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>> your organization, peoples action, he's proposing a national tenants bill of rights. what with this bill of rights entail, what does that look like? >> it's all about power, jonathan. so in today's housing market, the landlord has all the power over the tenant. and that's because there are no national eviction or any other tenant protections. so i'm a tenant in a state like missouri. and in missouri, this is one of the most tenant unfriendly states in the country, representative jones state may have more protections -- but that patchwork is really killing us. and it makes it so that a tenan...
State, new york, might have more protections. but that patchwork is really killing us. and the power dynamic makes it such that a tenant has to deal with conditions that no person should ever have to deal with in order to keep a roof over their head. so a national tenants bill of rights would address this by banning source of income discrimination, making it so that landlords don't get to discriminate against voucher holders. it would put controls on rent so that rents aren't hiked to unbelievable rates year after year after year. it would make it so that landlords can't evict for no cause. we...