Housing and Utilities

Housing Resources

BostonHousing Authority (“BHA”)

• Tenant Grievance Procedure, http://www.bostonhousing.org/detpages/deptinfo78.html
• Tenant Request for Grievance Hearing, http://www.bostonhousing.org/pdfs/DGA2008GrievanceHearingRequestForm.pdf
• Applicant Request for Informal Hearing, http://www.bostonhousing.org/pdfs/DGA2008ReqInformalHearingForm.pdf

Public Housing

• BHA Admissions and Continued Occupancy Plan, http://www.bostonhousing.org/pdfs/OCC2009ACOP.pdf

Section 8 Voucher Program

• Federal regulations: 24 C.F.R Part 982
• BHA Leased Housing Division Administrative Plan for Section 8 Programs, http://www.bostonhousing.org/pdfs/LHS2009AdminPlan.pdf
• BHA Request for Informal hearing, http://www.bostonhousing.org/pdfs/DGA2008ReqInformalHearingSection8.pdf

MassachusettsRental Voucher Program (“MRVP”)

• State regulations: 760 C.M.R Part 49

Reasonable Accommodations

• Federal Law: Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 3601-3619; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794; Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Title II, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq.; Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d et seq.
• Federal Regulations: 24 C.F.R. Part 100 et seq; 24 C.F.R. Part 8; 28 C.F.R. Part 35; 24 C.F.R. Part 1
• State Law: M.G.L. c. 151B
• Boston Housing Authority Reasonable Accommodation Request Form, http://www.bostonhousing.org/pdfs/OCC2010RA%20Request.pdf
• Boston Housing Authority Certification of Need for Reasonable Accommodation, http://www.bostonhousing.org/pdfs/OCC2008RACertNeed.pdf
• Department of Housing & Community Development, Public Housing Notice: 2009-11, Reasonable Accommodations and Modifications in State-Aided Public Housing, http://www.mass.gov/Ehed/docs/dhcd/ph/publicnotices/09-11.pdf

Conditions

• Massachusetts Sanitary Code, 105 C.M.R. Part 410, http://www.mass.gov/Eeohhs2/docs/dph/regs/105cmr410.pdf
• Inspectional Services Department (Boston),           http://www.cityofboston.gov/isd/housing/

Emergency Assistance Shelter

• State Law: M.G.L. c. 23B § 30
• State Regulations: 106 C.M.R. Part 309
• Emergency Assistance Advocacy Guide, http://www.masslegalservices.org/system/files/EAGuide2010-complete.pdf

Domestic Violence and Housing

• Federal Law: Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005, 42 U.S.C. § 14043e et seq; 42 U.S.C. § 1437d; 42 U.S.C. §1437f
• BHA Violence Against Women Act Policy, http://www.bostonhousing.org/pdfs/OCC2009VAWA.pdf