The Trump administration is swiftly remaking housing policy as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development retreats from long-established fair-housing protections for transgender people.
For the first time since 2018, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination recently initiated a complaint on its own and said this week that it hopes its action sends “a clear message” that discriminatory housing practices will not be tolerated here.
Attorney General Andrea Campbell announced Tuesday that she’s hiring the former faculty director of a prominent legal aid clinic to tackle housing discrimination and make sure Boston suburbs are complying with new transit-oriented zoning requirements.
Landlords and tenants will soon start seeing ads pop up in their social media feeds and in newspapers declaring that “voucher discrimination is illegal,” part of a new push aimed at reducing the frequency that people who use programs like Section 8 to pay part of their rent get discriminated against.
Real estate professionals now have myriad new tools that can be used to assist in day-to-day business activities and help streamline work, leading to more effective agents.
Landlords of apartment buildings in Malden and Canton hired a Texas company to screen tenant applications automatically, prompting a pair of rejected tenants to file a court challenge.
Gentrification across Boston has created a significant shortage of affordable housing, in particular rentals that are too often beyond the reach of so many – especially young people of color.
Owners of a Fenway roominghouse under fire for discriminatory rental policies have hired Colliers to market the property, which is being sought for acquisition by a pair of affordable housing developers.
A new analysis of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data by the UMass Donahue Institute and the Massachusetts Community & Banking Council shows the toll high home prices are taking on the Bay State’s Black and Brown communities, and the importance of building more housing in Greater Boston.
The U.S. Senate has a historic opportunity in its hands to take a stand in favor of human rights by passing nation-wide fair housing protections for LGBTQ individuals. They cannot let the opportunity go to waste.
South Shore brokers affiliated with four local brokerages are facing significant fines after accusations by Attorney General Maura Healey’s office that they engaged in what her office characterized as “widespread” discrimination against prospective apartment tenants receiving public assistance.
Boston City Councilors Lydia Edwards and Matt O’Malley are calling for the city to establish its own fair housing testing program in the wake of a Suffolk University Law School report that found significant discrimination against prospective Black renters.
Following a report from Suffolk University Law School that found widespread racism among apartment brokers in Greater Boston, two of the state’s largest real estate agent trade groups are calling for changes.
Black renters in Greater Boston face enormous and widespread hurdles to viewing apartments and finding brokers who will work with them, researchers from Suffolk University Law School and The Analysis Group found.
