A Mattapan landlord and a Boston city constable are suing the city and the head of its public health commission, a commission member and acting Mayor Kim Janey over the city’s latest eviction moratorium.
Somerville officials are seeking to extend their city’s eviction moratorium through the end of November, a request set to come before the Board of Health at a virtual meeting Thursday.
Landlords seeking to evict tenants will continue to face pandemic-era requirements when initiating cases, but no new eviction moratorium, under bills speedily making their way through Beacon Hill.
A bill before the legislature would bring the eviction moratorium roaring back to Massachusetts, but if state officials enforced existing law, none of this nonsense would be necessary.
Housing advocates around the country staked out courthouses and held rallies Wednesday, calling on the incoming Biden administration to extend and strengthen the current federal ban on evictions.
MassLandlords has read and analyzed 3,984 cases filed between Oct. 19, when the state eviction moratorium lifted, and Dec. 18, 2020. This is what we found.
A federal eviction moratorium still applies to Massachusetts residential real estate, but now that the different state moratorium is over, what do we know about the impact of such a policy? At first glance, it looks to have been unnecessary or even harmful.
Last week bought more welcome news from the multifamily sector, as another group of large landlords declared they would work with tenants behind on rent to avoid evictions. But don’t confuse them with anything more than a band-aid.
Housing activists marched to Gov. Charlie Baker’s home in Swampscott on Wednesday to call on him to support more robust protections against evictions and foreclosures during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Real estate industry members should be cautious about drawing broad conclusions from current disruptions in the Greater Boston apartment market.
If Gov. Charlie Baker does not extend the state’s own eviction moratorium, as he has hinted, it will expire on Oct.17, in which case the CDC order would take its place. But the two measures are different in several important ways.
The Joint Committee on Housing voted along party lines Wednesday to recommend a bill that would halt evictions and freeze rents until a year after Gov. Charlie Baker lifts the COVID-19 state of emergency.
Gov. Charlie Baker has signaled he won’t extend the state’s eviction ban a second time past its Oct. 17 expiration date.
Critics call it everything from an empty stall tactic to an outright political ploy. The measure would forbid landlords from evicting anyone for failure to pay rent, providing the renter meets four criteria. The order comes as many local and state eviction bans are set to expire.
The Trump administration has issued a directive halting the eviction of certain renters though the end of 2020 to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, but the action has met a mixed reception among both housing advocates and real estate industry groups.
A lawsuit seeking to end the state’s eviction moratorium has been denied a preliminary injunction by a Suffolk Superior Court judge.
MassLandlords members plan to sue the state to force action – not on ending the eviction freeze, but on making sure landlords get reasonable compensation for housing tenants who can’t pay rent.
A federal judge in Boston on Monday denied the attorney general’s request to let the state courts decide a challenge to the COVID-19 moratorium on evictions and foreclosures, concluding that the time sensitivity of the case and nature of the challenges under the federal Constitution warrant a decision.
President Donald Trump is on an honesty kick with his latest executive order on evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Legislature’s Housing Committee is launching a public feedback period on a proposal that would keep a mandatory pause on virtually all evictions and foreclosures in place for at least a year.
