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…”
Not legal advice: what published rules say, not a decision on your case.
When can they end my tenancy?
The rule covers almost every Boston rental. It doesn't cover hospitals, nursing homes and some short-stay non-profit homes, and our records can't tell those apart. Our sources have no Massachusetts rule requiring a reason the law allows to evict.
What we don’t know yet
An exception in the law’s text. Deliver tenant rights notice when ending tenancy: the rule has an exception our building records can’t check. The office below can tell you.
Quotes are verbatim excerpts from the source documents.
City of BostonMissing one fact
Deliver tenant rights notice when ending tenancy
“The Notice of Tenants’ Rights and Resources must be delivered at the same time as the Notice to Quit.”
Unknown whether Boston City Ordinances § 10-11.7 covers this address: depends on a condition in the text we can't check from the data ("in any hospital, skilled nursing facility or health facility…"); and on a condition in the text we can't check from the data ("in a non-profit facility whose primary purpose is providing short-term…").
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 BostonApplies
No blanket criminal-record denials; individual review
“…will not impose a blanket policy that denies housing to anyone with arrests and or convictions. Housing providers will consider applicants on a case-by-case basis.”
“(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…”