(617) 635-RENT(7368)
The Rental Housing Resource Center was created by Mayor Thomas M. Menino in 1995 to provide advice, information, and assistance to Boston landlords and tenants who have problems or questions about rental housing issues.

The Rental Housing Resource Center:

• Mediates housing-related disputes, free of charge. The RHRC has helped to resolve hundreds of landlord-tenant disputes in a non-threatening and non-partisan atmosphere.



• Provides information to landlords and tenants regarding their rights and responsibilities under the law, and answers questions on any rental housing matter.



• Administers a Safety-Net program, which provides income-eligible elderly or disabled tenants, who are living in formerly rent-controlled units, with a rent subsidy for up to 24 months.



• Assists eligible tenants who have lived in the same formerly rent-controlled units since November of 1994 in applying for Section 8 vouchers on the basis of loss of rent control.



• Publishes a free informational guide for landlords and tenants, entitled The Good Neighbors Handbook, which helps landlords and tenants understand and comply with the complex landlord/tenant laws. To view it online, click on "Good Neighbors Handbook" to the left.



• Educates landlords and tenants about rental housing matters through seminars and community meetings.