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File #: 22-1761    Version: 1
Type: Order Status: Approved
File created: 10/13/2022 In control: City Council
On agenda: 10/13/2022 Final action: 1/26/2023
Enactment date: 10/13/2022 Enactment #: 214433
Title: That the Chief of Police work with the Office of Housing Stability to submit a written report answering the questions contained within.
Sponsors: Willie Burnley Jr.
Indexes: Police, SPCD-Housing Stability

Agenda Summary

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That the Chief of Police work with the Office of Housing Stability to submit a written report answering the questions contained within.

 

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That the Chief of Police work with the Office of Housing Stability to submit a written report to this Council detailing (1) the number of fines issued under Somerville's nuisance control law in the last year, (2) how many of these, if any, were due to domestic violence situations, (3) how many times the "nuisance" statute was used as a justification for eviction in the available data, and (4) how many, if any, residents who were evicted as so-called "nuisances" were in unsafe household situations.