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With my own experience as a tenant and witnessing the experiences of others, I have seen all I need to know that there must be more effort on regulating the housing sector. With rising inflation, higher cost of living, and no increase in the minimum wage, many are left without the ability to afford their basic needs. Currently, tenants might suffer rent increases at a moments notice without any care for those tenants ability to survive. Human beings need housing as a necessity, just as much as they need food or water. Without regulatory restrictions on rent hikes, or guaranteed tenant rights (Ban source of income discrimination, Freedom from discrimination based on identity, Tenant right to organize, Landlord registry, Fair leases, Tenant-led Office of Tenant Protections), then millions of people will be left insecure in their housing. Millions of people won’t know if they can pay the rent next month and face losing their only housing. People will be put on the street, families will not be able to live in their home because the first of the month comes around and they cannot afford their living space anymore. There must be conditions to government-backed loans or the current housing crisis will only become worse.