Boston Citywide Rental Registry Geared Towards Helping Tenants
The new city ordinance requires all owners to register all rental units of more than six units.
A new Boston rental inspection ordinance will require all owners and landlords with more than six units to register in a citywide registry. Mayor Thomas Menino has pushed for the ordinance, which the city estimates will provide a proactive method for inspecting about 140,000 rental units, comprising more than 85 percent of Boston’s approximately 167,800 units. During the next five years, every unit under the ordinance will receive an approved inspection or be entered into an Inspectional Services-approved alternative compliance plan. More than 10 inspectors are expected to be hired, as the city plans on tackling units owned by landlords with a history of noncompliance in the first year of the program. The ordinance first had to be …
Mariposa
12:15 pm on Friday, December 7, 2012
Go after the offenders - they already have something in place - if there are so many calls and complaints to ISD or to the police - the landlord is fined! But to organize this whole reigstry is invasive and unnecessary! more ›