Public Housing: State

The purpose of this booklet is to give tenants inpublic housing in Massachusetts answers to questions about leases. As a tenant, you have important rights under the law. You may have additional rights in your lease. These rights, however, have meaning only when you know and use them.

This Advocacy Tool explains tenants who are elderly or disabled and live in public, subsidized and voucher housing can lower their rent and maximize their SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits with their medical expenses.  

On August 26, 2016, the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) released proposed amendments to state public housing regulations. Comments were due October 5, 2016. Below are written comments submitted to DHCD from legal services and other organizations that work on public…

In this BHA proposed termination decision, the hearing officer determined: Multiple baggies in a bag with an ounce of marijuana is not grounds to find intent to distribute. Federal law still prohibits possession of marijuana, but the fact that MA has decriminalized an ounce or less…

Affirming that if aprogram participant's medical participation credits (sometimes known as flex credits or flexible credits) can be used only to purchase or offset the cost of health care coverage and are not convertible to cash, they are excluded from income.

Overview The Boston Housing Authority (“BHA”) submitted their Annual Public Housing Agency (“PHA”) Plan for the Fiscal Year (“FY”) 2012 to the Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) Department for approval pursuant the Public Housing Reform Act…

Listing published by DHCD.  Includes a breakdown of state family units, state elder/disabled units, federal units, Section 8s, and MRVPs by housing authority.  Also includes a breakdown of family public housing units by bedroom size. 

Prepared by the Harvard Graduate School of Design for CHAPA and MassNAHRO