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Human Rights Commission urges state action on housing protections, immigrant counsel access and sensitive-location policing bills
Summary
The Vermont Human Rights Commission recommended a state-funded rental subsidy, adding housing status to protected classes, state-funded counsel for civilly detained immigrants (bill ID not specified in testimony), and backing bills S208 and S209 to expand protections in sensitive locations and require officer identification.
Vague Hartman, executive director and general counsel for the Vermont Human Rights Commission, used the committee appearance to outline policy recommendations from a statewide summit the commission organized to strengthen civil-rights protections at the state level.
On housing, Hartman said advocates recommended creating a state-funded rental subsidy to offset frozen or shrinking federal Section 8 resources and urged adding housing status as a legally protected category so people cannot be discriminated against because of their housing situation. He described inclusionary zoning as a local…
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