Office of the Tenant Advocate
Accountability for Housing Authorities Is Lacking
How We Advocate for Our Rights
This is a guide to legislative advocacy. You can write, send email, or phone. Use your own words and your own story and borrow from the suggestions here.
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Our Plan of Action
Advocacy is the art of creating new possibility
Transforming housing into safe, peaceful, respectful, supportive, healthy, and joyful communities for the poor, the elderly, and the disabled.—About
Transparent advocacy for the rights of tenants
This post will show how we work with our legislative partners, there is nothing to hide and the more people understand the process, the stronger our movement as we demonstrate how we do democracy. Beacon Hill is often criticized for a lack of transparency. Legislators are seen as under the influence of powerful forces that are never seen in the light of day. We of the Stop Bullying Coalition do advocate on policies and legislation, and we do so out in the open, transparently.
Testimony on H4138 the Affordable Homes Act
To the Honorable Chairs and Members of the Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures, and State Assets.
Greetings:
H4138 The Affordable Homes Act promises many benefits in housing. However, it fails to deal with the essential rights of tenants, suitable housing for all the homeless, and support for people who depend on personal care attendants. This is an appeal for the missing bills and on behalf of the invisible people.
The Nomads Need Accessible Housing
It is bitterly cold now as the nomads, women in their 70s and 80s, gather in their vans and cars in the department store parking lot on a bitterly cold night. The common thread in their stories is how they were forced out of their homes because their bodies could not tolerate smoking or other triggers of their asthma or multiple chemical sensitivity. Multiple chemical sensitivity is a condition in which the body’s immune and neurological systems cause symptoms similar to allergies, symptoms that can be disabling.
When do we want our rights? Now!
It’s now up to every one of us to tell Beacon Hill, We want our rights now!
Testimony on H3868, to establish a tenant advocate to protect tenant rights
Testimony of Jerry Halberstadt and others in favor of H3868, “An Act to create the office of the tenant advocate in the Office of the Attorney General,” prepared for the Joint Committee on the Judiciary, December 5, 2023
To the Honorable Chairs James B. Eldridge and Michael S. Day, Vice Chairs Lydia Edwards and Christine P. Barber and members of the Joint Committee on the Judiciary.
Greetings: