As President Joe Biden was making his reelection pitch to Black voters in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, his top appointee to the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Sandra Thompson, was 1,100 miles away meeting with tenant rights advocates to discuss the administration’s housing policies.
The meeting, three attendees told NOTUS, was a complete letdown.
The gathering took place inside the Trinity United Methodist Church in Kansas City, Missouri, featuring more than 40 tenant rights organizers; Thompson and some FHFA staff; the local congressman, Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, and some of his staff; and top executives from the home loan companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.