Fair Housing Additional Resources
Gender Identity Guidance
Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (Revised December 5, 2016)
Are You a Victim of Housing Discrimination?
HUD Fair Housing Complaint Form
Creating Lead Safe Communities
a brochure from the Boston Initiative for Lead Safe Housing.
Fair Housing and Civil Right Information
from Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development
Discrimination Against Tenants Receiving Federal, State, or Local Housing Subsidies
an advisory from the Massachusetts Attorney General
Reasonable Accommodations Under the Fair Housing Act
joint statement from the U.S. departments of Justice and Housing and Urban Development
Fair Housing Fact Sheet for Realtors
from Massachusetts Attorney General
Know your rights: What to do if immigration agents (ICE) are at your door
by the American Civil Liberties Union.
For help with fair housing matter please contact the Fair Housing Project by email at fairhousing@metrohousingboston.org or call (617) 425-6681. You can also contact any of the resources listed below.
MA Commission Against Discrimination
One Ashburton Place
Rm. 601
Boston, MA 02108
Phone: (617) 994-6000
TTY: (617) 994-6196
Cambridge Human Rights Commission
51 Inman Street, 2nd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617) 349-4396
TTY: (617) 492-0235
www.cambridgema.gov/HRC
Boston Fair Housing Commission
1 City Hall Plaza
Boston, MA 0220
Phone: (617) 635.4408
www.cityofboston.gov/civilrights
HUD FHEO Region I
10 Causeway Street
Boston, MA 02222-1092
Phone: (617) 994-8300 or
(800) 827-5005
TTY: (617) 565-5453
Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston
59 Temple Place
#1105
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: (617) 399-0491
www.bostonfairhousing.org
Communities we serve
Metro Housing|Boston serves individuals and families, as well property owners, in 30 communities throughout Greater Boston.
- Arlington
- Bedford
- Belmont
- Boston
- Braintree
- Brookline
- Burlington
- Cambridge
- Chelsea
- Everett
- Lexington
- Lynn*
- Malden
- Medford
- Melrose
- Milton
- Newton
- North Reading
- Quincy
- Reading
- Revere
- Somerville
- Stoneham
- Wakefield
- Waltham
- Watertown
- Wilmington
- Winchester
- Winthrop
- Woburn
*Metro Housing|Boston does not administer RAFT, Voucher Programs, or HomeBASE assistance in Lynn. See Lynn Housing Authority.
*In addition to the 30 communities listed above, Metro Housing|Boston administers rental voucher programs in Holbrook, Randolph, and Weymouth. If you are specifically seeking RAFT assistance in those communities,
you must apply instead to Housing Solutions. (http://housingsolutionssema.org).