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  • Date: 07/31/23
    First Name: Emily
    Last Name: LaShelle
    Email: eglashelle@gmail.com
    Organization Type: other
    Organization: Bozeman Tenants United + Homes Guarantee Campaign

  • Comment

    My name is Emily and I am a tenant living in Bozeman Montana. I am a member of Bozeman Tenants United and the Homes Guarantee Campaign.

    My rent is too high. It increased this year and we still get no maintenance for our broken dishwasher, fence, light and crack in the door that lets out too much cold air in the winter.

    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,

    Emily