MassLandlords Submits Testimony in Support of RAFT Conditional on Public Records
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For the July 23, 2025, hearing on bills to codify RAFT (the state program of Rental Assistance for Families in Transition), MassLandlords filed testimony in support of RAFT, but only on the condition that RAFT recipients (property owners) and their properties be made a matter of public record. (Renters’ names would not be a public record.)
The actual testimony was a one-page letter to the joint committee on housing.
MassLandlords staff no longer support RAFT without a public records component. The program does not work in most cases as currently implemented, and cannot be changed without shining a light on this.
MassLandlords previously attempted to obtain these records to demonstrate, on one hand, rampant fraud and substandard conditions, and on the other hand, rampant discrimination against renters on the basis of race, family status, disability and national origin.
Read the full letter.
