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Tenants and advocates urge passage of bill to prevent bullying in senior and disabled housing
Summary
Advocates, tenants and legislators told the committee that bullying, mobbing and harassment in public and subsidized housing harm residents’ health and that a bill creating prevention plans, training and a model response overseen by the attorney general’s office would fill an enforcement gap.
Senator Joan Lovely and a coalition of tenants, advocates and former commissioners described years of systemic harassment in state‑aided and public housing and urged the Joint Committee on Housing to advance legislation to require prevention and response plans for bullying and mobbing in elderly and disabled housing.
Senator Lovely (testifying earlier in the hearing as sponsor of S‑1007) and others told the committee the problem is widespread. Jerry Halberstadt, coordinator of the Stop…
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