{"id":2690,"date":"2012-12-13T13:38:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T18:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ohr\/?page_id=2690"},"modified":"2024-05-10T10:33:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T14:33:03","slug":"resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ohr\/leases-rentingessentials\/resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Legal Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonbarlawyer.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Bar Association<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Boston Housing Court\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/orgs\/housing-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Housing Court<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Commonwealth Court For Renters and Landlords\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/ago\/consumer-resources\/consumer-information\/home-and-housing\/landlord-and-tenant-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Commonwealth of Massachusetts:\u00a0 Renters and Landlords<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslegalhelp.org\/housing\/private-housing\" title=\"Mass Legal Help Private Housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mass Legal Help Private Housing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Mass Law Tenants and Landlords\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/courts\/case-legal-res\/law-lib\/laws-by-subj\/about\/landlord.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Massachusetts Law Tenants and Landlords<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Small Claims\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/courts\/selfhelp\/small-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Small Claims<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Lawyer Referral Service<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonbarlawyer.org\/\" title=\"Boston Lawyer Referral Service\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lawyer Referral Service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massbar.org\/for-the-public\/need-a-lawyer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mass Bar Association<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tenants&#8217; Rights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"BOS:311\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofboston.gov\/311\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>BOS 311<\/strong> For non-emergency Boston city services<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Boston Fair Housing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofboston.gov\/fairhousing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Fair Housing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/ago\/consumer-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Massachusetts Attorney General\u2019s Office<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslegalhelp.org\/housing\/private-housing\" title=\"Mass Legal Help Private Housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mass Legal Help Private Housing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/portal.hud.gov\/hudportal\/HUD?src=\/program_offices\/fair_housing_equal_opp\" title=\"Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUD Fair Housing &amp; Equal Opportunity<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Consumer Rights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawguru.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Law Guru <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslegalservices.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mass Legal Services<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/cis\/cisidx.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Secretary of State <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/info-details\/about-mediation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">State of Massachusetts Complaint &amp; Mediation Services<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/portal.hud.gov\/hudportal\/HUD?src=\/states\/massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Discrimination<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Housing discrimination is illegal in Massachusetts. It is against the law to refuse housing to any individual on the basis of age, blindness, children, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, or receipt of public assistance. Owner occupied two family dwellings, owners may legally refuse to rent to anyone for any reason. If you feel that you have been refused housing because of discrimination you can find support from the legal services listed below.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it is not illegal to discriminate against students because of their age, nor is it illegal to refuse to rent to students in general.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Boston Fair Housing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofboston.gov\/fairhousing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Fair Housing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Mass Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/orgs\/office-of-consumer-affairs-and-business-regulation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Commonwealth of Massachusetts&#8217; Consumer Affairs &amp; Business Regulation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dlc-ma.org\/\" title=\"Disability Law Center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Disability Law Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbreb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greater Boston Real Estate Board<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/mcad\/\" title=\"Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/portal.hud.gov\/hudportal\/HUD?src=\/program_offices\/fair_housing_equal_opp\" title=\"Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUD Fair Housing &amp; Equal Opportunity<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/ai.ocelotbot.com\/embed\/standard\/a18e4a47-86a0-4c46-ad4d-677e7587d39e\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal Resources Boston Bar Association Boston Housing Court Commonwealth of Massachusetts:\u00a0 Renters and Landlords Mass Legal Help Private Housing Massachusetts Law Tenants and Landlords Small Claims Lawyer Referral Service Lawyer Referral Service Mass Bar Association Tenants&#8217; Rights BOS 311 For non-emergency Boston city services Boston Fair Housing Massachusetts Attorney General\u2019s Office Mass Legal Help Private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4212,"featured_media":0,"parent":1374,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ohr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ohr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ohr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ohr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ohr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2690"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ohr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5830,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ohr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2690\/revisions\/5830"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ohr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ohr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}