: local government
    Organization: Coalition for Homelessness

  • Comment

    Stating the obvious can be challenging and uncomfortable. The steadily widening abyss between reasonable housing costs and the horrifying excesses of current profiteering, accompanied by inhumane attitudes and defiant refusal to provide essential housing services such as necessary repairs, is disgraceful. The present housing market disregards all respectable business practices and makes no attempt even to conduct itself in a civilized manner. How shameful. Housing should never be viewed as a profit-making commodity. It is a public service and should b8e priced and managed as such. Tenants who can afford to rent i the first place must be 1) guaranteed proper repairs and maintenance, 2) provided with a minimum of 3 months' notice of possible increase in rent, 3) protected from eviction without a court hearing first without legal charges and 4) protected from harassment by dunning landlords. "Late" fees must be capped at $10 per incident AND "notice fees" must be ended. It is a landlord's job expectation to communicate with tenants without additional charges.