Our sources report a ballot question, bill or measure on this that failed or was struck. It never became law, so it adds no rule here. Its text is not in our sources; the report is the only source.
Quotes are verbatim excerpts from the source documents.
State of MassachusettsApplies
Prohibition on local rent control
“No city or town may enact, maintain or enforce rent control of any kind, except that any city or town that accepts this chapter may adopt rent control regulation that provides…”
Quotes are verbatim excerpts from the source documents.
State of MassachusettsApplies
Limit on amounts charged at the start of a tenancy
“At or prior to the commencement of any tenancy, no lessor or agent of the lessor may require a tenant or prospective tenant to pay, to the lessor or to an agent of the lessor, any amount in excess of the following…”
Quotes are verbatim excerpts from the source documents.
State of MassachusettsApplies
Limit on amounts required at the start of a tenancy
“At or prior to the commencement of any tenancy, no lessor or agent of the lessor may require a tenant or prospective tenant to pay, to the lessor or to an agent of the lessor, any amount in excess of the following…”
Fee paid by the party that contracted with the broker
“Any fee shall only be paid by the party, lessor or tenant who originally engaged and entered into a contract with the licensed broker or salesperson.”
Quotes are verbatim excerpts from the source documents.
City of CambridgeApplies
Apply applicant-selection standards equally and uniformly
“…landlords, sellers and rental agents may use any reasonable standard to determine which applicants are selected, as long as that standard is applied equally and uniformly to all applicants.”
“(a) to refuse to rent or lease or sell or negotiate for sale or otherwise to deny to or withhold from any person or group of persons such accommodations because of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, which shall not include persons whose sexual orientation involves minor children as the sex object, age, genetic information, ancestry, or marital status of such person or persons or because such person is a veteran or member of the armed forces, or because such person is blind, or hearing impaired or has any other handicap…”