Regional Resources

Boston

• Receiver Appointed for Dorchester Property after 7 Year Legal Battle (Article July 2018)
• Dorchester Landlords Settle Section 8 Case (Article July 2018)
• Boston Globe’s 2014 Series on “Shadow Campus”
  • If you’re being inspected, you need to pass 105 CMR 410 “Minimum Standards of Fitness for Human Habitation”, aka the “State Sanitary Code”
  • Members can watch our video, “When a Housing Inspector Comes to Visit.”

Cambridge

• Airbnb ordinance proposed changes effective August 2017.
  
  

  Cambridge Airbnb ordinance draft August 2017

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• Final version linked from subletting
• Short Term Rental Guide
  
  

  Short Term Rental Guide

  1 file(s) 2.82 MB

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• Steps to a Building Permit
  
  

  Steps to a Building Permit

  1 file(s) 2.33 MB

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Springfield

• City of Springfield – Code Enforcement Tips
  
  

  City of Springfield - Code Enforcement Tips

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Worcester

• Building permits (PDF brochure)
• Councilor Morris Bergman: City of Worcester Resolution Against Rent Control? (video)
• Deleading Grants
• Energy Program (get up to a $3,000 rebate for the purchase of energy efficiency equipment, including furnaces, hot water heaters, insulation, and air sealing).  (PDF brochure)
• Pellet stove permits and fireplace inserts  (PDF brochure)
• Worcester County Sheriff brochures and processes
• AWARE Coalition for Accurate Worcester Assessments on Real Estate
• Pictures of Worcester (Free to use with attribution)
• Events for Worcester Property Owners Association
• Hundreds Attend Worcester Landlord Summit
• Worcester and Central Mass Updates for August 2016
• Foreclosure Statistics for the City of Worcester and Grant Programs(video)
• Worcester County Sheriff’s Department Speaking on Serving Notices(video)
• Worcester Housing Authority “Tough Love” Produces Results and Eye Rolling
• High Tech Crime Fighting in Worcester
• Worcester Housing Authority Joins Elite Few in Nation
• Worcester City Assessor William Ford on Assessments
• Stuart Loosemore on HDIP and the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce
• Worcester Healthy Homes Funding Overview(download)
• Worcester Civilian Academy Registration Form Fall 2016(download)
• Worcester Building Permits(download)
• Worcester County Sheriff(downloads)
• Worcester Deleading Grants(downloads)
• Worcester Permits for Pellet Stoves and Fireplace Inserts(download)
• Worcester Fair Housing Conference Agenda April 2014
• Assessments and form 38D by William Ford, Worcester City Assessor, February 2015 (video)

Past Presentations

• Worcester 2020-01-08