Rental Housing
Counseling
Allston Brighton
CDC provides information and assistance on your rights as a renter and help searching for affordable housing opportunities. Funding is provided by
the City of Boston.
We periodically provide workshops on tenant rights information.
For more information, contact Ian Dalley at x216. Click on the links below to download our Housing Services
Intake forms*:
 English
Español
Below is a list of additional rental housing and housing rights resources:
Tenant Rights Information
Bedbugs
Housing & Housing Search Information
Section 8 Information
Tenant Rights Information
City of Boston Rental Housing Resource Center
617-635-RENT (7368)
The Rental Housing Resource Center provides information to both Boston landlords and tenants who have questions about rental housing issues.
Good Neighbors Handbook
This publication by Boston's Rental Housing Resource Center provides an overview of rights and responsibilities for both landlord and tenant.
Handbook
of Landlord/Tenant Rights and Responsibilities
This publication by Action for Boston Community Development also provides an overview of tenant rights.
City
Life/Vida Urbana
617-524-3541
This Jamaica Plain-based organization has provided support to many tenant associations who have formed in order to preserve their homes.
The
Boston Tenant Coalition
617-423-8609
BTC is a policy organization supporting tenant rights and protections. Their website includes information on tenant rights and how to organize a tenant asssociation.
Boston
Inspectional Services (ISD)
617.635.5300
Bedbugs Information
ABCDC's Information Pamphlets on Bedbugs
Available in
Boston ISD's Protocol for Bedbugs
Bedbugger,
a NYC-based blog that covers bedbugs issues
Westmead Hospital, Australia: Bed Bug website
World
Health Organization: Bedbug Information
To report new sites with bedbug infestations, contact us
at the Allston Brighton CDC.
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Housing & Housing Search Information
Metropolitan
Boston Housing Partnership (MBHP)
617-859-0400 or 800-272-0990
Provides a resource room with information and listings
of market rate and subsidized apartments. Offers workshops on finding both market-rate and affordable housing. Administers
Section 8 and Mass. Rental Voucher Program subsidies in
the metropolitan region.
MassHousing
617-854-1000 or TDD: 617-854-1025
MassHousing is the state’s affordable housing bank.
MassHousing supports rental and home-ownership opportunities
for low- and moderate- income residents and provides loans
at rates below the conventional market value.
Section 8 Information
Citizens
Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA)
617-742-0820
CHAPA's mission is to encourage the production and preservation
of housing that is affordable to low-income families and
individuals through research and advocacy campaigns. Through
the Massachusetts Homeownership Collaborative, CHAPA provides
technical assistance and training to non-profit, homebuyer
counseling agencies that offer homebuyer education workshops
and individual homebuyer counseling.
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