Save your Co-op Independence NOW!
Important Legislative Action Item for Massachusetts residents
Please contact the Members of the Conference Budget Committee to oppose Senate Amendment #8 on Coop Housing as soon as possible!
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. Unfortunately this legislation/language keeps resurfacing each legislative cycle and we need to stop it every time!
Sincerely,
Kathleen Bitetti
Artist & Co-founder of ArtistsUndertheDome.org and MALC
In the past few years, the artists community and others have expressed concerns about legislative proposals to impose new requirements on housing cooperative governance and in particular, the burdens these requirements would place on limited equity coops, artists coops and other coops that serve lower income residents.
The Senate Budget bill included an amendment (#8) that would impose new requirements on cooperative housing boards and members.
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Talking points that you can say or write when you contact them:
Dear——
I am urging that the Conference Budget Committee does not include Senate Budget Amendment #8 or any coop language in the budget.
Please be aware that housing cooperatives are already prohibited from discriminating under Chapter 151B. It is very unclear how this new language will impact limited equity coops and tenants in coops with low incomes.
Please oppose Senate Amendment Number 8 that adds a New Outside Section that changes the cooperative housing governing statute by adding new problematic requirements for cooperative housing boards and members. The State Budget is not the correct vehicle to pass such co-op policy that impacts so many in the artist community and beyond.
Thank you
(Your name and address etc.)
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