A pilot program in Boston will allow families facing eviction to access free legal representation in housing court. The Access to Counsel Pilot Program, announced Tuesday by the city’s Office of ...

An effort to convert vacant office space into nearly 200 new units of housing in downtown Boston has received a $7.4 million ...

This site offers free guided interviews that will help you fill out court forms based on the answers you provide. There are forms to request an interpreter, request a temporary restraining order ...

Sen. Lydia Edwards gives remarks about the new eviction record sealing law outside Eastern Housing Court in Boston on May 5, 2025. A new law went into effect on Monday that allows Massachusetts ...

Brooke Courthouse in downtown Boston, where the Eastern Housing Court is located. “And then we just went through it together, and then filed it,” the East Boston Democrat, who co-chaired the ...

The city found roach infestations, mice droppings and peeling paint across units, according to records filed in court. Boston Housing Authority administrator Kenzie Bok said addressing maintenance ...

But blaming the Boston’s school-integration crisis entirely on racism fails to acknowledge how the Boston Housing Authority ... led to the racialized school assignments that a federal court eventually ...

The Supreme Judicial Court ruling in the Milton lawsuit ... victory in the state’s push to tackle a housing shortage that has made Greater Boston one of the most expensive places to live in ...

BOSTON - The controversial MBTA Communities Law is constitutional, the highest court in Massachusetts ruled Wednesday. But for now, the Supreme Judicial Court says the housing guidelines issued to ...

LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc., Pennrose and the City of Boston—alongside other project ... a tennis/pickleball court, four laundry facilities and controlled access. LGBTQ Senior Housing will also ...

Because the court also found that the state did ... ‘You can’t do this anymore,’” said Judi Barrett, a housing consultant south of Boston who supports the law. Restrictive suburban zoning ...