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The finance Committee Meets this morning to discuss how this hearing comes at a time when americans are getting clobbered by climbing rent and home prices, key drivers of inflation. Data released last week shows rent increased in june at the fastest rate since 1986. Buying a home is getting more expensive. Many people that have modest incomes for big Student Loan Debt feel like the dream of homeownership has slipped out of the reach. The root causes the United States isnt building enough housing. The shortage is affecting citizens and cities all over america. For example, my hometown of portland the skyrocketing rent and of low supplies is also an issue in the central oregon, Southern Oregon and Eastern Oregon where they cant build enough housing fast enough to keep up with demand. I would be willing to bet we would be talking about a number of issues this morning and i would just like to raise a relatively new issue that deserves scrutiny and that is private equity firms with sophisti

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