PRINTER'S NO. 1445
No. 130 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY DeLUCA, BLAUM, CORRIGAN, MELIO, CIVERA, BARRAR,
CLYMER, M. COHEN, COSTA, DALEY, FAIRCHILD, FICHTER, GEIST,
GEORGE, HENNESSEY, HERSHEY, HORSEY, JAMES, JOSEPHS, KIRKLAND,
LAUGHLIN, MARKOSEK, ORIE, PESCI, PRESTON, READSHAW, ROBERTS,
ROEBUCK, ROONEY, RUFFING, SOLOBAY, STABACK, SURRA, TANGRETTI,
TRELLO, WASHINGTON, WOJNAROSKI AND YOUNGBLOOD, APRIL 13, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, APRIL 13, 1999
A RESOLUTION
1 Memorializing Congress to urge the Department of Housing and
2 Urban Development to review any policies and procedures in
3 effect with regard to placing nonsenior citizens in senior
4 citizen housing.
5 WHEREAS, Senior citizen housing was originally designed to
6 provide adequate and safe housing for older citizens in an
7 environment where residents' interests and needs were held in
8 common; and
9 WHEREAS, Many senior citizens choose senior citizen housing
10 in order to live in a community setting around individuals of
11 common interest and common experiences while maintaining
12 independent living quarters; and
13 WHEREAS, Senior citizen housing was designed to provide our
14 older residents with affordable housing while ensuring them a
15 quality-of-life standard; and
16 WHEREAS, The Department of Housing and Urban Development has
17 begun placing nonsenior citizens in buildings originally
1 designed to house senior citizens; and
2 WHEREAS, These young individuals, while meeting certain
3 eligibility requirements for placement within these housing
4 complexes, do not maintain a lifestyle conducive to that of the
5 older residents in those same complexes; and
6 WHEREAS, Increased crime, noise and dangerous traffic
7 conditions are among the serious problems now seen in those
8 complexes where younger tenants are being placed; therefore be
9 it
10 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the
11 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania memorialize the Congress of the
12 United States to urge the Department of Housing and Urban
13 Development to carefully consider the needs of all residents of
14 a complex or building with respect to placing new tenants in
15 areas previously considered to be senior citizen housing; and be
16 it further
17 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to
18 the presiding officers of each house of Congress and to each
19 member of Congress from Pennsylvania.
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