I'm 79 years old. I live on a fixed income. I lived here for 13 years and since and I'm

devastated, my rent has doubled. I don't know what I'm going to do.

The raise rent on a senior is 300 bucks and promised them that they would raise the rent

every year and then they said, if you can't deal with this, you should leave.

I really hope that our government is able to hear our cries and our pleas and just help

us for once and for all. It's just gone out of control.

Paying rent every month is a struggle for millions of Americans. One of them is to

be to gatewood. Yeah, everybody that I've spoken with is dealing with the same issues.

Paying double, triple the rent or just saying, you know, I can't afford the rent period.

She's a renter and organizer for tenants in Lexington, Kentucky.

I don't know how I'm going to be able to afford my medication that I need and take care of

my rent. It's either or and it should never have to be that way.

Foreign rent prices are just one of the effects the pandemic has had on the U.S. economy

and it's a problem that President Biden is trying to address.

Last week his administration announced new initiatives aimed at protecting renters

across the country.

Rachel Seagull is a reporter here at the post and has been covering the Biden administration's

new plan to help tenants.

Biden on the campaign trail and earlier phases of the Biden administration have made

a point around more equitable housing under the umbrella of a more equitable economy.

Housing, whether you rent or you own, is one of the main ways that you might interact

with or feel the economy in your daily life.

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