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  • Date: 08/01/23
    First Name: Felix
    Last Name: Evans
    Email: Evansfelix31@gmail.com
    Organization Type: N/A
    Organization: Eviction Response Network

  • Comment

    As a tenant in San Francisco CA, I am writing to you to urge you to take action to protect tenants from an increasingly unlivable and unaffordable housing market and world. The rent is far too 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. This is the most fair option to say the least.
    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. These are basic rights that tenants deserve.