Apply applicant-selection standards equally and uniformly
Cambridge Code of Ordinances ch. 14.04City law
Landlords, sellers, and rental agents may use reasonable standards to select applicants only if they apply the standards equally and uniformly to all applicants.
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The source
… accommodate a person with a disability if the accommodation would not cause an undue hardship to the landlord viewing or purchasing a home applying for or obtaining a mortgage purchasing homeowners' or renters' insurance printing, publicizing or advertising housing in a discriminatory manner Under the law, 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. Tenant selection may be based on: an applicant's ability to pay the rent an applicant's ability to take care of the apartment and to respect the rights of others NOTE: there is an exemption for 2-family dwellings, when the owner lives there A person who believes he or she has been discriminated against in housing…
- Official law
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- Document
- D029, retrieved Oct 1, 2026
- Dates
- In force
- Status on Oct 1, 2026
- In force
What it depends on
- Covers
- Applies to housing transactions in Cambridge.
- Exemptions
- Two-family dwellings when the owner lives there.
- What you can do next
- Read the law at its official source
Audit trail
The model reads the law; code decides who it covers. The line between them stays visible.
Extracted by the model
What the model read from the source text, checked by code (the quote must appear word for word).
- Category
- Screening
- Requirement
- Landlords, sellers, and rental agents may use reasonable standards to select applicants only if they apply the standards equally and uniformly to all applicants.
- Key value
- none
- Effect
- protection_or_duty
- Quote found in source
- yes
- Confidence
- 90%
reasoning boundary
Decided by code
Deterministic: same rules, facts and date give the same answer.
- Jurisdiction: listed only for addresses whose state or legal city is MA-CAMBRIDGE.
- Dates: no effective date in the text; treated as in force.
- Coverage: tested against what the building is used for, whether the owner lives in the building; a missing fact gives "unknown", never a guess.
As of Oct 1, 2026Engine run
Sources retrieved Oct 1, 2026.
Which buildings it reaches
All 110 sample addresses in Massachusetts on Oct 1, 2026.
- 50 applies
- 60 not covered
Every dot is the rule engine’s result for that address. The larger dots are the example addresses listed below. 6 addresses have no coordinates and are counted but not drawn.
Decided by code for the example addresses
On Oct 1, 2026. Rules that don’t apply are left out.
- 134 Oxford St, Cambridge: Applies. Cambridge Code of Ordinances ch. 14.04 covers this address: apartment building (use code 111 '4-8-UNIT-APT').