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.
Find my legislator
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You will see your representative and your senator. Click on their name links and you will see their email address and phone number.
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.
Community Support for Respect
Comments prepared for delivery at the November 14, 2024 gathering of the Anti-Hate, Anti-Bias Task Force of Middlesex DA Marian T. Ryan
Sticks, Stones, Gossip & Governance Part 2 of 2
Sticks, Stones, Gossip & Governance Part 1 of 2
In some housing authorities, the governance system is in turmoil. How can we remedy the breakdown in trust that affects everyone: tenants, the board, the executive director, the staff, and even the public? Can we find a way to create a more collaborative, transparent community and to value constructive input from everyone? This is Part 1; See Part 2
Let’s Stop Blaming Tenants
Report: Meeting with Secretary of Housing and Livable Communities
As leaders of the Stop Bullying Coalition advocating for the rights of tenants living in public and subsidized housing we have the honor of meeting and collaborating on policy with our legislators and high state officials in the Office of the Attorney General and with the new Secretary of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC).
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: